There is significant interest in our region sharing information among states about preconception / women’s wellness initiatives, activities, policies and accomplishments. Webinars are one way we are working to meet this need. The audience for the webinars includes public health leaders, program managers, agency directors, health care providers, and community leaders with an interest in maternal, child and women’s health.
Our latest webinar took place on Thursday February 9th, 2012 from 12-1:30pm EST. The topic was Moving the Life Course Theory into Action.
Speakers included Carol Brady, Executive Director for the Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition, Inc.and Mario Drummonds MS, LCSW, MBA, Director of the Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership (http://www.sisterlink.com), an MCH Life Course Organization . Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill moderated the session.
To view the overview slides and the additional resources slides, please click here.
To view Carol Brady's slides, please click here. To view her biosketch, please click here.
To view Mario Drummonds' slides, please click here. To view his biosketch, please click here, and click here for his photo! For additional information please click here and here.
If you have a topic and/or a program that should be shared in a future webinar, please contact Sarah Verbiest at sarahv [at] med [dot] unc [dot] edu.
Past Webinars
Improving postpartum and interconception care.
This webinar took place on October 13, 2011. To view the webinar flyer and learning objectives, please click here.
To view the introductory slides, please click here.
To view Dr. Jeanne Conry's presentation, please click here. To link to California's Interconception Care Collaborative's newly released postpartum tool kit, please click here.
To view Shaderika Willis' presentation on a North Carolina based postpartum program please click here.
To view North Carolina's Postpartum Booklet in English, please click here. To view the Booklet in Spanish, please click here.
Improving Interconception Care for High-Risk Mothers.
Participants learned about successful program models in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and North Carolina. Click here to view a flyer about the webinar. This webinar took place on Thursday February 10th, 2011. The learning objectives were to a) describe three different models for providing interconception care to new mothers; b) discuss potential barriers and facilitators to serving this population of women; and c) describe potential health benefits for mothers and infants including positive impact of reducing short birth intervals.
Topics and Speakers
- Welcome and Overview – Lori Reeves, March of Dimes, Florida
- Interpregnancy Care Program and Medicaid Pilot Project – Janice Carson, MD with Kaprice Welsh, CNM, MSN, MPH Georgia Department of Community Health and Anne Dunlop, MD, MPH, Emory University School of Medicine
- The MIME and DIME Projects, Serving New Mothers of LBW Infants – Juanita Graham, MSN, RN, Mississippi State Department of Health
- Federal Healthy Start Interconception Initiative, South Carolina Model – Virginia Berry White, Executive Director, Low Country Healthy Start Program
- Postpartum Plus Prevention Program – Lessons Learned – Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH, Executive Director, UNC Center for Maternal & Infant Health
- Update on Every Woman Southeast – Sarah Verbiest
- Questions & Answers – Lori Reeves
State Models for Promoting Preconception Health
The objectives of this webinar were to a) describe three different models for supporting statewide preconception health initiatives, b) discuss potential barriers and facilitators to multi-level partnership building on preconception health, and c) describe how they can become more involved in preconception health initiatives in their state. Participants will also be able to describe the Every Woman Southeast Initiative. This webinar took place on November 4, 2010.
Please feel free to email or call any of the speakers below.
TOPICS and SPEAKERS
- Welcome and Overview of the Every Woman Southeast Initiative – Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH, Executive Director, UNC Center for Maternal & Infant Health
- Expanding Folic Acid Councils to Include Broader Preconception Health Initiatives: the North Carolina Experience - Amy Mullenix, MSW, MSPH, State Coordinator, NC Preconception Health / Folic Acid Campaign.
- Building State and Local Partnerships to Promote Preconception Health: The Florida Experience - Carol Brady, MPH, Executive Director Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition, Inc.
- Broadening the Work of Prematurity and Infant Mortality Partnerships to Address Preconception Health: the Kentucky Experience - Ruth Ann Shepherd, MD Kentucky Division of Public Health and Connie White, MD, Every Woman SE Founding Member
- Expanding State March of Dimes Program Services Committees to Support State Preconception Health Councils – Tracey Reed, Regional Program Director, March of Dimes
With additional funding we hope to be able to institute a series of webinars to allow states to share their successes as well as provide information about lessons learned from projects that may not have been as successful as hoped.
BLOG
The development of the Every Woman Southeast blog was the first step the group took in creating a discussion forum. We hope you’ll take some time to read it and weigh in with your opinions. To link to the blog click here. To sign up for the listserv click here.
WISH
We are excited to announce our partnership with the NC Institute for Public Health and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, MCH Dept in promoting their upcoming 7-part webinar series. To learn more about their series, click on WISH.