Overview of MCHB Programs

Michael C. Lu, MD, MPHAssociate Administrator

Maternal and Child Health Bureau Health Resources and Services Administration

Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant MortalityWashington, DC

November 15, 2012

HRSA

Mission

•Improve the health of all women, children, and families in our nation

Overview

• Title V MCH Services Block Grant• Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting

Program• Other Programs

• Autism• Traumatic brain injury• Sickle cell• Universal newborn hearing screening• Heritable disorders• Emergency medical services for children• Healthy Start

Title V MCH Services Block Grant

• State Formula Grants ($551M)• Special Projects of Regional and National Significance

($78M)• Set-asides: oral health, sickle cell, epilepsy, fetal alcohol• Most of our research and training programs• Most of our projects including infant mortality

collaborative

• Community Integrated Services Systems ($10M)

Title V MCH Services Block Grant

• Access• Quality• Integration• Accountability• Equity

Title V MCH Services Block Grant

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• State Formula Grants ($551M)• Special Projects of Regional and National Significance

($78M)• Set-asides: oral health, sickle cell, epilepsy, fetal alcohol• Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to

address infant mortality (COIIN) • MCH Training and Research

• Community Integrated Services Systems ($10M)

Title V MCH Services Block Grant

Maternal, Infant, and Early ChildhoodHome Visiting Program (MIECHV)

• Authorized under Affordable Care Act• $1.5B over 5 years; $350M in 2012• In nearly all states and territories• Home visits to at-risk families throughout pregnancy

and in the first years of life

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

Other Programs

• Autism ($47M)• Traumatic brain injury ($9.7M)• Sickle cell ($4.7M)• Universal newborn hearing screening ($18.6M)• Heritable disorders ($9.8M)• Emergency medical services for children ($21.1M)• Healthy Start ($103M)

Other Programs

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