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Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH)

In September 2006, NIHCM Foundation received a 5-year cooperative agreement, “Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH),” with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).  Through this project, NIHCM Foundation will strengthen the leadership, capacity and infrastructure of its member health plans to promote and improve adolescent health.

This project is important due to the critical decisions made by health plan executives about the content, organization and financing of health services for adolescents.  Under the guidance of “The National Initiative to Improve Adolescent Health by 2010” and with the help of member health plans, NIHCM Foundation has identified adolescent health priority issues that it will promote and facilitate collaborative activities towards, including: prevention and treatment of chronic disease, mental health services, public-private strategies to improve adolescent health care, Medicaid/SCHIP, and encouraging adolescents’ use of recommended health care services.

NIHCM Foundation is also one of over 25 partners leading the National Initiative to Improve Adolescent Health (NIIAH), a collaborative effort to improve the health, safety, and well-being of adolescent and young adults.  More information on NIIAH is available at http://nahic.ucsf.edu/index.php/niiah/C9  

More information about the PIPPAH project & our partner grantees is available at:

Improving Understanding of Maternal & Child Health (IUMCH)

       

In April 2005, NIHCM Foundation received a 5-year grant with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). The project is entitled “Improving Understanding of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Health Care Issues (IUMCH) Among Health Plan Decision Makers.” NIHCM Foundation has collaborated with MCHB for the past ten years under two consecutive cooperative agreements to provide information and foster communication to improve maternal and child health.

This project is important due to the critically important decisions made by health plan executives about the content, organization and financing of health services for large portions of the MCH population. With the help of member health plans, NIHCM Foundation has identified MCH priority issues around which NIHCM Foundation will facilitate informational and collaborative activities under IUMCH, including: adolescent health, coverage gaps for children and families, depression and suicide, health care disparities, obesity and women’s health. These will build on NIHCM Foundation’s previous work through MCHB on Bright Futures health supervision guidelines, childhood overweight and obesity, health care coverage of children, mental health and women’s health.

Through IUMCH, NIHCM Foundation is part of the Alliance for Improving Maternal and Child Health (AIM).  The purpose of the AIM collaborative is to help members of these organizations make well-informed decisions affecting public health policies and programs for women, children and families.
The AIM collaborative primarily includes grantees under two MCHB programs:
(a) Partnerships to Promote Maternal and Child Health (PPMCH), comprised of organizations whose members are focused on MCH; and
(b) Improving Understanding of Maternal and Child Health (IUMCH), including organizations whose members who have decision-making responsibility for MCH as one of many areas of concern. 

A list of our partners in the AIM collaborative is available at:

 
Each quarter, NIHCM Foundation distributes a newsletter called “Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent's Health Update” that provides the latest developments in policy and research on maternal, child and adolescent health.  To sign up for this newsletter, click here. Archived WCHU newsletters from 2003-2006 and archived Child Health Updates from 1998-2003 are available through the link below. This newsletter is produced as part of both the IUMCH & PIPPAH projects.

For more information on maternal, child and adolescent health and the NIHCM Foundation’s work under its grants from MCHB, please select from the following:
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