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Annotation: These protocols for emergency medical technicians and hospital personnel in North Carolina provide guidelines for triage, transport, and treatment of children who have suffered traumatic injuries or have life threatening conditions. The protocols are grouped in two sections; the first contains prehospital paramedic protocols; and the second contains hospital treatment protocols. The first section also includes guidelines for transport. The individual protocols are presented as flow-charts with the critical procedures indicated for each step in caring for the child. Conditions include: multiple trauma, head trauma, newborn resuscitation, poisoning, and seizures, among others. [Partially funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Emergency medical services for children, Emergency medical technicians, Hospital emergency services, Hospital personnel, Injuries, North Carolina, Protocols, Resources for professionals, Therapeutics

Annotation: This brochure provides facts about sickle cell, including types of sickle cell disease and trait, common characteristics, less common complications, tips for the educator regarding meeting the needs of students with sickle cell and managing painful episodes. Tips are given for teachers, principals, guidance counselors, school nurses, physical education instructors and coaches,

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Resources for professionals, School health, Sickle cell disease

Annotation: This document provides tips on ways to include fitness breaks in school and resources available to help schools get started. Contents include ideas for classroom activity breaks, using music, suggestions for middle and high school students, tips on involving physical education teachers, and asking students to share their physical activity break ideas.

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Keywords: Academic achievement, Advocacy, Learning, Participation, Physical activity, Resources for professionals, School age children, School health, Schools, Students

Annotation: This Trainee Toolkit is designed to provide current and former trainees, training programs, and MCH stakeholders with online and downloadable resources in one convenient location. It contains links to comprehensive, easy-to-use web pages; downloadable resources to orient the reader to the Training Program; and a list of frequently used acronyms relevant to trainees.

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Keywords: Child health, Maternal health, Resources for professionals, Training programs

Annotation: This toolkit provides public health professionals with research-tested talking points, examples, and communication strategies to help build public health literacy in their communities. It addresses common knowledge gaps about what public health is, what public health workers do, and how public health activities benefit individuals and communities. The toolkit includes five "big ideas" about public health with corresponding talking points and examples, guidance on selecting effective examples that resonate with different audiences, tips for communicating in specific situations such as press conferences and community conversations, and a planning worksheet to help professionals prepare their communications. It emphasizes using consistent, clear language focused on how public health works at the community level, prevents illness and injury, serves local communities through professionals in various roles, and benefits everyone. Additional resources for inclusive and culturally relevant communication are included, along with recommendations for communicating during polarized times and public health emergencies.

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Keywords: Communication, Professional training, Public health, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This clinical checklist, presented in both video and text formats by a nurse practitioner, provides tips and guidance for healthcare teams and maternal and child health (MCH) professionals speaking with new parents about sex and intimacy after delivery. The resource explains how providers can improve the traditional six-week postpartum visit by addressing their own biases and using the recommended "B" assessment (covering Brain, Breasts, Belly, and Bottom) to gather necessary historical and mental health information. The checklist advocates for redefining the statement "you can resume sex" to be more inclusive and person-centered, discussing non-penetrative intimacy, and referring patients to experts like pelvic floor physical therapists. This Clinical Tool addresses important postpartum recovery topics including Mental Health/Hormones and Family Planning/Contraception, and also lists external resources for sexual wellness.

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Keywords: Contraception, Family planning, Guidelines, Postpartum care, Resources for professionals, Sexual behavior, Sexuality

Annotation: This toolkit provides resources for providers supporting pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and families related to doula care. It includes a description of doulas as non-medical professionals providing emotional, physical, and informational support before, during, and after childbirth. The toolkit outlines documentation and service recommendation requirements for doula services to be covered by Kansas Medicaid, including the types of licensed healthcare providers who can recommend doula services and acceptable methods for providing those recommendations. It also contains links to additional resources in English and Spanish aimed at reducing maternal and infant health inequities by increasing access to doula care.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Doulas, Kansas, Medicaid, Postpartum women, Pregnant women, Resources for professionals, State initiatives

Annotation: This toolkit provides home visiting programs with client education materials and implementation tools to support maternal warning signs education. This education covers the important signs of maternal complications that may occur during pregnancy and the year after delivery. The toolkit includes an illustrated handout and discussion guide available in 12 languages, a video available in English, Spanish and French, a magnet, and online training for home visitors with an implementation manual. The materials are designed for home visitors working with pregnant and postpartum clients to educate them about urgent maternal warning signs that require immediate medical attention. All digital resources are available through a shared Google Drive folder.

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Keywords: Home visits, Maternal mortality, Patient education materials, Prevention, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This web page from the Lifeline for Moms program at UMass Chan Medical School provides resources to help obstetric settings integrate perinatal mental health care into their everyday workflow. The main resource is an Overview Guide, available in two versions: a self-guided version and a remote support version that includes additional materials for virtual meetings with Lifeline for Moms consultants. The Guide includes assessment documents, tools for scheduling implementation and creating practice goals, workflow documents, screeners and scorers for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and self-harm, and resources for developing referral directories and patient handouts. The page also offers an Obstetric Care Clinician Packet with reference materials and patient handouts, as well as a 4-part online training module for obstetric care clinicians and staff. Individual files for each component of the Guide are available for download.

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Keywords: Mental health, Obstetrical care, Perinatal care, Resources for professionals, Service integration

Annotation: This Naloxone toolkit is designed for nurses, obstetrical providers, and pharmacists to address unintentional overdose, which is the leading cause of pregnancy-related death in Ohio, particularly in the postpartum period. Developed with input from patient partners, including those with lived experience with substance use and postpartum patients without such history, the toolkit aims to foster systems and culture change by integrating Naloxone education and access into postpartum discharge processes to prevent overdose-related maternal mortality. The resource provides guidance for clinicians on how to normalize conversations about Naloxone and offers a discussion guide, emphasizing the use of non-stigmatizing and person-first language to reduce stigma and increase patient comfort. Key sections include a toolkit implementation checklist for hospitals, educational points to cover with patients, an overview of the clinical pharmacology of Naloxone, and a detailed navigation guide for accessing free Naloxone kits in Ohio via mail-order, pharmacies, and distribution sites.

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Keywords: Drug abuse, Pharmacotherapy, Postpartum care, Resources for professionals, Substance abuse treatment

Annotation: This resource outlines best practices for equitable maternal care, addressing the disparities experienced by women of color, particularly given the near 40% increase in maternal mortality since 2020. It identifies both individual-level strategies, such as screening and documenting social needs and practicing empathy, and systemic efforts, including offering implicit bias training, integrating health equity into quality improvement processes, and diversifying the maternal care workforce. The resource features hospitals in action, describing programs like the HoPE Doula Program and the Swedish Doula Services Program, which integrate community-based doulas to provide continuous support, advocacy, and connection to resources for pregnant and postpartum families. Additionally, it details the University of Chicago’s STAMPP-HTN (Systematic Treatment and Management of Postpartum Hypertension) program, a quality improvement bundle utilizing nurse educators and remote blood pressure monitors to improve immediate postpartum care for women with hypertensive disorders, which successfully eliminated follow-up disparities among Black and White women.

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Keywords: Community based services, Doulas, Health care disparities, Health equity, Hypertension, Maternal health, Postpartum care, Quality improvement, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This systematic review examines the effects of cultural competence education for health professionals on patient-related outcomes, health professional outcomes, and healthcare organization outcomes. It included five randomized controlled trials involving 337 healthcare professionals and 8400 patients, with at least 3463 patients from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. The review found low-quality evidence showing some improvements in patient involvement in care and health behaviors, but no evidence of effect on treatment outcomes or most evaluations of care. The authors developed a four-dimensional conceptual framework comprising educational content, pedagogical approach, structure of the intervention, and participant characteristics to provide consistency in describing and assessing interventions. They conclude that while cultural competence education shows some promise as a strategy to address health inequities, more rigorous research with greater methodological uniformity is needed to establish its effectiveness.c

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Keywords: Cultural competency, Cultural diversity, Healthcare disparities, Minority groups, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This manual is designed to help non-oral-health professionals implement fluoride-varnish application for infants, children, and adolescents ages 6 months to 21 years who are enrolled in Massachusetts’ Medicaid program. The manual includes instructions on how to complete the online Smiles for Life training, which is required for health professionals to apply fluoride varnish for this population. It also discusses how to begin using fluoride varnish in a practice as well as how to keep fluoride varnish notes and how to bill for fluoride varnish application. Basic information about fluoride varnish application and information to share with parents and other caregivers is included.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Clinical coding, Consumer education materials, Dental caries, Disease prevention, Fluorides, Infants, Manuals, Massachusetts, Medicaid, Oral health, Oral health care, Preventive health services, Reimbursement, Resources for professionals, Risk assessment, State programs, Training, Young adults

Annotation: This resource guide is designed to help health professionals, program administrators, educators, and others understand the benefits of integrating oral health care into primary care and to provide information about how to implement oral health care integration in materials, programs, and systems of care. The guide describes materials, such as briefs, curricula, fact sheets, guidelines, manuals, papers, reports, and videos, that reflect current science and practice as well as seminal resources. Descriptions of and contact information for relevant organizations is also included. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: , Educational materials, Oral health, Primary care, Resources for professionals, Service integration

Annotation: This website describes nurtur, a digital health platform that uses artificial intelligence to predict and prevent postpartum depression in mothers. The platform works with Ob/Gyns to identify at-risk patients early in pregnancy and provides personalized self-guided therapy and ongoing support throughout the pregnancy journey. Using a three-phase approach across trimesters—discovery, prevention, and engagement—nurtur offers tools that have been proven to prevent over 50% of postpartum depression cases. The platform features a collaborative care model that integrates primary care providers, behavioral care managers, and psychiatric consultants, while being reimbursable through health insurance. In beta testing as of April 2025.

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Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Mobile Apps, Obstetrics, Patient education, Postpartum care, Postpartum depression, Prevention, Resources for professionals, Screening, Service integration, Telemedicine

Annotation: This toolkit provides links and brief descriptions of resources related to community water fluoridation. The toolkit is divided into the following categories: toolkits and communication resources, scientific research and public health evidence, professional and advocacy resources, supportive media coverage, countering misinformation and opposition, and case studies and testimonials.

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Keywords: Advocacy, Case studies, Communication, Evidence, Misinformation, Oral health, Public health, Research, Resources

Annotation: This toolkit for school oral health professionals offers resources to help improve children’s oral health. It includes materials about incorporating oral health into daily activities with students, resources to display, and content for newsletters or e-mails sent home to parents and other caregivers. Also included is information about finding oral health care for students, how to incorporate oral health in school activities, and where to source free toothbrushes and toothpaste. A selection of oral-health-related books for children is included.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Resources, School health, School health services

Annotation: This workbook provides guidance for implementing evidence-based practices to improve care for pregnant and postpartum individuals with cardiovascular disease (CVD). It summarizes the evidence on the significant risks of CVD in pregnancy, which can exacerbate pre-existing conditions or lead to new disorders due to the hemodynamic changes of pregnancy. The workbook presents data from Missouri's Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review, finding that CVD accounted for 30% of pregnancy-related deaths from 2017-2021, with most deemed preventable and Black women disproportionately impacted. To address this crisis, the AIM Cardiac Conditions in Obstetric Care patient safety bundle components are provided, with detailed strategies for implementing universal cardiac risk screening, rapid response protocols, cardio-obstetric teams, care coordination, patient education, and equity-focused data monitoring. Emphasis is placed on early recognition, diagnosis, and treatment to prevent complications and death. Resources and references are included for further training and implementation.

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Keywords: Cardiovascular diseases, Evidence-based medicine, Guidelines, Maternal morbidity, Maternal mortality, Missouri, Obstetrical complications, Perinatal care, Postpartum care, Prevention, Quality improvement, Resources for professionals, State initiatives

Annotation: This report provides information that state Medicaid agencies and their partners can use to improve maternal and infant health through their Medicaid programs, with particular attention on the Transforming Maternal Health Model (TMaH). The report contains three sections that correspond to core areas of maternal and infant health improvement: best practices, policy checklists, and resources.

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Keywords: Infant health, Maternal health, Medicaid programs, Public policy, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This resource guide features materials on policy; professional education, tools, and training; program development; and public education. Examples of materials include a report offering guiding principles that can help Head Start staff promote health literacy, a paper discussing challenges in integrating oral health care and primary care for populations with low health literacy, and a guide describing a program that encourages parents to have a nighttime routine that includes helping their young child brush their teeth and reading a book to their child before bed. A list of relevant organizations is included. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Consumer education, Health literacy, Oral health, Professional education, Program development, Resources for professionals, Training