
Resource Guides
The following toolkits, resource guides, and briefs contain recent, high quality materials for staying abreast of new developments and conducting further research. These resources include links to websites, electronic publications, databases, discussion groups, and other materials.
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Professional Resource Guides and Briefs
Access to high-quality resources to learn more about the topic, conduct further research, locate trainings, and develop programs.
- Adolescent Health
- Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting
- Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
- Adolescent Violence Prevention
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Asthma
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Breastfeeding
- Bullying
- Child Maltreatment
- Child Safety and Injury Prevention
- Childbirth
- Children and Adolescents Exposed to Violence
- Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Communication
- Community Services Locator
- Cost Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis in MCH
- Culturally Competent Services
- Dating Violence
- Depression During and After Pregnancy
- Diabetes
- Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges
- Environmental Health
- EPSDT in Medicaid
- Ethics and Professionalism
- Family Health History
- Fatherhood
- Fertility and Infertility
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
- Food Marketing
- Food Safety
- Food Security and Nutrition Assistance Programs
- Genetics
- Health Information Technology
- Health Insurance and Access to Care
- Health Literacy
- Home Visiting
- Health and Wellness for Adolescent Girls and Women with Mental and Behavioral Health Conditions
- Immunizations
- Infant Mortality and Pregnancy Loss
- Infant Mortality Toolkit: Resources for a Public Health Approach
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Lead Poisoning Prevention
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth
- Life Course and Social Determinants
- Maternal Distress in the Perinatal Period and Child Outcomes
- MCH Data and Statistics
- MCH Links
- MCH Literature and Research Databases
- MCH Programs Databases
- Medications
- Nutrition
- Nutrition During Preconception and Pregnancy
- Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in Child Care and Early Education Programs
- Overweight and Obesity
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- Physical Activity
- Preconception and Pregnancy
- Prematurity
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
- Reaching Out to Children and Youth During Difficult Times
- Rural Health
- School Health
- Screening
- Sexuality Education
- Sleep
- Social and Emotional Development
- Social Determinants in the Medical Home
- Social Media in the States: Tools for Instant Access to Emerging Issues
- Spanish Language Health Resources
- State MCH-Medicaid Coordination Toolkit: Title V and Title XIX Interagency Agreements (IAAs)
- Suicide Prevention
- SUID/SIDS Training Toolkit
- Tobacco, Alcohol, and Substance Use During Preconception and Pregnancy
- Tobacco, Alcohol, and Substance Use in Children and Adolescents
- Translation Toolkit
- Women's Health
Title V Toolkits
Access to resources that can be used in a concerted approach to address specific public health issues.
- Blueprint for Change for CYSHCN Toolkit
- Child Care Consultant Curricula and Toolkits
- Community Services Locator
- Evaluation Toolkit
- Healthy Start Toolkit
- Infant Mortality Toolkit: Resources for a Public Health Approach
- Maternal Health Toolkit
- Social Media in the States: Tools for Instant Access to Emerging Issues
- State MCH-Medicaid Coordination Toolkit: Title V and Title XIX Interagency Agreements (IAAs)
- SUID/SIDS Gateway
- SUID/SIDS Training Toolkit
- Translation Toolkit
Family Resource Briefs
Access to websites, online directories, and other resources for families and those who support them.
- Asthma
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Community Services Locator
- Depression During and After Pregnancy
- Diabetes
- Emotional, Behavioral and Mental Health Challenges
- EPSDT in Medicaid
- Health and Health Care for All
- Health and Wellness for Teen Girls and Women with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
- Health Insurance and Access to Care
- Infant Mortality and Pregnancy Loss
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth
- Nutrition
- Overweight and Obesity
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- Physical Activity
- Preconception and Pregnancy
- Sleep
- Social and Emotional Development
- Stress During and After Pregnancy
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention
- Teen Violence Prevention
School Resource Briefs
Access to websites, online directories, and other resources for developing and evaluating programs and for educating students and their families, teachers, and school staff.
- Asthma Management
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Diabetes
- Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth
- Nutrition Education and School Meals
- Overweight and Obesity
- Physical Activity and Physical Education
- School-Based and School-Linked Health Care
- School Health
- School Violence Prevention
- Sexuality Education
- Sleep
- Social and Emotional Development
MCH Links
Categorical contact information and activities, drawn from MCH Organizations database
Annotated Bibliographies
Print, audiovisual, and electronic resources, drawn from MCHLine®
- Abstinence Education
- Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
- Adolescent Prenatal Care
- Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs
- AIDS/HIV in Pregnancy
- Breastfeeding and Working Mothers
- Breastfeeding: Consumer Education Materials
- Breastfeeding Promotion, Support, and Education
- Bullying
- Child Developmental Screening
- Childhood Nutrition
- CSHCN: Child Care
- CSHCN: Guidelines and Standards
- Cost Effectiveness of MCH Programs
- Culturally Competent Services
- Disasters and Terrorism
- Early Childhood Development
- Effective Program Practices
- Healthy People 2030
- Home Visiting
- Infant Mortality
- Life Courses and Social Determinants
- Mental Health in Primary Care
- Newborn Screening
- Nutrition and Physical Activity for Women
- Nutrition During Pregnancy
- Outreach Programs and Strategies
- Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal Care
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
- School Health Education
- Sexuality Education
- Smoking During Pregnancy
- Smoking/Tobacco Use Prevention
- Substance Use During Pregnancy
- Feedback Form
Organizations Resource Lists
Topical contact information and activities, drawn from MCH Organizations database.
- Adolescent Pregnancy and Parents
- Adoption and Foster Care
- AIDS/HIV
- Breastfeeding
- Child Abuse
- Child, Adolescent, and Maternal Mortality
- Child Care
- Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Culturally Competent Services
- Eating Disorders
- Effective Community Programs
- Family Resource Centers
- Genetics
- Immunizations and Vaccines
- Infant Mortality Prevention
- MCH Links
- Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- Minority Health
- Non-English Language Materials: Sources
- Parenting
- Prenatal Care
- Sexuality Education
- Statistics Sources
- Feedback Form