The Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau awarded a contract to Altarum Institute to facilitate the implementation of the Maternal and Child Health Training Program’s National Strategic Plan and the achievement of the plan’s goals through establishment of the Maternal and Child Health Training Resource Center. Activities of the resource center focus on performance measure reporting, data analysis, information management, and collaboration and strategic partnership development. As part of this contract, Altarum conducts an annual review of performance measure data for the 123 training program grantees throughout the nation, identifies benchmarks and baseline data sources for strategic plan goals and objectives, and develops recommendations for improvements in grantee reporting requirements. Additionally, Altarum developed and facilitates multiple grantee workgroups, one of which is focused on reporting and monitoring and is charged with creating strategies and measures to assess and monitor the progress of MCH training grantees in achievement of overall training program goals and individual program objectives. Another grantee workgroup is charged with development of a comprehensive plan for increasing diversity of trainees and faculty in the MCH training program.