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Kathleen Buckley, MSN CNM, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program, 409 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20024, 2028631630, kbuckley@acog.org, Ann Koontz, DrPH, CNM, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, and Sarah Shaefer, PhD RN, Health Care Answers, PO Box 44007, Baltimore, MD 21236.

The recent national evaluation of the FIMR methodology has documented that FIMR is an effective perinatal systems initiative. New qualitative data analysis of FIMR programs sheds light on an element of that effectiveness. One of the emerging strengths of local FIMR programs is the successful development of health education messages that are culturally and linguistically relevant in communities with many different cultural groups. According to the findings of 110 FIMR programs, 60% FIMR programs reported being located in communities with 3 or more ethnic groups. Of these programs, fully 59% are engaged in developing culturally relevant educational materials. The purpose of this poster is to describe the community based FIMR approach to implementing a wide range of important health education messages (including SIDS risk reduction, preterm labor prevention, alcohol and drug cessation) and present examples of how these messages have been tailored to different ethnic groups in the same community. Lessons learned from these data will be used to develop national recommendations that can be adopted by other FIMR programs that wish to address multi-cultural populations in their communities.

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