Sentences with phrase «statewide maternal and child health»

The Nevada Statewide Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Coalition believes that every child deserves a healthy start — it's the best gift a community can give to its children.

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 children.

The NYSBC is an organization made up of lactation consultants, health care providers, regional breastfeeding coaltions and the major statewide maternal and child health organizations.

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She also serves as director on the statewide Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Project and the Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (ReCAPP).

An ambitious evaluation in 1999 of a statewide home visiting program in Hawaii failed to demonstrate any substantial improvements in either maternal or child development and health outcomes.18 Although these findings contradicted previous smaller studies and evaluations of earlier pilot programs, the comprehensiveness of this evaluation led to further examination of the evidence base for home visiting.

Our work is grounded in the belief that every child deserves to be surrounded by supportive, safe environments and that every parent and primary care provider should have easily accessible information and tools to help make that possible.It is our hope that innovative work in addressing maternal mental health and our other initiatives in the greater Denver metro area will yield results that can be replicated statewide, nationally and even internationally.

The summit is a collaborative effort of key statewide groups in maternal and child health, prevention and early intervention, infant mental health, school readiness and early childhood development.

The conference, which will feature more than 40 workshops and five plenaries, is a collaborative effort of key statewide groups in maternal & child health, prevention & early intervention, school readiness and early child development, including:

The conference is a collaborative effort of key statewide groups in maternal & child health, prevention & early intervention, infant mental health, school readiness and early child development.