On November 16-18, 2015, all Healthy Start grantees attended the 2015 Healthy Start Convention: Achieving Measurable Outcomes that Make a Difference for Women, Families, and Communities in Washington, DC.
The purpose of the Convention was to convene the Healthy Start grantee community to build momentum, garner synergy, and propel the Healthy Start initiative towards greater success in improving perinatal health outcomes by sharing best practices, building skills, and increasing knowledge for providing high-quality services to women and their families.
Materials from the Convention are available below.
Plenary Sessions
- Convention Welcome | Opening Slides
- Data for Decision Making and Healthy Start | Science of Healthy Start Slides
- Implementing Healthy Start: National Perspectives
- Keynote Plenary: Marketing & Communication Strategies that Work | Slides
Breakout Session I: Collective Impact Peer Learning Network (PLN)
Breakout Session II: Quality Improvement to Strengthen Service Delivery
- Making Sense of Your Data | Slides | PME Steps Handout | Presentation References
- Introduction to Building an Organizational Culture of Quality Improvement | Slides | Session Notes
- Enhancing a Culture of Quality (Advanced) | Slides
- Linking Health Start Benchmarks, PDSA Cycles, and Measuring Impact | Slides | Flow Chart | Benchmark Statistics | PRAMS Handout
- Evaluating Collective Impact | Slides | Handout
- When to Adopt, Adapt, or Abandon in the PDSA Process | Slides | Cox Slides
- From Complex to Concrete: Teaching PDSA to Your Direct Service Staff (Train-the-Trainer) | Slides | Handout
Breakout Session III: Enhancing Quality Service Delivery (Resources, Training, and Information)
- The Reproductive Life Plan: From Concept to Practice | Slides
- Literacy from 0-24 Months & Well Child Visits | Slides
- Using the Empowerment Model for Referral and Follow-up
- Motivational Interviewing: Conversations that Promote Smoking Cessation | Open-Ended Questions Handout | Observer Handout | Web Resources
- Implementing Evidence-Based Programs | Session Notes
- Breastfeeding Support and Safe Sleep | Daniels Slides | Bronheim Slides
Breakout Session IV: Strengthening Communication/Marketing Strategies
- Launching Evaluation Results – What Next? (Dissemination Plans) | Beasley Slides | Bragg Slides
- Publishing Basics: Effectively Expressing What the Data Says and What People Say About Your Services | Kogan Slides | Berry Slides
- Developing Your Elevator Speech | Slides
- Using Presentation Software to Resonate | Slides
- Writing for Your Audience | Slides | NIH Plain Language Checklist | HRSA Plain Language Checklist
- Getting Started with Social Media | Slides | HIV Prevention Goes Social: Using Social to Create, Connect, and Come Together | HIV Prevention Goes Social Part II: Social Media Strategy, Policy & Monitoring Workbook
- Innovative Marketing Strategies for Special Populations | Presentation
Project Management 101
- Project Management: A Healthy Start | Slides | Project Director Panel Transcript | Project Director Panel Main Points
Topics:
Breastfeeding
Communication
Program evaluation
Quality Improvement
Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning
Approaches:
Achieve Collective Impact
Improve Women's Health
Increase Accountability
Promote Quality
Strengthen Family Resilience
Benchmarks:
CAN Implementation
Father/Partner Parenting Involvement
Father/Partner Prenatal Involvement
Initiating Breastfeeding
Participant Membership in CAN
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
Reading to Child Daily
Reproductive Life Plan
Sustaining Breastfeeding