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Virtual Grantee Meeting 2020 – Day One
June 24, 2020
Movement & Meditation
Each morning of the Virtual Grantees’ Meeting, Dr. Deborah Teplow provided thirty-minute Movement & Meditation (M&M) session for attendees. These sessions were optional and explored how the science of behavior change can help you incorporate physical activity and mindfulness into your daily life.
Speakers:
Deborah Teplow, PhD, Institute for Wellness Education
Plenary Sessions
Speakers:
Tom J. Engels, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Michael D. Warren, MD, MPH, FAAP, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)
Lee A. Wilson, Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services (DHSPS)
Scott D. Berns, MD, MPH, FAAP, National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ)
Deborah Frazier, National Healthy Start Association (NHSA)
In this plenary session MCHB’s Associate Administrator introduced the Bureau’s strategic planning process and share ways to provide input. In addition, DHSPS leadership will provide updates related to the Healthy Start Program.
Speakers:
Michael D. Warren, MD, MPH, FAAP, MCHB Johannie Escarne, MPH, DHSPS
For a long time, this country has been addressing disparities in health that have led to poorer outcomes for people of color in this country, especially African Americans. And today there’s an alarm ringing that we need to pay attention to Black maternal mortality. How can you address health equity efficiently without exploring the question that asks why these disparities exist in the first place? Racism creates inequalities that lead to inequities in health outcomes and produce health disparities. Dr. Jones’ plenary examines how racism and the social determinants of health – including poverty and homelessness – negatively impact access to quality health care. She will outline opportunities to eliminate barriers in achieving health equity across the United States and offer tools to improve health equity for all.
Speakers:
Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, Morehouse School of Medicine
This session focuses on the importance of quality, timely data to support Healthy Start. Participants heard about the 2017 National Healthy Start Evaluation Findings and learn about future data activities.
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Speakers
Lee A. Wilson, DHSPS
Lunch Networking Cafés
Speakers:
Tamela Milan, MPPA, Westside Healthy Start
Speakers:
Kenn L. Harris, NICHQ
Speakers:
Sheree Keitt, DrPH, MPH, CHES, National Healthy Start Association
Speakers:
Cynthia Dean, Missouri Bootheel Healthy Start
TA / Skills-building Breakout Session Topics
This session will provide a historic overview of the Healthy Start program and will review Healthy Start fundamentals and strategies in carrying out program activities for new and existing Healthy Start projects. Participants will hear about strategies that aim to strengthen program activities; improve performance outcome; and help promote and strengthen services for women, children and fathers.
Speakers:
Cardora Barnes, MS & Brandon Wood, MHS, MBA, DHA, DHSPS
Deborah Frazier, NHSA
Breastfeeding is well-established by all national and global health experts as the optimal form of infant nutrition. The pathogen-specific antibodies in human milk help infants establish a strong immune system and a healthy microbiome. These lifelong health benefits can mitigate the disadvantages of vulnerable situations. During a pandemic, the importance of breastfeeding is even more pronounced. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health authorities continue to recommend that mothers breastfeed, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. During times of crisis and emergency, however, vulnerable families are especially at risk of negative outcomes, and may find it more challenging to access appropriate and timely breastfeeding support and help. This session addresses the importance of breastfeeding, and current recommendations for breastfeeding and milk expression during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will address the role of Healthy Start staff in promoting and supporting breastfeeding during the pandemic, and practical ways to reach out to families during these high-risk and unsettling times. This includes early strategies for getting a great start, engaging partners and family members, and resources for connecting families to needed support.
Speakers:
Cathy Carothers, BLA, IBCLC, FILCA, Co-Director of Every Mother, Inc.
Resources:
Breastfeeding During COVID Breakout Slides
Supporting Breastfeeding during the COVID-19 Pandemic Handout
Speakers:
Donna M. Mertens, PhD, Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University
Resources:
NACCHO’s Mobilizing for Action Through Planning and Partnerships, or MAPP, is a widely used community-focused, result-oriented strategic planning process for engaging cross-sectoral partners and people with lived experience to improving population health. In this session, NACCHO will provide an overview of the framework as a way to help enhance and strengthen Healthy Start Community Action Networks (CANs). Key MAPP components will be shared, including on engaging partners and community members, ensuring that community voice is honored throughout the process; developing a shared vision; conducting assessments to identify strategic issues; formulating goals and strategies; and implementing and evaluating place-based action plans to meet goals, address strategic issues, improve health equity and achieve the community’s vision for improving health.
Speakers:
Peter L. Holtgrave, MA, MPH, Senior Director of Public Health Infrastructure and Systems at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
Resources:
NACCHO MAPP Training Breakout Slides
This session focuses on creating a sustainable approach to delivering services using technology in an ethical and HIPAA compliant manner. The main focus is be on what is needed to for telemental health services including technology, consents, and safety planning needed to exceed standards. Suggestions will be made to increase confidence and competence with telemental health with a special focus on self care when increasing technology use.
Speakers:
Jana Glass, LPC, MAC, PMH-C, BC-TMH, Postpartum Support International (PSI), Founder of Supportive Solutions
Resources:
This session provided overviews of the Infant-Toddler Court Program and the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs .
Speakers:
Lynlee Tanner Stapleton, MCHB/Division of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems
Robin Y. McDonald, Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Resources:
Wrap-Up
Speakers:
Kenn Harris, NICHQ
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