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Annotation: These forms are a follow up survey of the former participants in the University Affiliated Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders training programs. Theyprovide space to record information about the participants and their comments and assessment of the program. One version is for former trainees with 300+ contact hours; the other is a modified version for trainees with 300+ contact hours who participated in the Interdisciplinary Leadership Core Curriculum since 1987-1988.

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Keywords: Developmental disabilities, Evaluation, MCH training, Surveys

Annotation: This document provides data related to several EPSDT studies in Iowa, Mississippi, New Jersey, Montana, Utah, Virginia, Louisiana, and California.

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Keywords: EPSDT, Program evaluation, State programs

Annotation: This document describes seven science-based approaches in adolescent pregnancy, HIV, and sexually transmitted infection prevention. Topics include assessment, health education and behavior change theory, logic models, science-based programs, adaptation and fidelity, characteristics of promising programs, and process and outcome evaluation. Additional topics include the benefits of using science-based approaches, ten steps for getting to outcomes, and training and technical assistance.

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Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy prevention, Assessment, Behavior modification, HIV, Health behavior, Health education, Methods, Models, Outcome evaluation, Prevention programs, Process evaluation, Sexually transmitted diseases

Annotation: This document for recipients of the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Discretionary Grant Program contains instructions and forms for submitting performance measure data. Contents include information about the goals, definitions, benchmark and grantee data sources, and significance for each measure by domain; instructions and forms for collecting budget and expenditure data and project abstract and summary data; and forms for tracking project performance and outcome measures.

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Keywords: Data collection, Federal grants, Forms, MCH programs, MCH research, MCH training, Measures, Outcome and process assessment, Program evaluation, Program improvement, Program planning, Progress reports

Annotation: This report provides information on a 5-year comprehensive program evaluation of Cavity Free at Three. The report offers background information on Cavity Free at Three as well as on the program’s infrastructure development. Methods related to the data-collection process and evaluation-question development are discussed, and results are presented for the following four areas: training data, pre/post data, technical assistance data, and impact data.

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Keywords: Data, Dental caries, Oral health, Prevention, Program development, Program evaluation, Young children

Annotation: This strategic framework for Montana presents the vision statement and core values and beliefs of the Montana Oral Health Network. Also discussed are strategic directions for the network; goals and objectives; prioritizing and sequencing implementation of strategies; monitoring progress and setbacks; and evaluation. Goals include achieving a cohesive and active oral health network of stakeholders, ensuring that oral health professionals and other health professionals understand and employ innovative and integrated care approaches, ensuring that Montanans understand the importance of oral health and use their knowledge to improve their oral health; and improving the provision of oral health care to those who are underserved.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Health education, Health education, Low income groups, Montana, Oral health, Prevention, Program evaluation, Service integration, State information

Annotation: This two-page report summarizes Oregon's accomplishments in the Children's Healthy Weight State Capacity Building Project. Oregon strengthened relationships with Tribal communities to support food sovereignty and focused on workforce development, data collection, and data use. Key achievements included developing an online Childhood Food Insecurity training module, mentoring student interns to create a Lactation Support Toolkit for home visitors, facilitating food preservation workshops in Tribal communities, and conducting a program evaluation of Title V breastfeeding and food insecurity priorities. The state team also worked to integrate nutrition across various programs and agencies, identified and compiled nutrition data sources, and engaged in cross-agency collaborations to update workplace breastfeeding policies.

Keywords: Child health, Evaluation, Health programs, Maternal health, Native Americans, Nutrition, Oregon , State initiatives, Title V programs

Annotation: This report presents key considerations for integrating oral health evaluation into prenatal care. Topics include completing an oral health evaluation, integrating oral health evaluation into the electronic medical record, integrating oral health evaluation into the prenatal care workflow, and strategies to increase primary care health professionals’ confidence in completing an oral health evaluation. The document also includes summaries of how prenatal clinics integrate oral health evaluation, as well as links to examples. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Evaluation, Oral health, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Primary care, Service integration

Annotation: This report provide information on dental and oral health service measures in the 2024 Child Core Set. The report offers background information on the Child Core Set and includes the following information about the 2024 set: measures steward, description, age, denominator, numerator, continuous enrollment allowable gap, anchor date, exclusions, data source, and codes needed to calculate the measure. This information is provided for the following measures: oral evaluation, dental services; topical fluoride for children; and sealant receipt on first molar. Additional information on the three measures is included.

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Keywords: Child health, Dental sealants, Fluoride, Measures, Medical evaluation, Oral health

Annotation: This brief provides a national summary of selected oral health care quality measures for children developed by the Dental Quality Alliance (DQA) and displayed in DQA's State Oral Healthcare Quality Dashboard. The brief offers information on the following selected measures: Oral Evaluation, Dental Services (by or under the supervision of a dentist); Topical Fluoride for Children; and Sealant Receipt on Permanent First Molars. Data is presented on these three measures for the period 2016–2020.

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Keywords: Data, Dental sealants, Fluoride, Health care utilization, Medical evaluation, Oral health

Annotation: This report spotlights five programs focused on integrating oral health care into primary care serving the maternal and child health population. Each spotlight includes an overview of the program; a description of its inception and early years; information about funding, notable strengths, notable evaluation activities, and evaluation methodology; select evaluation findings; and resources to learn more about evaluation. The report also describes key elements for individual program success and the challenges common across all programs that limit program success. Stand-alone spotlights of each program are also available. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Evaluation, Infants, Oral health, Pregnant women, Primary care, Service integration, Young children

Annotation: This toolkit provides guidance for healthcare organizations to assess and improve health equity among children with medical complexity (CMC) and their families in service delivery settings. It outlines an eight-step process for conducting health equity assessments at the patient level, emphasizing the importance of participatory approaches that involve caregivers, youth, families, providers, and community organizations. The toolkit addresses the unique challenges faced by CMC and their families, including social complexity factors such as poverty, housing instability, and transportation barriers that can impact their ability to navigate systems of care. Content is released on a rolling basis with ongoing updates to the roadmap and resources.

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Keywords: Assessment, Children with special health care needs, Evaluation methods, Health equity, Service delivery

Annotation: This online tool presents National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) indicators aligned with the Blueprint for Change--a national framework for a system of services for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). Developed through collaboration between the Altarum Institute and the National Center for a System of Services for CYSHCN, the tool arranges the indicators according to four critical areas as outlined in the Blueprint: health equity, family and child well-being and quality of life, access to services and supports, and financing of services. State/jurisdiction Title V programs are invited to use the tool to better understand how their work aligns with the Blueprint for Change and to monitor their progress during ongoing needs assessment activities. [Funded in part by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: , Adolescents with special health care needs, Children with special health care needs, Evaluation methods, Families, Federal initiatives, Indicators, Needs assessment

Annotation: This guide provides information for participants in Project ECHO, a case-based learning and community-of-practice model that supports oral health care, including specialty care, so that patients can receive care close to where they live. The guide provides background on the project, including its core principles, information on how it works, benefits for partners, its goals, the structure of an ECHO session, the curriculum, participant requirements, and the evaluation process. Information on case presentations and logistics is included.

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Keywords: Community based services, Community health services, Curriculum, Evaluation, Learning, Oral health

Annotation: This electronic resource defines the term "equity" and provides links to the following tools to promote and advance health equity in underserved communities: (1) Equity assessment tip sheet; (2) In-depth equity assessment guide; (3) Guide to advancing equity through quantitative analysis; (4) Guide on advancing equity by incorporating intersectionality in research and analysis; (5) Tips on equitable communication; (6) Tips on engaging diverse groups of external partners; and 7) Practices for meaningfully engaging people with lived experience. The target audience includes state and local governments, tribal governments, and other private or nonprofit organizations focused on programs and policies relating to health and human services.

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Keywords: Assessment, Ethnic factors, Evaluation, Facilitated communication , Health equity, Program planning, Racial factors, Underserved communities

Annotation: This manual provides information about school-linked oral health programs (programs that identify children who need oral health care and then coordinate care with a health professional in the community) for local oral health agencies in California. The manual offers background information about the California Dental Disease Prevention Program and presents a school-linked program model. The model covers selecting schools; programs' educational and outreach requirements; planning, including developing referral criteria, creating a network of dentists, using a referral-management and collection platform, and establishing performance measures; and developing protocols. Also discussed are referral management and care coordination and evaluation.

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Keywords: California, Care coordination, Community coordination, Community programs, Measures, Oral health, Pediatric dentistry, Program evaluation, Referrals, School dentistry, School health, State programs

Annotation: This framework is designed to prioritize equitable access to basic health information and services. It discusses why equity-centered health communication is important and presents three phases in making progress toward such communication. The phases include (1) understanding the issues, (2) co-creating accessible products, and (3) implementing health communication interventions.

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Keywords: Head Start, Health equity, Health literacy, Low income groups, Program development, Program evaluation, Young children

Annotation: This road map outlines how data can be used as a tool to help end structural racism. It consists of a collection of guiding questions, tools, and resources to assist programs in taking concrete steps to better identify, understand, and act to address racial inequities. The road map contains seven sections: (1) Looking at health issues with a focus on the impact of racism; (2) Determining if a program is ready to use data to address racism; (3) Understanding what the data says about differences in health outcomes by race and ethnicity; (4) Using other sources of data to uncover causes of the differences; (5) Making plans to act on differences that are unjust or avoidable; (6) Presenting data in ways that help people make sense of the numbers; and (7) Moving from data to action.

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Keywords: Data, Data analysis, Data collection, Data sources, Ethnic factors, Health equity, Massachusetts, Outcome evaluation, Racial factors, Racism, State initiatives

Annotation: This report provides an evaluation of the Utah Oral Health Program, Adolescent Oral Health Campaign for 2022–2023. Goals of the campaign were to increase adolescents' use of the oral health care system; increase the proportion of adolescents from families with low incomes who had a preventive dental visit; reduce the proportion of adolescents with active, untreated tooth decay; and reduce adolescents' use of smokeless tobacco products. The report provides an overview of the program and describes evaluation methods, presents key findings and outcomes, presents post-test questions measuring adolescents' intent and post-test qualitative questions, and discusses evaluation limitations.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Dental caries, Health care utilization, Low income groups, Oral health, Prevention, Program evaluation, Smokeless tobacco, State programs, Utah

Annotation: This issue brief highlights Action 1.4 from the White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis, which focuses on strengthening risk-appropriate care in rural and urban areas through implementation of the CDC Levels of Care Assessment Tool (LOCATe). The document examines how this standardized assessment tool helps states evaluate and improve the distribution of maternal care capabilities across birthing facilities. It presents current data on maternal mortality rates and disparities across populations, discusses the challenges of providing appropriate levels of care particularly in rural areas, and outlines specific state-level innovations being implemented to strengthen perinatal regionalization. The brief includes detailed examples of successful LOCATe implementation in states like Montana and North Carolina, along with evidence-based measures for tracking progress in establishing risk-appropriate care systems.

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Keywords: Access to care, Data, Evaluation methods, Perinatal addiction, Perinatal care, Risk assessment, Rural populations, State initiatives, Substance use disorders, model programs