Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series

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Maternal and Child HealthLeadership Skills
Development Series

• www.jhsph.edu/wchpc/mchlds
• Womens and Childrens Health Policy Center
• Department of Population, Family and Reproductive
  Health

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Leadership skills training modules that are

• Web-based
• MCH-focused
• Self-directed
• Free!

The MCHLDS was funded by the Maternal and Child
Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services
Administration, through an MCH Public Health
Leadership Training Grant (T76MC00003) to the
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive
Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health.
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Why another leadership training resource?

• Barriers to accessing or providing leadership
  training
• Application of general leadership principles to
  the maternal and child health context
• Recognition of the need to groom the next
  generation of public health leaders
• Leadership requires life-long learning

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Guiding Principles

• We all have the capacity to exhibit leadership,
  no matter where we sit in the organizational
  hierarchy.
• Leadership is an evolving lifelong process, not a
  static state of being.

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Modular Format

• Module 1 Tapping Into Your Leadership Potential
• Module 2 Creating Clarity and Shared Vision
• Module 3 Building and Supporting Teams
• Module 4 Managing Conflict Effectively
• Module 5 Organizational Change (late 2008)
• Module 6 Mentoring and Developing People
  (spring/summer 2009)

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Relationship to MCH Leadership Competencies
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Components

• Video lecture
• Discussion questions
• Group exercises
• Case study
• Interviews with MCH leaders
• Individual self-assessment
• Individual planning worksheet

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Module 1 Mini-Lecture

• 15 minute video

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Tackling Childhood ObesityA Case Study in MCH
Leadership

• Learning Objectives
• Break a complex task into steps and identify
  barriers to change.
• Understand how the process may affect the
  results.
• Apply leadership principles in a collaborative
  group process, by
• using data strategically,
• addressing the context for collaboration,
• creating energy around a shared vision,
• maintaining momentum toward change,
• articulating the framework and strategies for
  change to policy and funding decision makers.

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Preparing for Conflict and NegotiationA Case
Study in Perinatal Depression

• Learning Objectives
• Apply negotiation and conflict resolution
  techniques to a public health scenario by
  breaking the task into discrete steps and
• Clarifying the role of the primary negotiator,
• Demonstrating how to prepare for negotiations by
  thinking strategically and tactically, and
• Applying negotiation techniques to an actual
  public health issue.

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Flexible and Varied Uses

• Staff meetings or retreat
• Local, regional or state MCH conference
• Workshops offered by the local health agency for
  its community partners
• Integrated into other professional development
  activities
• Individual study
• You tell us!

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Sources

• MCH Leadership Competencies
• Turning Points Collaborative Leadership Modules
• Johns Hopkins BSPH faculty with expertise in
  leadership training, especially Ben Lozare and
  Ann-Michele Gundlach
• MCH leaders interviewed for the MCHLDS
• Advisory group

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Advisory Group

• Cheryl DePinto, MD, MPH
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Lillian Gibbons, DrPH
• Public Health Consultant
• Cathy Hess, MSW
• National Association for State Health Policy
• Laura Kavanagh, MPP
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau

• Lucia Rojas-Smith, DrPH
• RTI International
• Nan Streeter, MS, RN
• Utah Department of Health
• Karen VanLandeghem, MPH
• Independent Consultant?
• Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, MD, MPH
• Nashville-Davidson County Health Department

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www.jhsph.edu/wchpc

• Womens and Childrens Health Policy Center
• Department of Population, Family and Reproductive
  Health
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health?
• 615 N. Wolfe Street?Baltimore, MD 21205
• For questions about content or using the MCHLDS
• Marjory Ruderman
• 434-244-2921 or mruderma_at_jhsph.edu
• For technical help with the website
• Lauren Zerbe
• 410-502-7474 or lzerbe_at_jhsph.edu