# Presentation: 122587

## “Fruits of Our Labor...Leadership Training In the Era of MCH Leadership Competencies Version 2.0”

- MCH Leadership Competencies Workgroup: Update
- Gwendolyn J. Adam, PhD, LCSW
- Baylor College of Medicine – LEAH Program

## Leadership and Watermelon...Packaging is Everything

- Characteristics of Watermelon – relatively large, difficult to package, each is a little different
- Japanese grocers – no room to waste, most – no ideas – “they grow big and round”
- Japanese farmers – “If stores need a square watermelon – how can we provide one?”
- Soon the farmers invented the square watermelon – easier to package, sell and kept buyers happy

## Leadership and Watermelon...Packaging is Everything

- Solution -  farmers asked how it could be done
- Just place in square box when growing and watermelon will take on the shape of the box...

## MCH Leadership Competencies: Recent History – “Farmers at Work”

- April 2004: “Future of MCH Leadership Training” – Seattle, WA - representatives from MCH training programs – first draft
- October 2004 – MCH All Grantee Meeting – refinement
- Early 2005 – MCH Competencies Work Group – representatives from MCH Training Programs, AMCHP, and CityMatCH,  - formed to refine further - draft 2/2006
- Final refinement – MCH Competencies Work Group meeting – Washington, DC 1/2007
- Release of MCH Competencies Version 2.0 – AMCHP Annual Meeting – 3/2007

## Packaging is Everything: Version 2.0 - A box for growing, evaluating, and promoting MCH leadership training

## Work Group Plans: Promoting the Box – Version 2.0

- At 1/2007 final meeting prior to release - Work group members identified key constituent groups / organizations in which to market Version 2.0
- Took responsibility to bring to respective constituent groups / spheres of influence
- AMCHP, City MatCH, MCH Training Programs, Professional Organizations, Title V Directors / Community
- Identified evaluation / validation of the competencies as key next step

## Leadership Development – Version 2.0 Style: Using the Competencies

- MCH Training Programs:
- Setting Training Objectives
- Course / Training development
-  Leadership Portfolios
-  MCH Professionals:
- Orientation
- Developing CE Plans
- Job Descriptions
- HRSA:  Evaluating Leadership and Quality Training

## Using the Competencies – Leadership in Action:

- The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) - workforce development committee assessing workforce needs based on the competencies  & “MCH Adolescent Health Leadership Development Initiative”
-  City**M**at**CH** begins Year 2 of City*Leaders*, a six month training program, in September 2008.
- provides leadership training to emerging and mid-level leaders in urban maternal and child health
- mentoring, coaching, and intergenerational transfer of knowledge from senior urban MCH leaders

## Using the Competencies – Leadership in Action

- The Center for Educational Outcomes - Virginia Reed, George Jesien, Crystal Pariseau, Mark Law and Laura Kavanagh -  developing a validation tool to field for the MCH Leadership competencies
- web-based modified Delphi technique to query MCH leaders on  how they rank the competencies
- The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health developed an online course targeted for MCH Leaders, *Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series. *

## Using the Competencies – Leadership in Action

- Baylor College of Medicine – LEAH – Wendy Adam & Cassie Lauver, MCHB, developed the “Pacific MCH Leadership Competencies Project”
- Developed via multiple TA sessions in the Pacific / Title V training sponsored by MCHB Division of State and Community Health
- Involves 6-11 MCH related representatives from all six jurisdictions, including all MCH Directors
- Introduction of, cultural applicability assessment, and integration of competencies in Pacific Basin
- Monthly electronic postings on each competency with directed questions / consistent dialogue

## MCH Leadership Competencies: Access and Updates

- _[www.leadership.mchtraining.net](http://www.leadership.mchtraining.net/)_
- Site contains:
- MCH Leadership Competencies
- Educational experiences for each competency
- Suggested readings
- Highlights of related activities
- Bulletin boards to post your feedback

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## Strategies for Creating a Culture of MCH Leadership Using Version 2.0

- Make decision to cultivate a culture of MCH leadership – purposeful
- Develop ideas for leadership training – organizational assessment for CE - creativity and consistency are crucial
- Set goal to promote group consciousness of leadership in action – recognizing & naming leadership competencies as they occur – in self and others (out loud)

## Strategies for Creating a Culture of MCH Leadership Using Version 2.0

- Focus on bringing the "just doing my job" into the leadership framework – every day
- Define MCH leadership development as a process that requires focus, nurturance and continual renewal
- Develop the process through shared activities, consistent staff discussions, and modified protocols that emphasize / support leadership development
- job descriptions, orientation protocols, self assessments, evaluations

## MCH Training Programs:Changing the Field...One Leader at a Time...

## Programs Represented on the Leadership Competencies Workgroup

- MCHB
- AMCHP
- CityMatCH
- AUCD
- MCH Training Resource Center

- MCH Training Programs
- LEAH
- LEND
- PPC
- Nutrition
- Distance Learning
- Pediatric Pulmonary Centers
- Schools of Public Health