National Maternal and Child Health Data Resource Center

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The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to demonstrate the value of a data resource center that delivers user friendly access to national, state and regional data from surveys and other data resources supported by the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Bureau. The National MCH Data Resource Center (DRC) primarily will focus on the Bureaus National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NSCSHCN) and the National Survey of Childrens Health (NSCH) to assure that these two resources are readily able to be used to provide an evidence base for state and local maternal and child health programming. The DRC will include data use support features, easy to understand resource materials, training modules, and technical assistance that specifically respond to the needs and preferences of national, state, community and family constituencies but particularly to State Title V programs. The overarching vision for the DRC is to dramatically broaden the valid and standardized use of the national and state level survey data to assist national, state and family leaders to understand health and health system utilization and performance for children and families including children and youth with special health care needs and to take action to advance positive health outcomes for children, youth, families and communities. The grantee will partner with states, families and other experts, in leading a project to help ensure that the continued investments made in the national surveys lead to effective, efficient and maximum use of these data by state, local and national Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) leaders as well as by their family and community partners.

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