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Plenary Sessions

Skills Building Sessions A: Saturday, March 1, 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Skills Building Sessions B: Sunday, March 2, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Skills Building Sessions C: Sunday, March 2, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Workshops D: Monday, March 3, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Workshops E: Monday, March 3, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Workshops F: Monday, March 3, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Workshops G: Tuesday, March 4, 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Workshops H: Tuesday, March 4, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Workshops I: Wednesday, March 5, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary Sessions

Opening Plenary Monday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Plenary Tuesday 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

• The Role of Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Achieving Health Equity, Quality and Safety

Closing Plenary Wednesday 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

• Making Data Count: Assuring That We Do Things Right and Do The Right Things

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Skills Building Session A Please Note: C5 will be held on 3/1/08 from 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Saturday, March 1, 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

• A1 - Effective Presentations: Teaching Through Stories (please note A1 runs from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

• A2 - NICHD Nurse Continuing Education Program on SIDS Risk Reduction

• A3 - Discovering Your Leadership Strengths to Become Effective and Empowered

• A4 - Using Mapping Software to Identify Barriers to Special Medical Services

• A5 - Data Records Linkage Training for MCH Professionals (A5 runs from 8AM - 5PM, see prerequisites for this session in the session description, attendance limited to 25 people)

• A6 - Making the Case for Care Coordination: New Tools for Understanding Care Coordination and Case Management in Medicaid and Title V (For Title V MCH and CSHCN Directors only)

• C5 - Making the Case for Care Coordination: New Tools for Understanding Care Coordination and Case Management in Medicaid and Title V (For Title V MCH and CSHCN Directors only. Please note C5 will be held on 3/1/08 from 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM)

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Skills Building Session B
Sunday, March 2, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• B1 - Title V: Investing in Families as Leaders

• B2 - The Business Case for Integrating Child Health Information Systems

• B3 - Moving from Disparity To Equity

• B4 - Making the Case for Care Coordination: New Tools for Understanding Care Coordination and Case Management in Medicaid and Title V (For Title V MCH and CSHCN Directors only

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Skills Building Session C
Sunday, March 2, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

• C2 - Parent Professional Partnerships Assuring an Integrated System

• C3 - Using Geographic Information System to Analyze MCH EPI Data (C3 runs from 8AM - 5PM, see prerequisites for this session in the session description, attendance limited to 25 people)

• C4 - MCH Leaders Coming to the Table for Public Health Informatics

• C6 - MCHB/Division of State and Community Health Block Grant Training: Providing Data to Tell the MCH Story

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Workshops D Please Note: D8 will now be held Wednesday, March 5, from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Monday, March 3, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

• D1 - Region of Residence as a Factor in Child Health Outcome

• D2 - The State of Play at the State Level: Findings of the Project THRIVE Indicator Review

• D3 - Family Liaisons as Partners on Community and Practice Teams

• D4 - MCH as Key Partners in Reducing Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries and Deaths Among Teens

• D5 - A Breastfeeding Outreach Campaign to Young African American Women

• D6 - The Family Nurse Care Coordination Partnership

• D7 - Iowa's Maternal and Child Health Data Capacity Assessment Project

• I6 - Healthy Weight in Women: The Importance of Collaboration (Please Note: I6 will now be held Monday, March 3, from 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM)

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Workshops E
Monday, March 3, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• E1 - A Research-Based Foundation for Building Your Breastfeeding Efforts

• E2 - Collaboration: Action That's Bigger than Words

• E3 - Health Literacy and Home Visitation: Early Research Findings

• E4 - Digital Storytelling: Addressing Barriers to Care for Depression

• E5 - Alaska's Newborn Screening Information Integration

• E6 - Using Public-Private Partnerships to Assist Special Populations

• E7 - Making a Positive Impact for Children with Special Health Care Needs through Cross Systems Care Coordination

• E8 - Your Voice in Congress: How AMCHP sets our Legislative Agenda

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Workshops F
Monday, March 3, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

• F1 - California Adolescent Sexual Health Workgroup: Collaboration Brings Unanticipated Benefits

• F2 - Integration of Non-Traditional Care within the Healthy Families America Program Model

• F3 - Improving Child Health through Statewide Improvement Partnerships

• F4 - Community-Based Care for Foster Care Children and Their Families

• F5 - Evidence-Based Practices for Organizing Family-Centered, Community-Based Services

• F6 - The National Healthy Start National Evaluation: Findings and Implications for the Future

• F7 - What Washington Wants to Hear: Explaining Your Programs to Congress

• F8 - Culturally Appropriate Social Marketing: Integrating State MCH and Tobacco Cessation Initiatives for Native American, African American and Latino Women of Reproductive Age.

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Workshops G
Tuesday, March 4, 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

• G1 - Understanding and Addressing Selected Urban Adolescent Health Disparities

• G2 - Youth Advisory Councils: Engaging Youth Through Celebratory Learning

• G3 - Quality Improvement Opportunities for Maternity Care: California's Innovative Approach

• G4 - The Perinatal Partnership: Integrating Prenatal Prevention Services with Early Childhood Intervention

• G5 - Creating State Data Sets to Address Health Disparities

• G6 - Partnerships to Improve Quality in Pediatric Care: Healthy Steps for Children

• G7 - Advocating in Your State: Why it Matters

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Workshops H
Tuesday, March 4, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• H1 - Brief Interventions and Treatment for Postpartum Women in a Diverse Population

• H2 - Maximizing Access to Genetic Services Using State and Federal Resources

• H3 - Strategies for System Change in Children's Mental Health

• H4 - A New Paradigm of Maternal Child Healthcare in the 21st Century: Centering Pregnancy

• H5 - Family Matters: Study Results on Health and Wellness for Children with Special Health Care Needs

• H6 - Responsible Partners - Responsible Fathers: Engaging Young Men in MCH

• H7 - The Social Injustices of War and their Impact on Maternal and Child Health

• H8 - The Family-Professional Partners Institute: Growing Family Leaders as Decision Makers

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Workshops I Please Note: I6 will now be held Monday, March 3, from 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Wednesday, March 5, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

• D8 - Promoting Safe Families: Integrating Family Violence Prevention, Assessment and Intervention into State-Level MCH Initiatives (Please Note: D8 will now be held Wednesday, March 5, from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM)

• I1 - Coordination Strategies to Support the EHDI 1-3-6 Service Delivery Goals

• I2 - Engaging Parents and The Community to Reduce Adolescent Reproductive Health Disparities

• I3 - The Family Opportunity Act's Medicaid Buy-in Option: Strategizing for State Action

• I4 - Improving Follow-Up to Newborn Hearing Screening by Working with the Medical Home

• I5 - Childbirth at a Crossroads: Politics and Public Policy

• I7 - Breaking the "Dusty Strategic Plan" Syndrome: Moving Planning to Action for Adolescent Health

• I8 - The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs: 2005-2006

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