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A Bright New Year!
The National PCHHC Initiative has catapulted into 2016 - and the momentum is only increasing! With strategic organizational and communications plans, combined with new and renewed partner efforts, we are looking forward to an exciting year. With major clinical, consumer and data projects underway along with plans to engage a policy network and the release of an MCH community call to action commentary, the New Year promises to be one to watch. We hope you'll join us as we make this a year to remember!
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The Well-Woman Project
The Well-Woman Project, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, seeks to gather stories from women, nationwide, about factors that affect their ability to seek and receive health care, especially preventive health care or well-woman care.
The Well-Woman Project team hopes colleagues across the country will join them in engaging women's voices. Tell Us Your Story! Promotional materials are available in English and in Spanish. For more information, contact Regan Johnson at regan.johnson@unmc.edu with questions. Learn more at wellwomanstory.org
The Well-Woman Project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois School of Public Health and CityMatCH. Information collected through this and all portions of the Well-Woman project will be used to develop women's health/preventive health care educational materials for use by local health departments, health providers, and policy makers.
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Show Your Love Phase II is Underway - Join Us!
Valentine's Day 2013, the Consumer Workgroup of the PCHHC launched Show Your Love (SYL), a national campaign designed to improve the health of young men and women to promote optimal preconception health and reproductive life planning. Since that time, thousands of partners and consumers have viewed materials that were developed. SYL posters, podcasts, brochures and more are available at cdc.gov/ShowYourLove. Gearing up for another launch with www.ShowYourLoveToday.com coming this spring and a holistic social media and communications campaign, the PCHHC Initiative is working to diversify Show Your Love messages and materials to better resonate with more populations and communities across the country.
The PCHHC Initiative recently received funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to allow us to fund up to 10 projects that will help diversify preconception wellness and reproductive life planning messages and improve our shared capacity to reach, engage, and activate different consumer groups.
We received numerous Show Your Love Diversification Grant applications and will be funding some great projects. But, we are still looking for more organizations to help us fully tailor our messages for specific audiences. Please review the Show Your Love Diversification Mini-Grant Program and apply: beforeandbeyond.org/show-your-love-diversification-mini-grant-program/. Applications are due Monday, February 8th at midnight.
Target populations of interest include men and women ages 18-29 who are: Native Hawaiian or Pacific-Islander, American Indian, Hispanic or Latino, and/or Asian American. In particular, we are concentrating efforts on communities that have higher risks for unintended pregnancies and/or poor maternal and infant outcomes.
Interested in joining forces or helping PCHHC amplify our messages? Email Suzanne Woodward (Suzannew@Med.unc.edu). More about Show Your Love here.
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North Carolina Preconception Health Campaign
The March of Dimes North Carolina Preconception Health Campaign (NCPHC) educates women about the benefits of being healthy before pregnancy. The goals of the Campaign are to reduce infant mortality, birth defects, premature birth, and chronic health conditions in women while also aiming to increase intended pregnancies. Working to improve women's wellness and reproductive outcomes, and reduce racial and ethnic health disparities, NCPHC's key focus areas are folic acid/nutrition, healthy weight, tobacco cessation, reproductive life planning, early prenatal care, and women's health expansions through the Affordable Care Act.
The North Carolina Preconception Health Campaign designed the "Healthy
Before Pregnancy" school-based curriculum to reach young women and men with important health messages well before they become pregnant. The "Healthy Before Pregnancy" goals are to: increase students' knowledge of the various pathways that can lead to poor birth outcomes; increase students' knowledge about how their current lifestyle and health choices can impact their future reproductive outcomes; and give students the knowledge and skills they need to plan their "healthy" reproductive lives. You can find the "Healthy
Before Pregnancy" curriculum and resources here.
Be sure to tune-in to the "March of Dimes North Carolina Preconception Health Campaign Webinar Series" on January 28 th, February 29th, and March 16th. These free webinars will cover the NC Preconception Peer Education Program, Cultural Diversity for Latino Women, and HPV Prevention, respectively. This series focuses on improving the health of women prior to pregnancy and the goal is to encourage providers to promote preconception health as part of their routine visits with all patients of reproductive age. Click here for more information.
NCPHC Regional Coordinators are expert health educators that deliver customized trainings to consumers and providers in-person across all 100 North Carolina counties. Each training covers a preconception health campaign topic of interest. Coordinators also support and promote other local, regional, and statewide preconception health initiatives.
NCPHC's Promotoras educate 1,200 Latino women yearly about folic acid supplementation, healthy weight, and reproductive life planning. Promotoras also deliver multivitamins with folic acid to these women through the NCPHC statewide multivitamin distribution program. Along with providing multivitamins with folic acid to women of childbearing age via local health departments, this program also provides technical assistance to enhance the agencies' training to their clients about the benefits of folic acid.
For more information about the North Carolina Preconception Health Campaign please visit EveryWomanNC.org or call (919) 424-2158. Funding is earmarked by the North Carolina General Assembly and provided by the NC Division of Public Health. |
About the Newsletter
Thanks for reading! Is your organization doing exciting work to promote preconception health? We would love to feature you in an upcoming newsletter! Email pchhcnews@gmail.com for details, or if you have any questions about the newsletter.
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