MCH Leadership

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MCH Leadership

• Laura Kavanagh, MPP
• Health Resources and Services Administration
  (HRSA)
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)
• Division of Research, Training and Education
  (DRTE)

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• One who cares about other people, one who
  demonstrates a belief in the importance of
  enhancing the gifts of people, and one whose
  focus is on the futurethis is a leader who helps
  to grow the next generation.
• Ray Blunt, Leaders and Stories Growing the Next
  Generation, Conveying Values, and Shaping
  Character, http//www.govleaders.org/stories.htm

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• A leader brings hope. That doesn't mean putting
  on rose-colored glasses, painting on a happy
  face, and avoiding problems by spouting clichés
  on positive thinking. Highly effective leaders
  help others deal with the reality of current
  problems by focusing their attention on what's
  possible. They use the dream of what could be as
  a magnet to draw everyone forward.
• --Jim Clemmer, "The Dynamic Power of Hope"

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Overview

• History of MCH Leadership Training
• Current Best PracticeHow can we contribute to
  the development of leaders?
• FutureMeasuring Leadership Attainment

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History

• Childrens Bureau
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau

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MCH Training Evaluation

• MCH Training Programs differ
• Degree of curricular emphasis
• Extent of focus on policy work or academic
  accomplishment versus clinical excellence
• Methods to train for leadership
• Groups selected to receive leadership training

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Aspects of Training for Leadership

• Recruitment
• Policy and Community Action
• Skills Building
• Role of Mentors

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• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because
  that's where the fruit is.               --Wil
  l Rogers

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Selected Best Practices

• Individual Growth
• Curriculum Development
• Presentation of Research Findings
• Trainee Initiated Projects
• Field Experiences with youth serving agencies
• Presenting Testimony
• Leadership Journals

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Selected Best Practices

• Group Leadership Exercises
• Team Building Exercises
• Leadership Seminar Series

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Other Innovations

• Long Term trainees mentoring others
• Public Policy Institutes (NM, NH)
• Alumni Leadership Award (OR)
• Trainee Research Day
• Foundations of MCH Leadership (MN)

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Other Innovations

• Leadership Trainees/Leadership Track (MA)
• Policy Concentration
• Research to Practice Literature Reviews (AR)
• Leadership Development Series (IL)
• From Idea to Grant Proposal
• I have a great project idea! Now What?

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• I suppose that leadership at one time meant
  muscle but today it means getting along with
  people. --Indira Gandhi

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• You may have to fight a battle more than once in
  order to win it.
•                --Margaret Thatcher

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Measuring Leadership

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get
  run over if you just sit there. --Will
  Rogers

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The Campbell Leadership Index

• Measures personal characteristics related to an
  individuals leadership success.
• LEADERSHIP
• ENERGY
• AFFABILITY
• DEPENDABILITY
• RESILIENCE
• Campbell, D and Nelson, D (1998). Development
  Planning for the CLI. Campbell Leadership Index.
  Minneapolis,NCS Pearson, Inc.

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• Let us lead, let us renew our efforts in these
  difficult times, let us exhibit confidence,
  creativeness, innovation, opportunism, accurate
  perceptions. Let us create a vision.
  Flexibility, observation, effortlessnessDont
  get stuck. Remember always that a leader is a
  dealer in hope.
• Peter van Dyck, CityMatCH Meeting, 2003,
  Confluence 2003 Where Resilience, Results and
  Resolve Come Together

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Where do we go from here?

• Reflect on your development as a leader
• Role of mentors, personal and professional
• Share best practices
• Keep abreast of the emerging literature
• Chart a course for the future

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Contact

• Laura Kavanagh, MPP
• Training Branch Chief
• [phone]
• lkavanagh_at_hrsa.gov