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Healthy Start

Healthy Start. By: Kristy Locklear. Mission. The mission of Healthy Start CORPS is to enhance the perinatal service system in Robeson County while strengthening community empowerment. Goal.

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Healthy Start

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  1. Healthy Start By: Kristy Locklear

  2. Mission • The mission of Healthy Start CORPS is to enhance the perinatal service system in Robeson County while strengthening community empowerment.

  3. Goal • The goal of the program is to reduce the number of infant deaths and low-birth weight babies in Robeson County by providing case management services to females for up to twenty-four (24) months after delivery while providing the community with health education classes on nutrition, self-esteem, HIV/STD, Drugs and Alcohol, preterm birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum depression while maintaining strong linkages with local and State Title V perinatal services.

  4. Services Healthy Start CORPS can provide you with linkage and referrals to intensive case mangement services. Provided by: Lay Health Advisors offer community health education programs presented to consumer groups, churches, clubs, organizations and schools on: Nutrition Self Esteem Drugs and Alcohol HIV / AIDS and STD's Breastfeeding Postpartum Depression Preterm Birth • Registered Nurse • Social Worker • Community Outreach Worker

  5. Target Population • Healthy Start CORPS serves a targeted population of females and males parents aged 14 to 44.

  6. Fact Sheet • The United States ranks 30th of industrial nations in Infant Mortality Rates. • Infant Mortality Rate of African Americans is 13.4 deaths per l,000 births. • United States infant mortality rate is 7.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. • North Carolina infant mortality rate is 8.5 infants deaths per 1,000 live births. • Robeson County is 14.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births.

  7. Fact Sheet Cont. Fatherhood Factors in Maternal and Infant Health Challenges and Barriers Inability to afford medical care Lack of knowledge about available services Rural area with poor living condition Limited perinatal resources Low education levels Poor diets, smoking, & other risk factors. Women who believe early prenatal/ interconceptional care is not necessary • Infant mortality rates are 1.8 times higher for infants of unmarried mothers than for married mothers. • Unmarried mothers are less likely to obtain prenatal care and more likely to have a low birth-weight baby. • Single mothers were twice as likely as married mothers to experience depression.

  8. FUTUREDIRECTION

  9. Fatherhood T/ANeeds • Sustainability • Resource Development around Male • Involvement • Intake Form • Roadmap &Assignment • Staff Development & Training • Fatherhood Historical forNHSA • Consortium Development

  10. Strategies • Male Involvement Development • – Help men meet their needs economically, educationally, socially, emotionally, physically. • – Increase program capacity to offer comprehensive services that help men meet their needs economically, educationally, socially, emotionally, physically • Social Emotional Financial Medical Outcomes Outcomes Outcomes Outcomes

  11. Healthy Families America • Healthy Families America (HFA) is a nationally recognized evidence-based home visiting program model designed to work with overburdened families who are at-risk for adverse childhood experiences, including child maltreatment. It is the primary home visiting model best equipped to work with families who may have histories of trauma, intimate partner violence, mental health and/or substance abuse issues. HFA services begin prenatally or right after the birth of a baby and are offered voluntarily, intensively and over the long-term (3 to 5 years after the birth of the baby).

  12. References • NationalHealthyStartAssociation. TheRegionalCenterofUNCP:HealthyStartCORPS. www.uncp.edu/healthy_start www.facebook.com/uncphealthy.start • HealthyFamiliesAmerica. www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org

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