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Problem:
Project responds to life-course perspective in health, health disparities, and critical need for university-community collaborations to build leadership and community capacity. Focus is on partnerships and collaborations for training, technical assistance, continuing ed, research, and advocacy.
Goals and Objectives: Goal 1: To improve the health status of women, infants, children, youth and their families through training, service to the MCH community, research, and advocacy
Objective 1: Provide interdisciplinary graduate training to health professionals, public health professionals, and public health students that will instill the knowledge, skills, and relationships necessary to plan for, organize, and evaluate systems of care to mothers, children and families
Objective 2: Enhance our continuing education curriculum to support the professional development of the MCH workforce
Objective 3: Strengthen relationships for professional consultation and technical assistance with State, regional and local Title V agencies and other public and private MCH program
Methodology:
1. Train a minimum of 20 individuals for MCH leadership roles and provide a comprehensive education to 100 public health students in the field of MCH over five years. 2. Provide an interdisciplinary leadership curriculum that will serve both the professional needs of trainees and the needs of local, state, regional and national MCH communities. 3. Support the development of program faculty who will deliver interdisciplinary, competency based curriculum and mentoring, and who will expand curriculum, research and other academic activities of the program. 4. Facilitate the use and development of the MCH Data Center. 5. Conduct applied research and policy analysis. 6. Promote collaborative research between UCLA and local public health departments. 7. Disseminate findings of curricular and training innovations. 8. Enhance MCH advocacy training and advocacy research at UCLA. 9. Participate in direct advocacy through activity in professional organizations, policy development, and direct service.
Coordination:
a. Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health: mentorship, internships, leadership training activities, educational presentations to MCH students, membership on program Advisory Board. b. California Children’s Services: mentorship, internships, leadership training activities, membership on program Advisory Board. c. Los Angeles Unified School District: mentorhip, internships, leadership training activities, membership on program Advisory Board.
Evaluation:
The evaluation plan will use multiple methods, process and outcome indicators to assess achievement of CFHP objectives. Key elements assessed to evaluate the Program outcomes include curriculum and faculty development, student and alumni development, feedback from program participants, course evaluations, assessment of outreach activities, organizational development, and responsiveness of the Program activities to expressed community needs.
Experience to Date:
This fall we will initiate a joint fellowship with the Community Health Advocacy Training (CHAT) Program in Pediatric. One trainee is also a graduate of UCLA dentistry and will help to plan a new CHAT-Dentistry collaboration. These relationships have created opportunities in training, research, and advocacy. We will begin the development of a management curriculum based on an Anderson School of Management model. We successfully applied for an MCH pipeline grant to increase the presence of underrepresented undergraduates in MCH. The CFHP continues to be a leader in perinatal health, secruing funding for the Los Angeles Mommy and Baby Survey examining determinants of birth outcomes in Los Angeles (MCHB). Our academic and advocacy work continues to have a wide breadth, such as: National Survey of Early Childhood Health analysis and development of NSECH II; analysis of the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs; participation on advisory committee to National Survey of Children’s Health; participation in development of the 2005 California Health Interview Survey. Faculty has also been key in development of a delivery system for developmental services in Orange County, studying models of early childhood screening and services for children with special healthcare needs. CFHP has continued to strengthen collaborations with Title V agencies in continuing education, technical assistance and training at local and state levels.
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