Search Results: MCH Organizations

Annotation: The Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children (TLC) promotes optimal human development from preconception through early childhood, offering guidance about consciously conceiving, birthing, and nurturing children. The Alliance synthesyzes age-old wisdom and leading scientific research in its efforts to champion a compassionate culture, capable of enjoying, learning from, and responsively and lovingly interacting with children. TLC hosts an online discussion group, produces an electronic newsletter, and provides parent mentoring and educational services through its WarmLine family support program. The alliance also posts annoted reading lists and publications produced by affiliate organizations.

Keywords: Child care, Community participation, Family support programs, Human development, Infant care, Mentors, Parent education, Parenting, Preconception care, Prenatal care

Annotation: The Asset-Based Community Development Institute works to build community capacity, conduct research, develop students as the next generation of engaged civic leaders and community builders, and produce publications and other resources for practitioners and scholars in the community development field. It shares stories of community groups who are using an asset-based approach to strengthening their communities.

Keywords: Community action, Community participation, Community programs, Model programs

Annotation: The Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) works with community groups, journalists and public health professionals to use the power of the media to advance healthy public policy and help people make their voices heard in a powerful public forum, and increase their participation in the democratic process. BMSG is a project of the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, California. The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation, and around the world. PHI houses a variety of local, statewide, national and international public health research and education projects.

Keywords: Community participation, Mass media, Public policy

Annotation: Community Engaged Scholarship for Health (CES4Health.info) provides a mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing, and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles. The website is a component of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's Faculty for the Engaged Campus project that aims to strengthen career paths in the academy and is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The website contains a products database that can be browsed by category, keyword, author, title, resource type, product type, or methodological approach. Visitors can also save searches to a selected products folder or submit new products. Information about the editorial team and how to be a reviewer is included.

Keywords: Community health, Community participation, Databases, Information sources, Peer review organizations, Professional training, Public private partnerships, Research

Annotation: The Urban Perinatal Education Center (UPEC) in Rhode Island is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming perinatal health, education, and services by emphasizing the importance of "community" to maternal care. UPEC operates with a family-centered, patient-driven, and community-initiated approach, embodying its core intention of "where equity meets community." Services include childbirth education, doula referral requests, an Easy Access Clinic, culturally responsive pregnancy/postpartum education and care, and peer-led support groups such as the Virtual Chocolate Milk Café RI, alongside community events like Community Tabling, Crochet Circles (serving as a panel for shared birthing experiences with Certified Professional Midwives), and Juneteenth Celebrations

Keywords: Community participation, Health equity, Perinatal care, Rhode Island, Urban population

Annotation: West Virginia Community Voices works to improve health care for underserved populations in West Virginia through the development of state and community partnerships. Such partnerships include the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership and the West Virginia Partners for Oral Health. The organization's goals are: (1) improve community capacity to develop and access quality health and social services by mobilizing, promoting and supporting community action; (2) promote policies that improve health care access for children and families; and (3) create the infrastructure to address the health status disparities between minority and white populations.

Keywords: Access to health care, Collaboration, Community participation, Minority groups, Oral health, State organizations, West Virginia