instructionsforcompletingthe2012-13maternal,childand.docVIP

Instructions for Completing the 2012-13 Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Scope of Work (SOW) The six goals in this SOW reflect the priorities of the MCAH Division as identified by the federally required 2010-2015 State Title V Needs Assessment, which incorporates locally identified priority needs. The SOW clearly indicates State and Title V requirements and incorporates some standardized measures to improve the ability of Local Health Jurisdictions (LHJs) to monitor health status and program outcomes. The development of this SOW was guided by several public health frameworks including the 10 Essential Services of Public Health and the three core functions of assessment, policy development and assurance; the Spectrum of Prevention; the Life Course Approach; the Social-Ecological Model and the Social Determinants of Health. Please consider integrating these approaches when conceptualizing and organizing objectives, activities and evaluation measures. To assist you with long term program planning, during our next 5-year Needs Assessment we plan to require LHJs to develop a 5-year action plan and possibly program logic models. This will help make the development of your annual SOW easier as your program objectives, activities and outcome measures will already be determined in your action plan/logic models. Each fiscal year, LHJs will only need to make minor updates or adjustments to their SOWs and action plans based on yearly progress. Goals: The SOW has 6 goals: Goal 1 – Improve outreach and access to quality health and human services Goal 2 – Improve maternal health Goal 3 – Improve infant health Goal 4 – Improve nutrition and physical activity Goal 5 – Improve child health Goal 6 – Improve adolescent health Goals 1-3 are required for all LHJs Goals 4-6 are optional SOW requirements: All LHJs must perform the activities in the shaded areas in Goals 1-3 and monitor and report on the corresponding general process and outcome measures. In ad