Diversity Training Peer Collaborative

Diversity in MCH Training: A Peer Collaborative is an intensive 9-month collaborative peer learning process in which a small number of highly motivated grantees will be provided a structured and safe environment to address challenges to racial and ethnic diversity within their Training Program through learning opportunities, technical assistance, and collaboration with peers. The Collaborative is sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau Training Branch and will be facilitated by the MCH Training Resource Center in partnership with the National Center for Cultural Competence.

Purpose of the Peer Collaborative

1. Cultivate further success in site specific efforts to increase racial and ethnic diversity within the MCH Training Program
2. Document promising strategies for increasing racial and ethnic diversity in MCH Training Programs
3. Identify support needed for grantees to successfully implement promising strategies
4. Develop diversity peer mentors among MCH Training Program grantees

To support the Peer Collaborative, the MCH Training Resource Center has updated a literature review that was first developed in 2007. The literature review includes a variety of documents that discuss promising practices to recruit and retain underrepresented students and faculty in a wide range of health profession programs.

Promising Practices for the Recruitment and Retention of Culturally Diverse Students and Faculty into Maternal and Child Health Training Programs: Updated Literature Review (PDF)

Diversity in MCH Training: A Peer Collaborative

The Training Branch is pleased to announce the teams selected to participate in Diversity in MCH Training: A Peer Collaborative.

• University of Alabama at Birmingham Consortium
• UCLA/University of Southern California
• University of Minnesota
• Utah Regional Group
• Westchester Institute for Human Development

The teams were selected from among 17 applications received by a review committee composed of representatives of the MCH Training Resource Center, the National Center for Cultural Competence, a training program faculty member and a current trainee. As we work with the five teams to achieve the goals of the Collaborative, we look forward to sharing information and resources from this effort with all training programs to help cultivate further success in efforts to increase diversity within the MCH Training Program.

Rationale for Cultural and Linguistic Competency in MCH Training Programs

• Rationale for Cultural and Linguistic Competency in MCH Training Programs (PDF)