Baby Basics

Baby Basics is a set of materials (book, planner, posters) and programs designed specifically to provide lower-income and lower-literacy populations with crucial prenatal health information and support. The materials are designed to be beautiful and easy to read, serving as a catalyst for learning and family literacy. Both materials and programs strive to engage and educate underserved parents to become effective users of the healthcare system and advocate for themselves and their families.

Prenatal Care and Education

Implementation of Healthy Maternity Policies

This webinar highlights successful strategies and best practices that have been implemented in the North Dakota and Nevada state health agencies to encourage breastfeeding and to help new parents return to work. In addition, Virginia describes how they work with businesses in their state to develop breastfeeding policies.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Provide an overview of ASTHO’s environmental scan of worksite wellness programs and policies in state health agencies
  2. Provide examples of how state health agencies can support and implement effective healthy maternity policies within their department.
  3. Provide examples of how state health agencies can support local business to develop and implement their own healthy maternity policies.

Breastfeeding EBP Implementation

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health at Georgetown University

Provides national leadership to the MCH community around program development, as well as education and state-of-the-art knowledge, to improve the health and well-being of the nation’s children and families. Links to the Center’s MCH Library, National Action Plan to Promote Safe Sleep (NAPPSS), and Health Information Group.

Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning

National Healthy Start Association (NHSA)

NHSA is committed to improving birth outcomes and health disparities that exist within communities of color throughout the US. As the membership association for Healthy Start programs nationwide, NHSA promotes the development of community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of infant mortality, low birth weight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.

Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning

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