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Session: Creating Leadership in the Community- Lessons Learned from the Maternal and Child Health Community Leadership Institute
3316.1: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
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Creating Leadership in the Community- Lessons Learned from the Maternal and Child Health Community Leadership Institute
This session will describe lessons learned from APHA's Maternal and Child Health Community Leadership Institute. The Institute, funded, by the Colgate Palmolive Company was designed to build the capacity of participating teams to advance the Healthy People 2010 maternal and child health objectives with a particular focus on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities.
Learning Objectives: Participants will: 1. Identifying "best practices" and benchmarks for achieving the Healthy People MCH 2010 Objectives 2. Understanding the application of social scientific knowledge to a practice 3. Discussing the importance and applicability of the concepts - social and human capital -- to maternal and child health practice and interventions 4. Examining how the Institute helped participants enhance the well-being of women and children in their community
Organizer(s):Monica Lathan, MPH
Moderator(s):Phyllis E. Kaye, MPA
4:30 PMPositive Outcomes of the MCH Community Leadership Institute
Sandra M. Pak, MPH
4:50 PMSocial Capital and Perinatal Health  [ Recorded presentation ]
Melissa Selbst, MPH, CHES
5:10 PMCommunity Breastfeeding Coalition Building: Implementing an Iowa Model in New York
Julia D Block, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:APHA-Science Board
CE Credits:Nursing, Nursing

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