Children’s Healthy Weight State Capacity Building Program – Integrating Nutrition into MCH Programs

The Children’s Healthy Weight State Capacity Building Program is developing models in MCH nutrition integration, which can then be implemented and replicated nationwide. The models focus on increasing the MCH nutrition competency of the state Title V workforce and optimizing MCH nutrition-related data sources.

For the past 2 years, ASPHN has been working with teams from North Dakota, Oregon, and Wisconsin to develop three state models to strengthen, align, and coordinate current nutrition programs, services, and resources to build and expand capacity around MCH nutrition. This workshop will provide an overview of the different strategies each state has taken to develop the nutrition capacity of their MCH programs.