HV COIIN - Key Persons
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- Home Visiting Program Specialist S
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
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- Maternal Depression Advisor, Northwestern University )
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- Executive Leader and Supporter, University of Chicago, Chapin Hall )
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- Lead Improvement Advisor, Brigham and Women 's Hospital )
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
- Children 's Trust of South Carolina )
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- Associate Director for New Topic CoIINs
- Expert
Jessica Auerbach is an expert in early childhood health and wellness, mental health, and LGBTQ health. She has extensive experience in public health project management, strategic planning, and communications. Nationwide, Auerbach guides states, territories, and communities in reducing health disparities, promoting protective factors, and implementing high-quality programs and systems. Auerbach supports state and territory agencies in building the capacity of home visiting programs. She specializes in improving program implementation, strengthening early childhood systems coordination, and helping programs enhance families' health and well-being and children's school readiness.
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- Home Visiting Program Lead
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
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- Administrative Associate
- Technology Coordinator With the Education Development Center, Inc
- Technology Coordinator With the Education Development Center, Inc. Is Experienced With Facilitating Virtual Events and Finding Solutions to.
Kate Hamby-Hopkins, a technology coordinator with the Education Development Center, Inc. is experienced with facilitating virtual events and finding solutions to technological challenges. In addition to her work with the HV CoIIN as an administrative associate, she has worked with several other groups focused on early childhood health, including the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health and Safety (NCHBHS), and the Home Visiting Improvement Action Center (HV-ImpACT).
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
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- Senior Training and Technical Assistance Associate
Marcy Raska joined EDC to work as a Senior Training and Technical Assistance Associate working for the Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (HV CoIIN). She will be working with the CoIIN project director to assist with dissemination and spread strategy of promising or evidenced based practices in one or more of the following areas, maternal depression, developmental screening, Breastfeeding and family engagement including the development of topic-specific toolkits.
Before joining EDC, Raska was a Nursing Supervisor for the Oakland County Health Division Nurse-Family Partnership Program. Oakland NFP was one of the best performing NFP programs in the state of Michigan. She has 32 years of Public Health Nursing and home visiting experience. Previously she was an Early On infant developmental assessment evaluator. She is an expert in Maternal and Child health especially as it applies to home visiting. Her recent area of specialization is supervising the Nurse-Family Partnership program. She has a special interest in family engagement and team building innovative strategies. Marcy Raska has experience in the breakthrough series method and Continuous Quality Improvement methods to improve outcomes in evidence-based home visiting. She brings decades of experience fostering creative collaborations and integrating early childhood home visitation services to improve outcomes for young children and their families. Raska holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Eastern Michigan University.
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- Project Director
- Project Director, Education Development Center )
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- Commander
- Federal Project Officer
Commander Monique Fountain Hanna is a pediatrician and preventive medicine physician in the US. Public Health Services, Corp. (USPHS), working in the field of public health for the federal government. She currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer and Innovation Advisor for the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Division of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems. CDR Fountain-Hanna is the Division's Quality Improvement and Innovation Advisor providing leadership and oversight in the area of continuous quality improvement to the 53 state, territory and tribal grantees implementing evidenced-based home visiting programs for women, infants and families. In this role, Dr. Fountain Hanna oversees the first national home visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) as well as awardee implementation of elevated standards for quality improvement in the Federal Home Visiting Program. She also serves as the project lead for the Division's innovation awards which use evidenced based theory to improve support systems in at-risk communities for families in need. Dr. Fountain Hanna has dedicated both her professional and personal life to serving those in diverse communities across the country who have traditionally had a limited voice to speak for themselves including children, impoverished and disenfranchised populations.
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- Education Development Center )
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Coordinator
Olivia Draper, an experienced coordinator in the fields of education, and maternal and child health, provides expertise on child development, parent-child interactions, and qualitative research methods. Along with facilitating cross-functional collaboration in virtual spaces, Olivia directly supports the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data to yield high-quality outcomes for both MIECHV awardees and local implementing agencies. Prior to EDC, Olivia worked on multiple research projects at Harvard University, including the Democratic Knowledge Project and the X-Media Lab. Olivia graduated from UCLA with a degree in Applied Linguistics, and earned her M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is currently pursuing a Public Heath certification offered by Imperial College London. In her free time, she serves on the Steering Committee of Chicago International Model United Nations (CIMUN).
Patricia Finnerty has 15 years of experience working in the public health and healthcare fields. She brings expertise in public health practice, the social determinants of health and quality improvement concepts, specifically the Model for Improvement and IHI's Breakthrough Series. She has designed, implemented and provided quality improvement expertise for multiple national projects related to children's health, including home visiting, infant mortality and early childhood comprehensive systems. She is an expert in the facilitation and management of workgroups for the development and implementation of QI theory and measures and in teaching the application of quality improvement concepts. Before joining EDC she served as Associate Director of Improvement at the National Institute for Children's Health Quality (NICHQ) where she provided leadership in the design and implementation of national Breakthrough Series Learning Collaboratives and Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Networks (CoIIN). Patricia received her Masters of Science, with a concentration in maternal and child health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed an intensive Improvement Advisor course at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and has served as a teaching fellow in the area of QI and child health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Rachael Glisson, MPH, brings many years of experience in performance data collection, measurement, use, and evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and capacity building through technical assistance provision. Ms. Glisson serves as an Improvement Advisor to the Home Visiting CoIIN 2.0 with the topic of Intimate Partner Violence. She supports three teams using the Model for Improvement and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series model. Before joining EDC, Ms. Glisson supported local implementing agencies in quality improvement efforts that resulted in improved outcomes in maternal and child health indicators as a member of the Georgia MIECHV team. She facilitated data management and analysis for all performance measurement activities. Ms. Glisson holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Georgia and completed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series College in 2019.
Sally Baggett brings more than 20 years of experience in the management of evidence-based, early childhood home visitation programs to inform her current role as a member of EDC's Home Visiting-Improvement Action Center Team (HV-ImpACT). The integration of early childhood home visitation services into primary health care systems is a focal point for much of her efforts and the topic of her published works.
Baggett is a skilled facilitator of continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes. She is an accomplished presenter and has conducted numerous trainings and webinars for regional and national audiences.
Baggett is a charter member of the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative Council. She received her BA from Furman University.
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- Associate Project Director for the Home Visiting Performance Measurement
- Improvement Advisor
Sara Voelker is the Associate Project Director for the Home Visiting Performance Measurement and Continuous Quality Improvement technical assistance center (HV-PM/CQI). She brings expertise in designing and facilitating continuous quality improvement projects in home visiting using the Model for Improvement and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series model. Before joining EDC, she supported the application of quality improvement methods in local health departments, child welfare agencies, community non-profits, and tribal communities as a member of the Wisconsin MIECHV team. Currently, Sara serves as an Improvement Advisor to the Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (HV CoIIN) focusing on breastfeeding and provides technical assistance on QI methods and implementation to MIECHV awardees in Regions I and III. Sara holds a Master of Public Policy and Master of Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and completed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series College on collaborative improvement methods.
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
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- Member of the MIECHV Awardee Leadership Team
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- Co - Director
- Project Director
- Assistant at the Boston University School of Public Health