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Session: Giving Our Children a Healthy Start
3109.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Oral
Giving Our Children a Healthy Start
The session abstracts will present : institutional and economic barriers preventing parents from becoming self-sufficient; needs of parts 0-5 to maintain child health and develpment; core components of a support project for NICU parents; and successes and challenges encountered in hospital partnerships for project implementation.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1)Identify three institutional and economic barriers preventing parents from becoming self-sufficient; 2)Identify five needs of parts 0-5 to maintain child health and develpment; 3)Understand the core components of a support project for NICU parents; and 4)Detail successes and challenges encountered in hospital partnerships for project implementation.
Moderator(s):Ramona Lainhart, PhD
10:30 AMFrom conception to baby's first vaccinations: An innovative service delivery model for maternity care
Veronica Barcelona de Mendoza, MSN, MPH, RN, Julie Huff, MSN, RN, Virginia Lee Salb, MS, RN, Maria Drewry, MSN, RN, Laurie Mehalic, BSN, WHNP, RN, Patricia Woollard, BSN, RN, Lilibeth Grandas, BSN, RN
10:45 AMCommunity partnerships to provide preventive care to children in underserved areas
Jane B Bassewitz, MA, Nicole L. Miller, MPH
11:00 AMMarch of Dimes NICU Family Supportsm National Project Rollout: Challenges, Successes and Lessons Learned from Thirteen Hospital Partnerships
Liza G. Cooper, CSW, Ellen Cutler, MPA, Susan Clifford, Scott D. Berns, MD, MPH
11:15 AMProviding access to health and dental care to uninsured children through a public-private partnership  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sandra Stiner Lowe, MA, Theresa Benincasa, PhD, Andrea Lomrantz, MA, Ingrid Parris-Hicklin, CPM
11:30 AMIf you give a man a fish: The need for empowerment focused service delivery for families in San Bernardino County, CA
Heather Diaz, MPH, Julie Pham, BS, Susanne B. Montgomery, PhD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA