As described in the five-year Needs Assessment summary, New York’s priorities for the current five-year grant cycle were driven by this fundamental question: how can we be responsive to the themes voiced by families and communities, within the context of the program infrastructure and resources we have, and with consideration for the national priorities and specific performance measures established by HRSA?

From this question, we endorsed ten crosscutting priorities for NYS’s Title V State Action Plan. These priorities align directly with the ten crosscutting themes identified from family and community members through the NA process described in our NA summary. In turn, we selected five NPMs and developed two additional SPMs as focal points for action. These NPMs and SPMs align with both the priorities voiced by families and community members, and the capacity and mission of our Title V MCHSBG programs.

This approach continued to develop New York’s five-year State Action Plan. The plan is anchored by the 10 broad crosscutting priorities and the seven specific performance measures. The action plan responds to this question: what strategic public health approaches and specific program activities can New York’s Title V Program lead or meaningfully support over the next five years to make measurable progress in the specific areas encompassed by these seven performance measures, in ways that are responsive to the crosscutting priorities voiced by families and community members?

The resulting State Action Plan serves to link the broad, crosscutting priorities identified by families and community members with the specific outcomes encompassed in the selected national and state performance measures. The State Action Plan table presents the strategic public health approaches identified to address each of the national or state performance measures, highlights selected activities and action steps to carry out that strategic approach, and shows how each strategic approach aligns with the crosscutting priorities.

Evidence-based strategy measures (ESMs) were developed for each domain to capture the reach and effectiveness of these strategies for the relevant populations directly served through the Title V MCHSBG program. Specific objectives with measurable improvement targets were developed for each domain to further operationalize the strategies and measures. Wherever possible, these objectives and measures were aligned with the NYS Prevention Agenda to reinforce consistency and synergy with the Title V State Action Plan.

Further detail on specific program and policy activities associated with each of these strategic approaches is described in the narrative by domain below.