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National PCHHC Initiative Newsletter
Spring 2016 
PCHHC Leading the Charge to Advance Preconception Care Across the U.S.

NEW Recommendations for Health Systems to Measure & Index Preconception Wellness on a National Level

Today, the National PCHHC Clinical Workgroup published evidence-based preconception care measures to begin standardizing and measuring care within health systems across the United States. Titled, "Health System Measures to Advance Preconception Wellness," the full list of recommended clinical measures is open-access in Obstetrics & Gynecology  (online & in-print) and can be found at:  http://bit.ly/PCCMeasures.  

Full press release provides more background on these U.S. preconception measures, found HERE. 

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First National Consumer-Focused Preconception Resource & Campaign Coming Soon

 Stay tuned for the official  launch of www.ShowYourLoveToday.com, the first national consumer-focused preconception resource & campaign. 

Show Your Love is a holistic health resource and social media campaign -- going beyond conception and pregnancy planning to support young adults in various aspects of their lives (from navigating insurance and ACA or managing daily life, stress, weight to improving their financial literacy or how to get the most out of their Well Visits). More about Show Your Love here. 

Follow Show Your Love on Twitter (@SYL_Today)

Like Show Your Love on Facebook (Facebook.com/ShowYourLoveToday)

 

Join the love: How will you #ShowYourLoveToday?

 

NOW RECRUITING: Show Your Love Ambassadors

 
As part of the Show Your Love social media campaign, PCHHC is recruiting Show Your Love Ambassadors: a diverse group of young adults ages 18-29 who will help model and promote healthy behaviors and life choices online and in their communities.

Ambassadors will receive Show Your Love swag, share their health journey on their social channels, and be prominently featured on the Show Your Love and partner sites. No time/monetary requirements to participate. More here. 

Interested in nominating or becoming a Show Your Love Brand Ambassador? Email Suzanne Woodward (Suzannew@Med.unc.edu) for more information. 

Show your love is the first national consumer-focused preconception campaign designed to promote wellbeing and support young women and men strive to achieve their goals and make healthy lifestyle choices today.

The (updated) Well-Woman Project
 
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. 

These stories will be used to create a variety of tools to improve access to well-woman care in eight cities around the country, as well as nationally. 
 
Each month, women who participate have a chance to win a $50 gift card to Walmart or Target. Now there are three easy ways for women to share!
1) By going to  wellwomanstory.org (in English) or mujerbienestar.org (in Spanish) and sharing a "quick response" - one or two sentences about how they experience their health and well-being.
2) By going to  wellwomanstory.org and sharing a story.
3) By calling and leaving a message on the 24/7 phone line, 844-221-1893.

Follow on twitter at @Well_WomanStory! For more information, contact Regan Johnson at regan.johnson@unmc.edu.
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PCHHC Clinical Measures Pilot Project on Preconception Integration
The PCHHC Clinical Workgroup is working with multiple clinics and health care systems across the United States to test the recommended preconception measures and systems for addressing preconception health. Working towards an 'every woman, every time' approach, the workgroup is developing tools to standardize preconception care across systems to begin measuring statewide data. More information about the Clinical Measure Pilot Project HERE.

Interested in joining the Clinical Measure Pilot Project? Email Dr. Daniel Frayne at:  Dan.Frayne@MAHEC.org.
May is National Women's Health Month
National Women's Health Week (#NWHW) just passed, but let's keep the #WomensHealth conversation going! The Office of Women's Health has resources for women of all ages HERE.

If you have not done so, support the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Population Affairs (OPA) by sharing it's Title X clinic locator that helps people locate Title X - funded family planning clinics:  http://thndr.me/Wb4xx0. 
NEW Report: Preconception Care in Publicly Funded
U.S. Clinics That Provide Family
Planning Services 
Read about the prevalence of preconception care delivery among publicly funded clinics, prior to the Federal recommendations for providing quality family planning services (published in 2014). Find the full American Journal of Preventive Medicine paper HERE.
Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women: Reproductive Life Planning to Reduce Unintended
Pregnancy
Members from the PCHHC Clinical Workgroup and Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women published a committee opinion in ACOG about supporting
 womens' access to culturally
appropriate reproductive life planning information and encouraging health providers
to use every patient encounter as an opportunity to talk with patients about their pregnancy intentions. Read the full paper HERE.
NICHD's Moms' Mental Health Matters Initiative
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) recently launched Moms' Mental Health Matters, an initiative designed to educate consumers and health care providers about who is at risk for depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy, the signs of these problems, and how to get help. More information HERE. 
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Free Continuing Education Credits Available at BeforeandBeyond.org
Our Before and Beyond website has free online preconception health learning modules, accredited by Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The free modules offer CME credit for physicians, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants. Two NEW modules will be added this spring. Click here to get started.
Bi-Weekly Preconception Updates to Your In-Box
Preconception health is a constantly evolving field with new advancements all the time. It's hard to keep up! Luckily, CDC offers bi-weekly updates on preconception and interconception health through a listserv. 
To sign up for the updates,
email Cheryl Robbins at ggf9@cdc.gov. 
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