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AMCHP 2025 Annual Conference Session & Poster Proposals
The 2025 AMCHP Annual Conference will be held March 15 - 18, 2025 at The Westin Washington DC Downtown, in Washington, DC. The Call for Proposals will close on September 27, 2024. The deadline will NOT be extended!
For the AMCHP 2025 details, please click here!
Theme
In 2024, AMCHP’s theme of Partnering with Purpose highlighted how essential meaningful and purposeful partnerships are for achieving our goals in MCH. The theme of partnership resonated deeply and widely with our participants, leading us to revisit it in 2025 with the theme Partnering for Impact. This theme captures our collective commitment to making our world better – where people have equitable access, equitable outcomes, and the opportunity to thrive. This theme takes us a step further in our purposeful partnerships towards the "why" of partnership—we partner to make things happen. Partnering for Impact places results in the spotlight. Our collective work together matters because of what we hope to accomplish together. We model partnering intentionally to change the status quo, disrupt harmful narratives, and close the gaps in MCH outcomes. We partner not just because it looks good on paper, or because it feels good to work with like-minded people, but because we want to impact our communities for the better. We are difference-makers. We are change-makers. We are partnering for impact.AMCHP’s goal is to have at least 50% of accepted proposal submissions directly address the conference theme.
Learning Objectives
• Identify practices and policies designed to grow and support impactful partnerships in maternal and child health (MCH) (Conference Theme)• Discover methods to build authentic, intentional, impactful partnerships (Conference Theme)
• Apply impactful frameworks, theories, and approaches to MCH efforts.
• Examine ways to strengthen partnerships between families, communities, and local and state MCH programs.
• Build and apply important skills for the MCH workforce.
• Discuss emerging issues, pressing concerns, and the latest research in MCH.
• Develop new partnerships in the MCH field and beyond.
• Identify individual and organizational roles in transforming MCH systems.
The tracks for this year’s conference are:
• Adolescent and Young Adult Health• Children and Youth with Complex Health Care Needs and Disabilities
• Epidemiology, Data, Assessment, and Evaluation
• Family & Community Engagement & Partnership
• Health Equity & Disability Justice
• Housing, Nutrition, and other Social Determinants of Health
• Indigeneity and Health
• Mental Health/Behavioral Health
• Prenatal to Three Continuum
• Policy & Advocacy
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Title V Program Administration
• Workforce Development and Leadership
• Youth Engagement & Partnership
AMCHP Culture and Expectations of Proposal Submitters
AMCHP is committed to anti-racism and social justice. We practice this commitment throughout our organization, including our partnerships, communications, and events. We use opportunities like the AMCHP conference to live up to our commitments, including having honest conversations about and challenging racism in our areas of influence. For this reason, AMCHP asks all proposal submitters to propose work that has authentically engaged individuals, families, and communities most affected by their issue of focus. Additionally, all proposal submitters should ensure that the language they use to describe their efforts – both in the submission and if accepted, when presenting at the conference – uses strengths-based, respectful, and inclusive language and avoids traumatizing and inaccurate language that mischaracterizes differences in outcomes as due to individual or community characteristics, as opposed to exposure to systemic injustices. AMCHP also maintains the right to suggest alternate phrasing in accepted session titles and descriptions. There are numerous resources available on inclusive and harm-reducing language. These include• AMCHP Innovation Hub Glossary
• OHSU Inclusive Language Guide
• Breastfeeding Public Health Partners Equity and Inclusive Language Toolkit
• CDC Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
Who Attends AMCHP?
More than 1,300 people attended the AMCHP 2024 Annual Conference from nearly every state/ /jurisdiction in the United States. It is one of the largest gatherings of MCH professionals in the country. AMCHP was established as a membership association for individuals working in MCH in state and jurisdictional government. While this remains our core audience for the AMCHP conference, more than half of the participants represent our broader network of federal officials, advocates, family and community leaders, youth, students, researchers, and health professionals. Whoever you are and wherever you work, you are welcome at the AMCHP Annual Conference. Together, these participants exchange ideas, data, resources, strategies, and tools to accelerate progress toward healthy children, healthy families, and healthy communities. Our audience works across a variety of sectors (e.g. public health, education, social services) and impacts families and communities at critical periods and across life stages such as:• Perinatal and infant health
• Reproductive and sexual health
• Adolescent health
• Children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities
• Early childhood
How long does it take to submit a proposal?
AMCHP staff estimated it takes about 4-5 hours to pull all of the content pieces together, and 15-20 minutes to fill out the forms for the actual submission. Therefore, please plan ahead for the due date of September 27, 2024.
This year, AMCHP is accepting Video Submissions in place of the written submission for workshops and skills-builder sessions. Please focus your 5-minute submission video on questions 4-13 of the session/proposal details page.
For more information regarding what is required during the submission process, please
Please watch this webinar AMCHP put together on the submission and review process. Presentation slides for the webinar are included here.
To view the full Audio Transcript and Q&A please use this link and Passcode: KW@U=Cg7.
Submission Type Descriptions (see below):
| Session Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Skills Building Sessions | 3 hours in length. Skills-building sessions teach the participant new skills, methods, and tools that they can apply to their work. Sessions must be interactive, with at least 50% of time dedicated to planned interactive activities to teach skills and demonstrate how participants apply the skills to their work. |
| Workshops | 60 minutes in length. Workshops are informative sessions that often include a panel of presenters representing varying perspectives, include audience interaction, and have at least 15 minutes for Questions & Answers (Q&A). |
| Poster | Graphic presentation of research or program results to be placed on an 8’ long x 4’ tall poster board. |
| Student and Early Career Professional Roundtables | This is a unique opportunity for students and early career professionals to share five-minute presentations about a topic they would like to explore in greater depth, including any questions for which they are seeking guidance. MCH professionals from across the country will respond and provide insights, resources, and connections. |
The Call For Proposals will close on September 27, 2024. The deadline will NOT be extended!.
If you have any issues, please contact Michelle Cruz at AMCHPSpeakers@conferencemanagers.com