MCH history

In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt convened the first White House Conference on Care of Dependent Children, which called attention to the unacceptably high rate of infant deaths and the detrimental effects of child labor.

A report on the demographics of children based on information collected in the 1910 census.

United States Children's Bureau. [1912]. Establishment of the Children's Bureau. [Washington, DC]: United States Children's Bureau, 5 pp. ([Children's Bureau publication; no.

In 1914, Lundberg was appointed as the first director of the Social Service Division of the United States Children’s Bureau so Lundberg and Lenroot moved to Washington, D.C. There, Lenroot served as a special investigator in the division until being promoted to Assistant Director.

1915 Establishment of a Birth Registration Areas (10 States and the District of Columbia)

The MCH Group has its roots in the Schweizer Mustermesse, which was founded in Basel in 1916 and later became Messe Basel.

In 1917, she became director of the Industrial Division at the Children’s Bureau.

Lathrop, J. (1918). Provision for the Care of the Families and Dependents of Soldiers and Sailors.

1921 Sheppard-Towner Act established national policy that the people, through their Federal, State, and local governments, share responsibility for helping to provide community services that children need for a good start in life.

Children's Bureau., Hunter, E. Belle. (1922). Office administration for organizations supervising the health of mothers, infants, and children of preschool age: with special reference to public health nursing agencies.

Annotation: These articles come from the proceedings of a maternity and infancy conference of state directors in charge of the local administration of the Maternity and Infancy Act, 1926.

She served as President of the National Conference of Social Work, and even supported the organization of the first Conference on Social Work in Paris in 1928.

1930 Dissident group of pediatricians resign from AMA in protest and form the American Academy of Pediatrics.

When Grace Abbott retired as Chief in 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Lenroot as the Bureau’s third Chief.

“The story begins in August 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression.

Lenroot, K.F. (1937). Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Children’s Bureau, United States Department of Labor.

1944 An association of directors of maternal and child health programs (AMCHP) founded to provide both a framework and a focal point for state and national efforts centered on mothers, children and families.

Lenroot, K. F. (1947). International children's emergency fund.

Eliot, M. (1948). Child Feeding in Europe Under the International Children’s Emergency Fund.

1949 United Cerebral Palsy founded by parents of children with cerebral palsy.

Eliot, M. (1954). Child Health Programs: Federal-State Funds and Current Problems.

Henderson, GM . [[1955?]. Development of home economics in the United States: With referencce to its purposes and integrating functions . University Park, Pennsylvania State University, College of Home Economics, 17 pp. (College of Home Economics Publication No.

1956 Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) passed to provide income to people who are unable to work because of a disability.

1962 Migrant Health program established.

In 1965, he received the Martha May Eliot Award by the American Public Health Association for his outstanding achievements in the field of maternal and child health.

The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program was created in 1967 to fund preventive health services for Medicaid-eligible children, including physical and developmental exams, vision and hearing screening, dental referrals, and immunizations.

In 1968, he moved to Philadelphia to run the Children and Youth project at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.

He became Director of the Maternal and Child Health Service in 1969 when the child health grants were transferred to the Public Health Service.

1970 Reauthorization of the Developmental Disabilities Act authorized funding for State Developmental Disabilities Councils (DD Councils) in each state and territory.

The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) was created in 1972.

In 1974, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Childhood Disability Program began to provide monthly cash payments to low-income children with disabilities and special health care needs.

Winkler, R., Nora, A., & Nora, J. (1977). Familial congenital complete heart block and maternal systemic lupus erythematosus.

In 1979, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention partnered with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in developing the Pregnancy-Related Mortality Surveillance System, and implementing maternal mortality review boards across the country.

The Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant is created in 1981, consolidating under Title V seven former categorical child health programs into a single program of formula grants to States supported by a Federal special projects authority.

50th Anniversary: Celebrating Events [Presentation Given to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Title V] (1985). Vince Hutchins.

1988 Pediatric AIDS projects developed in Title V set-aside.

Hutchins, V., & Walch, C. (1989). Meeting Minority Health Needs Through Special MCH Projects.

The Healthy Start Initiative was created in 1991 to attack the causes of infant mortality and low birthweight using a broad range of community-based interventions in nearly one hundred communities across the United States.

Kotch, J. B.; Blakely, C. H.; Brown, S. S.; and Wong, F. Y., eds. (1992). A Pound of Prevention: The Case for Universal Maternity Care in the United States Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.

Following years of planning and preparation, MCH took the first bold steps in this massive undertaking in December 1994.

Proceedings of the International Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Water Fluoridation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 1995.

In 1996, the United States Congress passed landmark welfare reform legislation (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act) that replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program with the TANF Program.

Health care coverage for children was re-expanded in 1997 with the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Passed in 1998, the initiative has raised approximately $700 million annually from a tobacco surtax to be used to improve early child development for children up to age five.

2002 The Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) is developed to help assess the management and performance of federal programs.

The authors used 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health data to conduct an analysis of the independent and joint associations between several socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics and physical activity and inactivity prevalence.

Korst, L., Gregory, K., Lu, M., Reyes, C., Hobel, C., & Chavez, G. (2005). A Framework for the Development of maternal quality of care indicators.

Puryear, M., Weissman, G., Watson, M., Mann, M., Strickland, B., & Van Dyck, P. (2006). The regional genetic and newborn screening service collaboratives: The first two years.

Acquisition of Expomobilia AG in Effretikon | Acquisition of 40 % of Exhibit & More AG (acquisition of the remaining 60 % in 2010)

Family Voices. [2012]. Getting to know Title V [rev.]. Boston, MA and Albuquerque, NM: Family Voices, 38 pp. (Partnerships: Families and Title V)

Acquisition of 60 % of Asian Art Fairs Limited (acquisition of the remaining 40% in 2014)

Warren, M., Dooley, S., Pyle, M., & Miller, A. (2015). Use of Competency-Based Self-Assessments and the MCH Navigator for MCH Workforce Development: Three States’ Experiences.