title: Transformation of the title V maternal and child health services block grant.
abstract: This paper describes the transformation of the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration led a 21-month visioning process to engage input from MCH stakeholders and other national, state and local MCH leaders, families and other partners to improve, innovate, and transform the Title V MCH Services Block Grant. The process has helped inform the development of a new grant guidance for the next 5-year cycle beginning in fiscal year 2016. The triple aims of the transformation are to reduce burden, maintain flexibility, and increase accountability. State reporting burden is reduced by aligning and streamlining the needs assessment, annual report and application, reducing the number of forms States have to fill out, eliminating Health Systems Capacity Indicators, and prepopulating the annual report and application with State data using national data sources. State flexibility is maintained through the needs assessment process whereby State needs and priorities drive the selection of National Performance Measures and State-specific Performance Measures, and the development of State Action Plan and Evidence-based/informed Strategy Measures. Accountability is increased through the new three-tiered performance measurement framework, which will help States tell a more coherent and compelling story about the impact of Title V on the health of the Nation's mothers, children, and families. The ultimate success of the transformation will be measured by how much the transformed Title V program moves the needle in MCH in the States and for the Nation.
authors: Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857, USA.
authors: Michael C
authors: MC
authors: Lu
authors: Cassie B
authors: CB
authors: Lauver
authors: Christopher
authors: C
authors: Dykton
authors: Michael D
authors: MD
authors: Kogan
authors: Michele H
authors: MH
authors: Lawler
authors: Lauren
authors: L
authors: Raskin-Ramos
authors: Kathy
authors: K
authors: Watters
authors: Lee A
authors: LA
authors: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D000067576:Child Health / Q000191:economics; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000191:economics; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D000068101:Maternal-Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States