Bringing Together Training Programs, Title V, and Families for Leadership Development University of North Carolina MCH Leadership Consortium Kathleen Rounds

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Bringing Together Training Programs, Title V, and
Families for Leadership DevelopmentUniversity of
North Carolina MCH Leadership ConsortiumKathleen
Rounds

• Collaborative Best Practice Models in MCH
  Education and Service
• Building Blocks 4 Promising Practice Models
• MCH Federal/State Partnership Meeting
• October 16, 2007
• Alexandria, Virginia

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Consortium Background

• Site visit by Maternal and Child Health Bureau to
  programs at UNC (Fall 2000)
• Five MCHB funded training programs came together
  to create Consortium
• Nutrition / School of Public Health
• Pediatric Dentistry
• Social Work
• MCH Department / School of Public Health
• LEND / Clinical Center for the Study of
  Development and Learning / School of Medicine

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Consortium Goals

• Develop and implement interdisciplinary
  leadership training for trainees and faculty
• Share faculty and program expertise and resources
  for training, research, and community-based
  initiatives
• Address funding issues pertinent to sustaining
  the Consortium
• Serve as a catalyst and coordinating body for
  increasing family participation and cultural
  competence within our UNC MCH training programs
  and our intensive leadership model
• Foster a shared understanding of maternal and
  child health, anchored in a public health,
  population-based perspective
• Evaluate the impact of the Consortiums
  interdisciplinary training

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Consortium Activities

• Sponsorship of a year long intensive
  interdisciplinary MCH leadership training for
  fellows and faculty
• Development of a cultural competence training
• Development of training and collaboration with
  the NC Title V program in family-centered
  practices
• Monthly meetings among Consortium members
  (faculty/Title V staff) to discuss MCH leadership
  development and research issues of mutual
  interest
• Develop opportunities for ongoing trainee,
  faculty/staff, Title V interaction in joint
  initiatives

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Academic / Title V Symmetry

• The vision and goals that under-grid the MCH
  Training Programs reflect those of Title V
• Both State Title V MCH Training programs have
  National Performance Measures (NPM)
• NPM 07 (Family Participation)
• NPM 11 (Cultural Competence)
• NPM 59 (Collaboration with Title V)

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Collaboration with Title V

• Training programs all had ongoing relationships
  with Title V
• Began Consortium Title V collaboration with
  focus on developing cultural competence training
• Jointly organized an initial training event
• National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
  workshop for Consortium faculty and students and
  Title V representatives (Spring, 2005)

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Collaboration with Title V the NC Family Council

• 2006 Title V representative attended Consortium
  meetings
• 2006-2007 ongoing meetings among Family Council,
  Title V, and Consortium to
• Discuss collaboration and involvement as members
  of Consortium
• Re-design Cultural Competence Workshop
• Design Family Centered Workshop
• Spring 2007 implemented Family Centered
  Workshop

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UNC MCH Leadership Consortium Curriculum

• Introductory SessionConsortium, MCHB, Title V
• Leadership Assessment Intensive (started 2002)
• Conflict Resolution Workshop (added 2003)
• Facilitation Workshop (added 2004)
• Cultural Competency Workshop (added 2005)
• UNC School of Public Health Minority Health
  Conference (added 2006)
• Family Centered Workshop (added 2007)
• Reflections on Leadership Development Session
• NC Family Council Title V involvement

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Plans for Ongoing Development

• Full participation of Family Council
  representatives in leadership training curriculum
• Ongoing attendance by Consortium faculty
  leadership trainee at Family Council meetings
• Continuous improvement of training curriculum
  based on trainee feedback
• Effects of Interdisciplinary Training on MCH
  Professionals, Organizations, and Systems 3 year
  evaluation study funded by MCHB
• http//www.sph.unc.edu/mch/unc_mch_leadership_cons
  ortium.html