This webinar will focus on important postpartum issues, including maintaining physical and emotional health, breastfeeding, reproductive life planning, and care of the newborn.
Webinar Materials:
Benchmark: Reproductive Life Plan
Increase the proportion of Healthy Start women participants who have a documented reproductive life plan to 90%
A reproductive life plan is a set of personal goals about having (or not having) children, accompanied by family planning intended to help achieve those goals. The CDC recommends that everyone make a reproductive life plan based on personal values and resources. Reproductive life plans reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and increase the number of women who plan their pregnancies, and engage in healthy behaviors before becoming pregnant.
A Performance Measure Resource Sheet is available summarizing recommended strategies and a selection of resources and evidence-based practices related to this benchmark to aid Healthy Start grantee organizations, partners and their staff in supporting the women and families they serve.
Featured Resource: Evidence-Based Practice
My Reproductive Life Plan
Downloadable Reproductive Life Plan (RPL) Worksheet for individuals and RPL Tool for healthcare providers, designed to help individuals develop a personal reproductive life plan.
Ask the Expert: Preconception Care
This webinar focuses on the basic elements of preconception care and why incorporating them into Healthy Start is essential to fulfilling the mission of decreasing infant mortality. The logistics of recruiting participants who are not pregnant into Healthy Start programs and managing their issues is discussed, along with case studies illustrating ways in which this can be done.
Webinar Materials:
Chronic Disease Healthy Weight Insurance Coverage Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
Healthy Start Regional Meeting (LA, AL, MS, AR)
Meeting Materials:
- Regional Meeting Information
- Healthy Start Year II – Direction and Priorities | EPIC Center Services Handout | EPIC Center Slides
- Preconception/Interconception Care Communication Planning Workshop | Slides | Communications Plan Handout | Grantees Communication Showcase
- Overview of Healthy Start Data Reporting | Slides
- Healthy Start Monitoring and Evaluation: Best practices, Evidence building, and Case-based solutions | Slides
- National Infant Mortality CoIIN Update | Slides
- State Title V MCH Program & Healthy Start Collaboration | Slides | Handout
Breastfeeding Case Management/Care Coordination Program evaluation Quality Improvement Social Determinants of Health
Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Application of CDC’s Evidence-based Contraception Guidance
The course provides an overview of the current trends in teen pregnancy as well as the efforts health care providers can make among teens to increase use of effective contraception according to the CDC’s Evidence-Based Contraception Guidance. Presented in May, 2014
Learning Objectives:
- Review the trends in teen pregnancy, sexual behavior and contraceptive use.
- Describe current contraceptive methods available to teens.
- Describe the current evidence-based recommendations about the safety and effectiveness of contraceptive methods for teens.
- Provide clinical preventive services to improve outcomes and quality of life.
EBP Implementation Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
ACOG is a professional and membership organization of women’s health care physicians. ACOG’s website includes resources and information for providers on practice management, continuing education, and advocacy, as well as resources for patients.
Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)
AHRP brings together healthcare professionals across disciplines and specialties for evidence-based training and network building. The website includes professional education opportunities, publications and resources on reproductive health topics, and advocacy information.
Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
Before, Between & Beyond Pregnancy
Designed to be a “one-stop” resource for clinicians and others who want to learn more about preconception health, the evidence supporting it, and strategies for incorporating relevant content into clinical practice. The website includes CME opportunities, clinical guidance, resources, and news.
Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
Bright Futures, American Academy of Pediatrics
Bright Futures uses an evidence-driven, developmentally-based approach to address children’s health needs in the context of family and community. The website includes a range of evidence-based resources and systems-oriented tools for health care professionals, parents, and youth-serving organizations striving to improve the health and well-being of all children.
Breastfeeding Chronic Disease Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health
The Division’s three priority areas are: women’s reproductive health; pregnancy health; and infant health. The website contains resources and statistics on, infertility, assisted reproductive technology, depression and postpartum depression, maternal and infant health, SIDS, teen pregnancy, unintended pregnancy, women’s reproductive health, and global reproductive health.
Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
Healthy Babies Project, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
The goal of ASTHO’s Healthy Babies Initiative is to reduce prematurity in the United States. The website includes resources by life stage to help achieve this goal.
Breastfeeding Chronic Disease Life Course Model Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning