MMHSUD Awardees

Dear Awardee,  
 
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau is pleased to invite you to the Maternal and Child Health Tele-Behavioral Health Programs Annual Meeting. This event will be held in-person, at the Bethesda North Hotel and Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland and will be held Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 8:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m. ET and Wednesday, June 5, 2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET.
 
The meeting will feature a variety of presentations and interactive workshops that will allow participants to learn about challenges, solutions, and resources; share accomplishments, innovations, and lessons learned; and network with other Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) and Screening and Treatment for Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders (MMHSUD) program awardees, HRSA staff, other key federal partners, and the MCHB TA Innovation Center team and its partners. 

 
The theme of the annual meeting is "Sustaining a Behavioral Healthcare Access Program Through Implementation and Beyond.” The meeting objectives are to: 
 

• Provide Technical Assistance to PMHCA and MMHSUD awardees to address project barriers and challenges, and to identify opportunities for growth.
• Facilitate peer-to-peer information exchange and the dissemination of project results, promising practices, and lessons learned.
• Facilitate discussions that identify, promote, and enhance critical priority areas for increasing behavioral healthcare access.
• Foster communication and collaboration between PMHCA and MMHSUD awardees and federal and non-federal partners.

 
Participants invited to the meeting are representatives and partners from all PMCHA and MMHSUD awardee cohorts. Awardee participation in this event is required but limited to two attendees per award. If you would like to send more than two people, please send their name and email to MCH-TA-Innovation-Center@jbsinternational.com and they will be put on a waiting list.

To register, please click on the following link: register here. Once you have completed your registration, you will receive a confirmation email. You will receive instructions to set up a Whova account and to access the event platform before the start of the meeting. 
  
Please note the registration deadline is Thursday, February 29, 2024. 
 

For questions specifically about logistics or registration, please contact us at MCH-TA-Innovation-Center@jbsinternational.com. For all other questions about the meeting, please contact your designated HRSA Project Officer. 


We are looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! 

Thank you, 

MCHB TA Innovation Center Team 
 

PMHCA and MMHSUD TA Opportunity: Get hands-on Technical Assistance (TA) help for local data collection and management through upcoming office hours
 

When: Thursday, April 4, 2024. Drop in anytime using the link below at your convenience between 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST.
 

Where:  Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 224 871 887 802
Passcode: 6d7W3H


The MCHB TA Innovation Center is offering drop-in office hours to assist PMHCA and MMHSUD program staff with program evaluation. Subject matter experts from Windrose Vision will support your team in the planning, design, and implementation of an evaluation of your program by providing guidance on evaluation tools and strategies. A sampling of the areas of TA being offered include:

• Spreadsheet development and data tracking 
• Selecting primary program evaluation questions 
• Selecting measures and instruments to align with program goals 
• Identifying available data 
• Collecting new data 
• Power and sampling strategies 
• Data analysis

This is an exciting opportunity for you to explore ideas and find solutions to your data collection challenges, as well as methods to measure outcomes for your program. This session will offer 1:1 TA while also providing an opportunity to hear challenges and solutions among peers.
 

Please drop-in during this hour to ask questions about evaluation strategies and practices for your PMHCA or MMHSUD program. We look forward to seeing you!

Thank you,

MCHB TA Innovation Center Team