This program recruits women from the community and provides training and mentoring to help them become MCH Leaders to their neighborhoods to help improve birth outcomes.

The goal of this learning series is to provide local and state review team members with resources on social determinants of health, racial equity, internal bias, and power in order to promote health equity and a better understanding of systemic issues that lead to child deaths.

Four lean process improvement workshops took place to improve how recommendations are written, sorted, and elevated to state leadership for analysis and action. Through the workshops, local teams recommended a new FIMR recommendation form and log be developed to assist in writing and tracking actionable, equitable, and specific recommendations.