Our charge is to help build public health curricula for medical students and residents, as well as opportunities to participate in public health practice. more...
 

MCPH provides evaluation technical assistance to five community coalitions funded by the Bingham program. more...
 

MCPH provides evaluation consulting to Boys to Men’s Reducing Sexism and Violence Program (RSVP) a student-based, training-the-trainers violence prevention project. The RSVP and the evaluation are funded by the Bingham Program.  more...
 

MCPH is working with the Maine CDC and other stakeholders in the implementation of the RWJ Common Ground grant.  The project supports state and local public health agencies’ collaboration to prepare agencies to analyze and redesign their business processes and to develop collaborative requirements definitions for information systems to strengthen public health agencies that will help to improve preparedness. more...
 

MCPH provides evaluation technical assistance to multiple state programs in an effort to enhance organizational and staff capacity in the area of evaluation. more...
 

Maine Center for Public Health provides technical support, training assistance, literature reviews of best practice and evaluation for the development and implementation of a physical activity/nutrition community program in greater Franklin county. more...

The Maine Center for Public Health coordinates a comprehensive evaluation for the Maine CDC of its statewide programs which include The Partnership For A Tobacco-Free Maine, Maine Cardiovascular Health Program, Physical Activity and Nutrition Program, Coordinated School Health Program and the local Healthy Maine Partnerships which are coalitions responsible for implementing strategies and activities at the community level. more...

This is the title of a tool kit developed by the Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative. By providing the tools and resources posted here, the MCPH seeks to provide practical support and guidance to health care practices, organizations and individuals across the state to help improve care and outcomes for overweight youth. more...

This Collaborative, based on the Chronic Care Model and Collaborative Learning, is in the second phase of bringing together patients, clinicians, health care organizations, public health organizations and community organizations to improve outcomes for youth at risk for and already overweight. more...

Partner in Chronic Care

Working in partnership with the Hood Center for Children and Families at Dartmouth Medical School and the Maine CDC, MCPH is working to disseminate a family-centered and practice-based  method to improve the care of children with chronic illness.  The model, which has been in existence in New Hampshire for several years, has been proven to improve cost and quality outcomes for such children and has received high marks from families and providers.  We look forward to providing technical assistance to help disseminate the model in Maine. more...

Penobscot Community Health

Community Clinics Project provides integrated primary care, disease management, psychiatric resources, mental health referrals, substance abuse services and linkages to other services for (peri)homeless individuals in the Bangor area.  The Community Clinics Project is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with MCPH providing evaluation services. more...

This major initiative at MCPH focuses on coordinating the public health emergency preparedness training and assessment efforts for the state of Maine. more...

Public Health System Assessment

This project entails a rigorous system-based assessment of the local public health system completed in Portland.  The assessment is based on the National Public Health Performance Standards Program.  more...

Diabetes Public Health System Assessment

This collaborative project focused on strengthening the relationship between state and local public health and health care informatics in Maine by extending the collaboration among them. more...

Integrated Primary Care and Mental Health

MCPH provided evaluation consulting to the Maine in Motion program a statewide year-round walking program. more...
 

Move More Diabetes Project

The Move More Diabetes Project is part of the Kennebec Valley Diabetes Care Initiative aimed at reducing diabetes incidence and mortality. The target population for this project is adults aged 30-70 living in the Kennebec Valley region with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and who are currently "somewhat physically active," but who do not routinely exercise 150 minutes per week. Lay Health Educators (LHEs) are a vital component of this project and their role involves providing referrals and support to program participants. more...

National Learning Collaborative Evaluation (NNPHI)

MCPH provides evaluation consultation to the National Network of Public Health Institutes for a Learning Collaborative initiative focusing on public health performance standards. more...

Public Health Workgroup (PHWG)

Participation in Group and Committee discussions. more...

Weighing Action

As a result of the June 2004 Hanley Forum, the Maine Center for Public Health convened a group of interested provider organizations and began a dialogue on ways to promote healthy weight across our state. more...