NCEMCH has developed numerous products focused on health promotion and program development ranging including online dissemination and training portals; annotated bibliographies and resource guides to translate knowledge to action, and publications for use by MCH professionals on a national level, in state programs, or for local initiatives.

Our Work

• NCEMCH Dissemination Products
• NCEMCH Training Products
• NCEMCH Topical Information and Research Products
• NCEMCH Publications by Category
• NCEMCH Publications by Title

NCEMCH Dissemination Products

• MCH Alert: a free quarterly electronic newsletter that highlights learning opportunities and training developments for the Title V workforce as organized by the MCH Navigator and resources and announcements that have been collected by NCEMCH’s MCH Knowledge Base.
• NCEMCH Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr, Pinterest
• MCH Navigator Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkdIn

NCEMCH Training Products

• See the MCH Navigator for a list of Training Bundles, Spotlights, Briefs, and Lists

NCEMCH Topical Information and Research Products

• See the NCEMCH Knowledge Base

NCEMCH Publications by Category

Abstinence Education

Maternal and Child Health Policy

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use

MCH Program Interchanges

MCH Projects

Bright Futures/Health Supervision

Nutrition and Breastfeeding

Child Care

Oral Health

Children's Health Insurance

Program Evaluation

District of Columbia Community Issues

Racial and Ethnic Disparities

Infant Mortality

Abstinence Education

• MCH program interchange: Focus on abstinence education. 1997. 22 pp.

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use

• Screening for substance abuse during pregnancy: Improving care, improving health. 1997. 14 pp.

Bright Futures/Health Supervision

• See the Bright Futures website for more information about Bright Futures publications.

Child Care

Making food healthy and safe for children: How to meet the national health and safety performance standards -- Guidelines for out-of-home child care programs. 1997. 86 pp.

• Chapters One and Two: Introduction and keeping everything clean
• Chapter Three: Using foods that are safe to eat
• Chapter Four: Planning to meet the children's food needs
• Chapter Five: Promoting pleasant meals and snacks
• Chapter Six: Helping children and families learn about food
• Appendix: Community resources, material for parents

Children's Health Insurance

• Comprehensive outreach: A new model to improve children's access to health care. 2001. 23 pp.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on outreach. 1999. 28 pp.
• Outreach and the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Helping states enroll children and assure access to care. 1997. 12 pp.
• Outreach to children: Moving from enrollment to ensuring access. 1998. 21 pp.
• Successful outreach strategies: Ten programs that link children to health services. 1999. 37 pp.

District of Columbia Community Issues

See the DC Family Policy Seminar portal.

Infant Mortality

• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. I -- Consortia development. 1994. 50 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. II -- Early implementation: Lessons learned. 1994. 86 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. III -- Sustainability. 1995. 106 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. IV -- Community outreach. 1996. 148 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. V --Collaboration with managed care organizations. 1997. 115 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Volume VI -- Replicating the Healthy Start models of intervention. 1999. 92 pp.
• Healthy Start resource guide 2000. 2000. 125 pp.
• Healthy Start resource guide: Additions to the Healthy Start National Resource Center reference collection. 1999.
• Healthy Start resource guide: Items from the Healthy Start National Resource Center Reference Collection -- June 1998. 1998. 214 pp.
• Proceedings of Winning the Fight Against Infant Mortality: A National Summit on Community and Corporate Initiatives. 1997. 52 pp.
• Telling the Healthy Start story: A report on the impact of the 22 demonstration projects. 1998. 163 pp.
• Winning the fight against infant mortality: Proceedings of the National Summit on Community and Corporate Initiatives -- Executive summary. 1997. 2 pp.

Maternal and Child Health Policy

See other categories for items focusing on a particular aspect of maternal and child health policy such as Oral Health or Children's Health Insurance.

• Breathing easy: Solutions in pediatric asthma. 2000. 22 pp.
• MCH Alert: Tomorrow's policy today. 1998- . Weekly.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on maternal and child health policy.1997. 36 pp.

MCH Program Interchanges

• MCH program interchange: Focus on abstinence education.1997. 22 pp.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on maternal and child health policy. 1997. 36 pp.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on oral health. See the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resources Center website.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on outreach. 1999. 28 pp.

MCH Projects

NCEMCH is the repository for MCHB's discretionary grants prior to FY2005. A searchable database of these projects is being re-developed and will be available again in the near future.

Nutrition and Breastfeeding

• See also the Bright Futures website.
• Celebrating diversity: Approaching families through their food. (Rev. ed.) 1998. 70 pp.
• Early childhood nutrition resource guide. 1998. 44 pp.
• Making food healthy and safe for children: How to meet the national health and safety performance standards -- Guidelines for out-of-home child care programs. 1997. 86 pp.
  • Chapters one and two: Introduction and keeping everything clean
  • Chapter three: Using foods that are safe to eat
  • Chapter four: Planning to meet the children's food needs
  • Chapter five: Promoting pleasant meals and snacks
  • Chapter six: Helping children and families learn about food
  • Appendix: Community resources, material for parents
• Maternal weight gain: A report of an expert work group. 1997. 14 pp.
• The practitioner's guide to cost-effectiveness analysis of nutrition interventions. 1996. 57 pp.
• A review of the medical benefits and contraindications to breastfeeding in the United States. 1997. 38 pp. (Maternal and Child Health Technical Information Bulletin)
• Update for nutrition during pregnancy and lactation: An implementation guide. 1998. 2 pp.

Oral Health

• See the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) website.

Program Evaluation

• Building the future: The Maternal and Child Health Training Program. 2000. 87 pp.
• The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program in review: Analysis and findings of a descriptive survey. 1999. 92 pp.
• The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program in review: Analysis and findings of a descriptive survey -- Executive summary. 1999. 6 pp.
• MCH training program: An evaluation. 2001. 120 pp.
• MCH training program: An evaluation -- Executive summary. 2001.19 pp.

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

• Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and child health. 1998. 6 pp. (NCEMCH policy brief; no. 3)

NCEMCH Publications by Title

• Bright Futures Publications
• Breathing easy: Solutions in pediatric asthma. 2000. 22 pp.
• Building the future: The Maternal and Child Health Training Program. 2000. 87 pp.
• Celebrating diversity: Approaching families through their food. (Rev. ed.) 1998. 70 pp.
• Comprehensive outreach: A new model to improve children's access to health care. 2001. 23 pp.
• Early childhood nutrition resource guide. 1998. 44 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. I -- Consortia development. 1994. 50 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. II - Early implementation: Lessons learned. 1994. 86 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. III -- Sustainability. 1995. 106 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. IV -- Community outreach. 1996. 148 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Vol. V -- Collaboration with managed care organizations. 1997. 115 pp.
• The Healthy Start Initiative: A community-driven approach to infant mortality reduction. Volume VI -- Replicating the Healthy Start models of intervention. 1999. 92 pp.
• Healthy Start resource guide 2000. 2000. 125 pp.
• Healthy Start resource guide: Additions to the Healthy Start National Resource Center reference collection. 1999.
• Healthy Start resource guide: Items from the Healthy Start National Resource Center Reference Collection -- June 1998. 1998. 214 pp.
• The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program in review: Analysis and findings of a descriptive survey. 1999. 92 pp.
• The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program in review: Analysis and findings of a descriptive survey -- Executive summary. 1999. 6 pp.
• Making food healthy and safe for children: How to meet the national health and safety performance standards -- Guidelines for out-of-home child care programs. 1997. 86 pp.
  • Chapters one and two: Introduction and keeping everything clean
  • Chapter three: Using foods that are safe to eat
  • Chapter four: Planning to meet the children's food needs
  • Chapter five: Promoting pleasant meals and snacks
  • Chapter six: Helping children and families learn about food
  • Appendix: Community resources, material for parents
• Maternal weight gain: A report of an expert work group. 1997. 14 pp.
• MCH Alert: Tomorrow's policy today. 1998- . Weekly.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on abstinence education. 1997. 22 pp.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on maternal and child health policy. 1997. 36 pp.
• MCH program interchange: Focus on outreach. 1999. 28 pp.
• MCH Research Publications.
• MCH training program: An evaluation. 2001. 120 pp.
• MCH training program: An evaluation -- Executive summary. 2001. 19 pp.
• Oral Health Publications
• Outreach and the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Helping states enroll children and assure access to care. 1997. 12 pp.
• Outreach to children: Moving from enrollment to ensuring access. 1998. 21 pp.
• The practitioner's guide to cost-effectiveness analysis of nutrition interventions. 1996. 57 pp.
• Proceedings of Winning the Fight Against Infant Mortality: A National Summit on Community and Corporate Initiatives. 1997. 52 pp.
• Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and child health. 1998. 6 pp. (NCEMCH policy brief; no. 3.)
• A review of the medical benefits and contraindications to breastfeeding in the United States. 1997. 38 pp.
• Screening for substance abuse during pregnancy: Improving care, improving health. 1997. 14 pp.
• Successful outreach strategies: Ten programs that link children to health services. 1999. 37 pp.
• Telling the Healthy Start story: A report on the impact of the 22 demonstration projects. 1998. 163 pp.
• Update for nutrition during pregnancy and lactation: An implementation guide. 1998. 2 pp.
• Winning the fight against infant mortality: Proceedings of the National Summit on Community and Corporate Initiatives -- Executive summary. 1997. 2 pp.