Overview

Since 2000, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Maternal and Child Health Bureau funded Leadership Training Programs have joined together to co-sponsor an interdisciplinary leadership development curriculum for graduate and post-graduate fellows. This experience includes the opportunity to explore personal leadership styles through a 3-day leadership assessment workshop - providing the basis for an individual Development Plan (IDP) for each fellow to guide the year's journey. Additional workshops focus on important skills for MCH leaders - conflict resolution, facilitation, cultural competence, and family/professional collaboration. "just-in-time" online trainings in advanced leadership skills and peer coaching represent two enhancements to the program being introduced for the first time this year. Coordinated through the UNC MCH Leadership Consortium, this integrated approach to interdisciplinary training continues to be cited as a national model and serves as an effective platform for academic - practice engagement in public health practice in MCH.
 

Consortium activities include:

In addition to providing a year-long intensive MCH leadership development experience, UNC Consortium activities include:

• Meeting monthly to plan and evaluate interdisciplinary MCH leadership teaching and research issues of mutual interest
• Serving as a campus catalyst and coordinating body for family/professional collaboration and cultural competence within our UNC MCH training programs and other approaches to leadership development
• Fostering a shared understanding of the diverse field of maternal and child health, anchored in a public health, population-based perspective
• Advancing opportunities for trainee, faculty/staff, Title V interaction that address shared goals through joint initiatives
  

The mission of the UNC MCH Leadership Consortium is to work in partnership with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, its National MCH Training Network, and state and local Title V programs to train the next generation of leaders and to better serve the MCH population.

Supporting the MCH leaders of today, preparing the MCH leaders of tomorrow.