Search Results: MCH Organizations

Annotation: The National Healthy Start Association (NHSA) provides leadership and advocacy for health equity, services, and interventions that improve birth outcomes and family wellbeing. NHSA activities include an evaluation work group to establish the Healthy Start design as a evidence-based model, a health care navigator program, a leadership training institute, an infant mortality awareness campaign, a partnership to reduce racial disparities in infant mortality in U.S. urban areas, male involvement projects, and a campaign to promote preconception health and health care. The website includes newsletters, issue briefs, white papers, a calendar of events, training toolkits, links to related websites, press releases, a video, and blog. Information on how to become a NHSA member and how to make a donation are also provided.

Keywords: Access to health care, Community based services, Ethnic factors, Infant mortality, Low birthweight infants, Pregnancy outcome, Prevention programs, Race, Technical assistance

Annotation: The Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a national organization convened by major civil rights and antipoverty groups. The purpose of the Council is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to address problems at the intersections of race and poverty. Activities include funding and commissioning research tied to local, state, and national advocacy strategies; enhancing communications between advocates and social science researchers; disseminating ideas and materials; holding conferences; and publishing materials with a focus on issues of race and poverty. Services to consumers include referrals and reference information, and publications include a bimonthly newsletter, a journal, reports, and handbooks.

Keywords: Advocacy, Minority groups, Poverty, Race, Research