Funded Partners: National Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP)

	CONTACT INFORMATION Lissa Pressfield Project Director Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs*

AMCHP is a national organization representing state public health leaders and academic, advocacy, and family health professionals that works to improve the health and well-being of women, children, youth (including those with special health care needs), and families.

AMCHP's Program in Action

AMCHP is funded to provide Capacity-Building Assistance for Preventing HIV Infections: State and Local Health Agencies.

• Working with the National Stakeholders Collaborative (NSC) to strengthen collaboration between state health and state education agencies to support and improve prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and unintended and teen pregnancy for youth. The NSC is comprised of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), and the Society. During Year 4, the NSC is:
   
• Providing capacity building assistance to the four state teams that participated in the National Stakeholder Meeting Reconvene (NSM-R) in January of 2009.
   
• Identifying and documenting success stories and lessons learned from state teams receiving capacity building assistance.
   
• Providing a minimum of 2 in-state National Stakeholder Meeting 2.0s for state teams that participated in previous National Stakeholder Meetings (NSM).
   
• Planning and executing an adolescent sexual and reproductive health disparities summit in conjunction with AMCHP’s 2010 Annual Conference to provide foundational knowledge on the current status of adolescent sexual and reproductive health disparities, explore promising approaches, and develop workgroups to advance current and create new strategies.
   
• Hosting an Adolescent Reproductive Health Information Series. AMCHP will showcase promising and evidence-based practices in adolescent health and highlight national initiatives and resources, among other topics, through a series of webinars on adolescent reproductive health.
   
• Increasing Maternal and Child Health professionals’ awareness/access to information, materials and issues related to adolescent HIV, STD and unintended teen pregnancy prevention.

Other NGOs funded under this category:

• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
• National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD)

See Also

Funding Announcement 601 [pdf 245K] (CDC-RFA-DP06-601). Provides more information on the NGO funding requirements for providing capacity-building assistance.

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