The NJDOH collaborates with many other federal, state, and non-governmental partners to complement Title V program efforts to provide a systems approach to ensure access to quality care and needed services for the MCH population. Through the First Lady's Nurture NJ, a statewide awareness campaign committed to reducing maternal and infant mortality and ensuring equitable care among women and children of all races and ethnicities, the NJDOH has partnered with other state departments and agencies, including health systems, physicians and midwives, doulas, community organizations, and most importantly, mothers and their families to make a transformational change in a system that has historically failed mothers and babies.

The Nurture NJ Strategic Plan was released in January 2021. It requires all sectors, including health and Title V, as well as education, housing, business, government, justice, and others, to join forces. This Strategic Plan was developed to reduce NJ's maternal mortality by 50% over five years and eliminate racial disparities in birth outcomes. This plan culminated over a year of in-person and virtual meetings with over 100 critical stakeholders, including national public health experts, NJ state departments and agencies, health systems, physicians, doulas, community organizations, and mothers and families. The plan seeks to reduce maternal mortality and eliminate racial disparities by ensuring all women are healthy and have access to care before pregnancy.  In addition, the plan includes the strengthening of a safe, high-quality, equitable system of care for all women prenatally through postpartum care and a plan to ensure supportive community environments are cultivated during every other part of a woman's life so that conditions and opportunities for health are always available. Nurture NJ partners continue to work together to implement the recommendations.

In June 2021, NJDOH launched the NJMCQC, a 34-member of legislated State Maternal Health Task Force. Assistant Commissioner Nancy Scotto-Rosato, also the Title V Director, engages in multiple MCQC-related activities and supervises the Team that conducts MCQC-related activities within FHS. The NJ MCQC is part of the HRSA-funded SMHIP, a selective innovation program to complement ongoing Title V programs nationwide. The NJMCQC coordinates efforts and strategies to reduce maternal mortality, morbidity, and racial and ethnic disparities within the state. The NJMCQC works collaboratively with TVP and other organizations, such as the Perinatal Quality Collaborative, involved in developing and implementing maternal mortality and morbidity reduction strategies within the state. The NJMCQC convenes quarterly to promote buy-in, implement the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan, translate data into action, strategize on future activities, and solicit funding opportunities. The vision to make NJ the safest and most equitable place in the nation to give birth and raise a baby is at the forefront of the work of the NJMCQC and is supported by TVP.

Moreover, in FY23, in partnership with the Governor's Office (GOV), the Office of the First Lady, DCF, DHS, and lead by DOH   developed a State Action Plan to promote healthy development and family recovery for infants, children, parents, and caregivers affected by prenatal substance exposure. In FY24, the Team will start implementing the Action Plan. The appointed Team Leads across each department are well-versed in coordination and community capacity building. Moreover, they have solid partnerships with key stakeholders and state leaders to enact the State Action Plan successfully.

Lastly, private foundations work collaboratively with NJDOH and TVP to complement and coordinate funding priorities. For example, the NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance, a coalition of private funders, contributes funding towards community doula efforts through the NJ Doula Learning Collaborative and the NJ Health Care Quality Institute, to develop model hospital policies related to doula access.