Promising Practices in Maternal & Child Health Program
Welcome to NIHCM Foundation’s Promising Practices in Maternal & Child Health searchable database – a collection of emerging and promising health plan programs and collaborations. This database allows you to learn more about the MCH activities and priorities of health plans from across the country with a goal of facilitating program replication and new collaborations between health plans and other MCH stakeholders, especially those working in communities and in the public sector. Each quarter NIHCM selects one partnership success story to highlight in a NIHCM fact sheet. NIHCM Foundation's Promising Practices in Maternal and Child Health fact sheets highlight and recognize emerging and promising collaborations between health plans and other MCH stakeholders.
Use the search fields below to locate the innovative programs NIHCM has collected over the past six years under projects funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). This database will be updated on a quarterly basis with new MCH activities and collaboration submitted to NIHCM’s Promising Practices in MCH Program. If you would like to contribute to this database by sharing effective programs, please complete the submission form and email it, along with any supporting materials, to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Please visit NIHCM’s Alliance for Information on Maternal and Child Health (AIM) partners' searchable databases:
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