Maternal & Child Health

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Children, Healthy Families

Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant

For over 75 years, the Federal Title V Maternal and Child Health Program has provided States with funding to ensuring the health of the Nation's mothers, women, children, and youth, including children with special health care needs, and their families.

Fast Facts

  • Title V remains the only Federal program that focuses solely on improving the health of all mothers and children.
  • Title V is a partnership with State Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) programs, reaching across economic lines to support core public health functions.
  • Title V makes a special effort to build community capacity to deliver such services as care coordination, home visiting, and nutrition counseling, which complement State Medicaid and CHIP medical assistance programs.
  • Title V funds support programs for children with special health needs to facilitate the development of family-centered, community-based, coordinated systems of care.
  • Title V-supported programs provide gap-filling prenatal health services to women and primary and preventive health care to children.

Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant supports the following work here in Maine:

Birth DefectsBirth Defects
Perinatal HealthPerinatal Health
MFIMRMaternal, Fetal & Infant Mortality Review
Newborn Bloodspot ScreeningNewborn Bloodspot Screening
Newborn Hearing ProgramNewborn Hearing Program
CYSHCNChildren & Youth with Special Health Care Needs
CCHDCritical Congenital Heart Disease
CMVCytomegalovirus (CMV)

Other Maine Programs supported by the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant

Other Maternal & Child Health Programs and/or Grants

Title V Block Grant Comprehensive Strength and Needs Assessment

The HRSA Maternal Child Health Block Grant requires states to complete a statewide strength and needs assessment every five years. The Maine CDC began this process during FY19 and is focusing on five populations (Women/Maternal, Perinatal/Infants, Children, Adolescents and Children with Special Health Needs). Workgroups included health care providers, community organizations and families who made recommendations on priorities and performance measures that will guide the work of Maine's MCH Programs for the next five years (2020-2025). Below are a few of the main documents used throughout the process.

  1. Presentation on the information gathered about priorities.
  2. The current performance measures.
  3. Data posters to help guide discussions about where Maine is seeing successes and challenges.

Funding

DHHS, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention receives funds through a block grant from HRSA, Maternal & Child Health Bureau. Funds are used to design and implement a wide range of Maternal & Child Health and Children with Special Health Needs activities in Maine that address national and state priorities.

Resources

LOCATe Guidance

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) asked all hospitals in Maine to complete a US CDC assessment on maternal and neonatal Levels of Care (LOC) using the LOCATe tool. Maine DHHS then met with each hospital to review their LOCATe tool results and determine the appropriate maternal and newborn LOC. This document includes guidance on services based on the level of care, a map of Maine hospitals, and contact information.

Contact: Maryann Harakall
Voice: (207) 557-2470
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1-800-698-3624
E-mail: maryann.harakall@maine.gov
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