Leading Help Me Grow at the State-Level: Resources & Tools

The organizations and individuals spearheading Help Me Grow in their states hold broad leadership responsibilities.

The HMG National Center is pleased to support those in state-level HMG leadership positions with materials and offerings designed to illuminate existing state-lead activities, celebrate their adaptive function, and inform ways to bring camaraderie and clarity to this unsung role.

Leading Help Me Grow at the State-Level: An Exploration of Roles, Responsibilities, Strategies & Approaches, a new report from the HMG National Center illuminating the exiting associated aims, functions, and challenges, and offering a framework around five strategic areas for HMG state leadership. You can download an embargoed version in the Exploration Study & Report drop-down below.
Help Me Grow Building Connections Series: State Lead Network, designed to foster collaboration and co-refinement of the ideas put forth in the report, and to provide opportunities for those in state-level leadership positions to connect, learn from one another, and problem-solve collectively. Part of HMG National Center’s Building Connections initiative, the HMG State Lead Network (SLN) will provide opportunities for those in the state lead role to convene regularly over the coming year, learn together and from one another, jointly problem-solve around common challenges, and build a network of support, knowledge, and experience that aims to strengthen HMG state leadership as a whole.

Exploration Study & Report

What does it mean to lead HMG at the state-level?
What is the role about?
What does it look like in action?
How can we apply this knowledge to improve and
expand Help Me Grow efforts going forward?

This report from the HMG National Center aims to illuminate approaches to HMG leadership at the state-level, explore existing functions and strategies, and bring clarity so we may learn from this unsung role.

Through a series of key stakeholder interviews on the current landscape of state-level HMG leadership, the report offers insights directly from HMG state leads, in their own words:

• Showcasing the ways in which HMG state leadership is currently carried out across the nation
• Highlighting the existing aims, functions, and challenges of state leadership
• Offering a framework around five strategic areas for HMG state leadership
• Exploring state funding strategies, budgets, and directions for ongoing conversations around funding
• Diving into HMG’s strategic priority of advancing equity and the unique role state leads play

Read the Report

State Lead Network Convenings

The State Lead Building Connections Series is designed to create a space for those leading HMG a the state-level to come together, strategize, and learn from one another.

State Lead Network objectives

Facilitate connections between HMG leads at the state-level
Create opportunity for structured and unstructured discussion around topics designed and prioritized by the state-lead group itself
Identify, document, and disseminate promising practices in HMG state-level leadership
Troubleshoot challenges and/or needs state-leads are currently experiencing
Create a process for HMG state-leads to receive ideas and strategies from others
Identify ways in which the HMG National Center can build out its system building, measurement, or community change efforts to help meet identified state leadership needs

Upcoming Sessions

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Past sessions

Multi-System State Lead Match Group • July 25, 2023
Co-led by the National Center and state leads from HMG Michigan and HMG Washington, this session provided an opportunity to connect with others across the Affiliate Network leading a state with multiple operating HMG systems at the local level. This meeting took on just a few of these considerations and spent some time considering future conversation with this match group.
Recording

Using Medicaid Funding to Support Help Me Grow • May 31, 2023
This session featured HMG Iowa, HMG Vermont, and Lindsey Browning, Program Director for Medicaid Operations at the National Association of Medicaid Directors to discuss using Medicaid funding to support HMG Child Health Care Provider Outreach efforts.
Recording
Slides
Additional resources:
Medicaid Policies to Help Young Children Access Key Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Services: Results from a 50-State Survey
Expanding the Perinatal Workforce through Medicaid Coverage of Doula and Midwifery Services
Aligning Early Childhood and Medicaid State Updates 2022
A Sourcebook on Medicaid’s Role in Early Childhood
Implementing Pediatric Quality Improvement Projects to Increase ACEs Screening in Pediatrics, HMG Alameda County
Medicaid Policies to Help Young Children Access Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Services: Results from a 50-State Survey
Mapping Members’ Experience of Early Childhood Systems

Using Private Philanthropic Funding to Support Help Me Grow • March 1, 2023
The session featured HMG Washington and HMG Utah and their private funding partners, who shared their experience in soliciting, acquiring, and maintaining support from philanthropy as well as the perspective of the funders themselves. Participants were able to converse directly with presenters, as well as connect with other HMG state leads to help build relationships and share resources around the topic of funding more broadly.
– Main session recording – including presentations by HMG Washington and Utah and panel discussion
– Slide deck
– Breakout discussion for single-system affiliate
– Breakout discussion on state funding for HMG (jump to 17:35)
– Breakout discussion for multi-system affiliate states
– Breakout discussion on private funding for HMG (jump to 16:27)

HMG State Lead Roundtable • September 7, 2022
Celebrating, providing feedback, and setting next steps for the forthcoming state lead report: Leading Help Me Grow at the State-Level: An Exploration of Roles, Responsibilities, Strategies, and Approaches.
We also asked the critical question: What does it mean or look like to advance equity through HMG and what can state-level Organizing Entities and state-leads do to advance those goals?
Recording
Slides

HMG State Lead Network Kickoff • September 19, 2022
The Help Me Grow State Lead Network kicked off on September 19, 2022 to collectively begin setting some “north stars” for the meeting series. We asked the questions:

• What about the HMG State Lead Network excites you?
• How will meeting with your peer group support you in achieving your goals?
• Imagine yourself a year from now and imagine yourself saying, “I feel much more equipped and confident in my role.” How have you grown? What do you have now that you didn’t before we met? How has your HMG changed?
Recording
Slides

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