As
a maternal health advocate and therapist Ginger is also a regularly invited blogger for international groups that advocate for social justice and policy, including Caring Economy and Center for Partnership Studies, National Association for Mothers Centers (now MOM - Mentum), and American Mothers.
Maternal health advocates say listening to such voices is a critical step in addressing how disparities in race, income and education affect outcomes.
Not exact matches
She answers reader - submitted running questions (for example: «How to Bounce Back from a Bad Race like a Badass»), shares her thoughts via journal entries and poems, and is a vocal
advocate for clean competition, supporting women in sport, and
maternal health around the world.
So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian
advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of
maternal, newborn, and child
health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve
maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.
Melinda Gates, a passionate
advocate for improved
maternal and infant care worldwide, puts it this way: «To help women and children fulfill their potential, we need to make sure they can receive the right kind of
health care at every phase of their lives.
We knew, therefore, that parenting programmes that foster paternal responsiveness and involvement — and interventions in
maternal and child
health settings, schools etc where men are viewed as allies and
advocates for their children's (and their children's mothers») welfare — ought to be beneficial.
Linda is a passionate
advocate for
maternal health issues.
Dottie has spent her entire career working in
maternal child
health and has long been an
advocate for children and their families.
In 2005, she began working with the international humanitarian organization CARE and has since become their
Advocate for
Maternal Health.
Developed by a multidisciplinary group of academics, researchers, women and child
health advocates, clinicians and policy - makers, the collaborative approach to this series has resulted in the creation of a framework for quality
maternal and newborn care.
She is a birth doula,
maternal mental
health advocate, and researcher.
We also sponsor networking and training opportunities for maternity care professionals, including our annual Mother - Friendly Childbirth Symposium, The Birthing Justice Forum, Annual
Maternal - Child
Health Advocate Awards Recognition, and seminars to support perinatal professional collaboration and continuing education.
The Nevada Statewide
Maternal and Child
Health Coalition works with community partners to advocate for preconception health, developmental screening, breastfeeding, physical activity, and more for mothers and chi
Health Coalition works with community partners to
advocate for preconception
health, developmental screening, breastfeeding, physical activity, and more for mothers and chi
health, developmental screening, breastfeeding, physical activity, and more for mothers and children.
From June 2015 - June 2016, the Task Force, consisting of more than 20 appointed members from various stakeholder organizations as well as
advocates and mothers, convened to study the
maternal mental
health landscape in California.
Ohio
Advocates for Medical Freedom invites you to our 2018
Health Directions Conference, which will equip you with science - based information on maternal, fetal, and infant immune h
Health Directions Conference, which will equip you with science - based information on
maternal, fetal, and infant immune
healthhealth.
Today, as a doula,
maternal health spokesperson and
advocate, I have witnessed firsthand how the conversation is shifting towards a more open and honest dialogue about the state of
maternal mental
health in the U.S.. Now, more than ever, we have to keep working and fighting to affect change in the field.
When it comes to being more supportive to mothers,
advocating for more awareness of
maternal mental
health, and stopping the perpetuation of the stigma of
maternal mental
health, I encourage us to start with these two strategies:
This toolbox is an online resource for
Maternal and Child
Health researchers, academics, practitioners, policy
advocates, and others in the field to share information, innovative strategies, and tools to integrate the Life Course Perspective into MCH work at the local, state, and national levels.
This policy statement from the AAP
advocates a public
health response to the opioid epidemic and substance use during pregnancy, and recommends: a focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and improving access to contraception; universal screening for alcohol and other drug use in women of childbearing age; knowledge and informed consent of
maternal drug testing and reporting practices; improved access to prenatal care, including opioid replacement therapy; gender - specific substance use treatment programs; and improved funding for social services and child welfare systems.
Cindy Herrick Cindy Herrick is a mom, teacher, musician, researcher, entrepreneur and
maternal mental
health advocate.
Over the past 30 years, Kay Johnson has become nationally recognized for her work in
maternal and child
health policy, as a researcher,
advocate and consultant.
How to develop a strategic plan that clarifies and prioritizes long - term shared goals and outcomes across home visiting programs,
maternal and child
health service providers,
advocates, and other stakeholders.
Founded in 2007 by Kimberly Wong, Esq.,
Maternal Mental Health NOW is a volunteer network of over 200 individuals representing more than 50 public, private, and community agencies as well community leaders, research partners and advocates for mothers, infants and families, survivors of maternal depression and affected family
Maternal Mental
Health NOW is a volunteer network of over 200 individuals representing more than 50 public, private, and community agencies as well community leaders, research partners and
advocates for mothers, infants and families, survivors of
maternal depression and affected family
maternal depression and affected family members.
Intensive Treatment Programs:
Advocate for additional hospital based inpatient and outpatient
maternal mental
health treatment programs.
Advocate for including adequate
maternal mental
health training as curriculum for medical and social work school programs, and first responder training.
You are a survivor or maternity
health care professional or
advocate who wants to educate your elected officials about
maternal health issues like
maternal mental
health disorders, birth trauma and near - death experiences.