Investing in professional development is essential to strengthening Medicaid and human services programs. Helping leaders grow, individually and collectively, can help you manage complexity, build resilient teams, and ensure your agency meets the needs of the millions of people who rely on Medicaid and other essential services.

Through the National Medicaid Leadership Center, the Center for Health Care Strategies offers customized support to Medicaid and human services leaders. Our approach builds individual skills, strengthens team effectiveness, and supports leadership growth at every level of an agency — helping leaders and organizations advance their goals and better serve their communities. If you or your organization are looking to develop leadership skills, build effective teams, or expand the resiliency and agility of your organization, we partner with you to design a service plan built around your goals.


Impact

1.4K

Cross-state agency staff strengthened their skills.

50+

Medicaid executive teams engaged to boost their effectiveness.

435

State government staff supported through 1:1 leadership coaching.

33

States deepened skills via academies and workshops.


Services

We work directly with states and territories to strengthen leadership at the individual, team, and/or agency levels through tailored services. Services can be combined and adapted to support evolving needs and support long-term capacity building:

Leadership Coaching

Our individualized leadership coaching helps you strengthen your effectiveness in demanding roles. Through focused, one-on-one support, we help leaders gain new insight, expand leadership approaches, and build confidence. Since 2009, CHCS has provided 1:1 leadership coaching to more than 400 health and human services leaders.

Executive Team Support

Our customized support helps senior leadership teams build stronger, more cohesive leadership practices. This includes clarifying executive roles and governance responsibilities, strengthening shared norms and decision-making processes, and building core leadership skills. CHCS has supported executive teams in more than 40 Medicaid agencies to strengthen alignment, decision-making, and overall team performance.

Policy Training

Our state-specific policy training helps mid- and senior-level managers build policy knowledge to achieve key goals and see beyond their day-to-day work. Group training is available to Medicaid and partner agency staff as multi-session programs or as customized single sessions. Training can be designed around a unifying theme, such as Medicaid policy, Medicare, and other specialized topics, and can include partners from sister agencies.

Leadership Training

We deliver customized training to strengthen targeted leadership competencies tailored to address specific state or territory priorities. Group training is available to Medicaid and partner agency staff as multi-session programs or as customized single sessions. Trainings are designed for a range of audiences, including emerging leaders, mid-level and senior leaders, and executive leaders, with a focus on leadership skills and competencies critical to leading in a public sector environment.

Organizational Development

Our organizational development support helps agencies strengthen the structures, systems, and processes that enable effective program administration. Our work focuses on aligning organizational design, roles, decision pathways, and priorities with strategic goals to support long-term organizational effectiveness and stability. Since 2019, CHCS has worked with numerous state and local government partners to support organizational development, including Delaware, Indiana, New Jersey, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia.

Strategic Planning

We facilitate tailored strategic planning efforts at the office, division, and department levels, helping organizations define vision, mission, and goals, set objectives, track progress, and prepare leaders for implementation. Since 2019, CHCS has worked with a variety of nonprofit health and human services organizations, including the District of Columbia, Medicaid Medical Directors Learning Network, New England States Consortium Systems OrganizationNew Jersey, and Missouri, to design and implement strategic planning efforts.


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Connect with CHCS

To explore how our team at CHCS can support your state’s leadership and organizational development needs, contact: Lauren Moran, Director, Leadership and Capacity Building, .

About the National Medicaid Leadership Center

The National Medicaid Leadership Center, led by the Center for Health Care Strategies, provides leadership and capacity-building training to help Medicaid and health and human services agency leaders navigate a rapidly evolving health care landscape. The Leadership Center equips state and territory officials to drive meaningful change, strengthen programs, and improve care for the communities they serve. Learn more