New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Inc

PolicyNJ Integrated Care for Kids (NJ InCK): InCK is a care delivery model that emphasizes community-based case management and screening for children and families who are at the highest risk for health complexity. We are working to design this new model of pediatric care and payment in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. This work is supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Maternity Action Plan (MAP): The Quality Institute released the Maternity Action Plan ("MAP"), a holistic approach to combatting maternal mortality and morbidity. (Continued on Schedule O)The MAP provides a directional path forward in four critical ways to address New Jersey's maternal health crisis. By using the MAP, together we will make New Jersey the safest place for patients to give birth and raise children. Through our MAP work we host educational sessions that are open to the public and develop publicly available toolkits and educational materials. This work is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Essential Jobs Essential Care: The Essential Jobs Essential Care Coalition, co-led by the Quality Institute and PHI, includes over 90 organizations and individuals across New Jersey that have come together to advocate for policy changes to support and grow the direct care workforce, including certified homemaker-home health aides (CHHAs), certified nursing assistants or nurse aides (CNAs), and direct support professionals (DSPs). This work is supported by the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation.

Community HealthThe Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC): MWC is a statewide community health initiative that provides communities with funding opportunities and technical assistance for collecting local data and prioritizing their top health-related needs, planning, and implementing programs to address those needs, and developing ways to evaluate their efforts. Over 430 communities have signed the MWC pledge to make their communities healthily places to live, work, and play. In addition, the MWC runs specially focused programs which are described below. (Continued on Schedule O)Conversation of Your Life (COYL): COYL is part of the MWC. Through COYL, we provide technical assistance, materials, speakers, and resources on advance care planning. MWCs uses this assistance to bring important programming on advance care planning to comfortable community settings.Mental Health First Aid: Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a certification course that teaches people how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Institute trainers provide 3 types of MHFA: Adult, Youth, and Perinatal trainings for people who work with each of these populations. Children's Mental Health Mapping: The Institute is leading a statewide initiative to map New Jersey Children's Mental Health System of Care, identify how care is accessed and potential policy recommendations. This work will assist state decision makers and the public in better understanding the current systems and in improving those systems.