Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #119022

Carol M. Brady, BS, MA, Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition, 6850 Belfort Oaks Place, Jacksonville, FL 32216, 904-279-0620, cbrady@nefhsc.org

The Magnolia Project uses a preconceptional strategy to address racial disparities in birth outcomes in an at-risk community of Jacksonville, Florida. The project has adapted traditional federal Healthy Start models (outreach, case management and risk reduction, health education, enhanced clinical services, community development) to address risks in women of childbearing age who are not pregnant, but who could become pregnant in the near future. The project was developed using findings from an analysis of the Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) and FIMR case reviews. A multi-agency, collaborative staffing model is used to deliver services at a neighborhood storefront site. Project interventions have been successful in addressing key risk factors associated with poor outcomes (family planning, repeat STIs) among participants. The Magnolia Project demonstrates opportunities in the current health care delivery system for working with women to mitigate risks before they become pregnant.

Learning Objectives:

• 3. Participants will acquire information about how a mother’s health prior to pregnancy is associated with poor outcomes.
  7. Participants will be able to identify three interventions used by the Magnolia Project to address pre-pregnancy risk factors in Jacksonville, Florida.
  11. Participants will be able to describe two opportunities for intervening with at-risk women prior to pregnancy in their local public health system.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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