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B. Coordinate with tribal partners and organizations providing services to Native Americans, and support community coordinators to follow up at the community level.

C. Continue to enhance coordination with DTA and DCF regional staff to ensure referral services to WIC are strengthened.

D. Collaborate with other program units to update and distribute the WIC & Clinicians: Partners in Good Health resource, which highlights pertinent information for outreach to healthcare providers. Continue to provide technical assistance to community coordinators on building and maintaining provider relationships.

E. Collaborate with Policy, Marketing, and Training to provide updates to the WIC website.

VII. To collaborate with Systems, other WIC units, Bureau of Family Health & Nutrition, BFHN Office of Data Translation, other DPH programs, and external partners on utilization of WIC data.

A. Collaborate with other units to review, evaluate and enhance current reports, and develop new reports, as needed.

B. Collect and analyze WIC administrative data to determine patterns in participation and redemption and to develop strategies to improve operational outcomes.

C. Collaborate with other WIC and DPH units on review and approval of research and other studies utilizing confidential WIC Program data.

D. Collaborate with the Massachusetts Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention to conduct outreach to women who have children with birth defects.

E. Collaborate with Systems to review and respond to data requests from local programs and other agencies or organizations.

F. Collaborate with the Bureau of Family Health & Nutrition’s Massachusetts Home Visiting Program to enhance cross-referrals between WIC and home visiting programs.

VIII. To support the attainment of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) Immunization Program goal: age-appropriate immunization for 90% of WIC infants and children.

A. Collaborate with the Massachusetts Immunization Program (MIP) and local programs to ensure newly hired WIC staff have access to the Massachusetts Immunization Information System (MIIS) Registry to view immunization histories of WIC participants and to provide assessments, education, and referrals.

B. Provide local program immunization rates for the percentage of children complete with the Primary Series at 24 months.