MCH Timeline Resources
MCH History Slide Show Video (58 MB) — These slides, set to music, recount highlights in MCH history from the MCH Timeline.
Download MCH History Slides PowerPoint (68 MB) — As above, but as a PowerPoint file.
MCH Glossary—This glossary of MCH terms and acronyms was compiled by the MCH Leadership Institute. (PDF)
MCH Thesaurus—The 3rd edition of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Thesaurus provides the MCH professional community with a standard vocabulary that serves as a tool for indexing and retrieving materials in any MCH research center, library, or special collection.
Federal Maternal and Child Health Legislation
Children’s Bureau Documents—Historical documents from the Children’s Bureau are currently being digitized at the MCH Library.
History of the MCH Training Program (PDF)—Building the Future: The Maternal and Child Health Training Programtraces the history and evolution of the Federal MCH Training Program.
CDC Public Health Image Library—Photographs, illustrations, and multimedia files.
Related Links:
Maternal and Child Health Bureau—The Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau is charged with the primary responsibility for promoting and improving the health of our nation’s mothers and children.
MCH Training Program—This Federal interdisciplinary leadership training program trains the next generation of MCH leaders.
MCH Library—Provides accurate and timely information including the weekly newsletter MCH Alert, resource guides, full text publications, databases, and links to quality MCH sites.
MCHCOM.COM—Webcasts, MCH Conferences and training tools for MCH Professionals.
Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health (ATMCH)—Includes MCH syllabi and MCH Competencies.
Other Children's Health Timelines
Quotations from MCH Leaders
Grace Abbott, Second chief of the Children's Bureau “Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.”
Grace Abbott, Second chief of the Children's Bureau, "Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I have been in a great traffic jam and the jam is moving toward the Hill where Congress sits in judgment of all the administrative agencies of government. And in that traffic jam there's all kinds of vehicles moving up toward the capital. They're all the conveyances that the Army can put in the street. And boy they're going to be coming soon. They're all the hey rigs and binders and plows and all the other things that the Department of Agricultural manages to put into the streets. As I stand on the sidewalk watching it become more and more congested and more difficult, and then, because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into traffic."
Pauline Stitt. “MCH does not raise children, it raises adults. All of tomorrow's productive, mature citizens are located someplace along the MCH continuum. They are at some point in their creation either being conceived or born or nurtured for the years to come. There is very little genuine perception that mature people come from small beginnings, that they've had a perilous passage every moment of the way. All the population, everybody of every age were all at one time children. And they bring to their maturity and old age the strength and scars of an entire lifetime.”
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