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Every Woman Southeast

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Description

Founded in 2009, the Every Woman Southeast Initiative is a multi-state, multi-level partnership helping women improve birth outcomes, such as unintended pregnancies and infant mortality, and addressing the overall wellness of women of reproductive age, including obesity, poverty, chronic disease, and sexually transmitted infections. Minority women in the South, especially African American women, suffer disproportionately in these health disparities. The initiative funds community-based projects to work with traditional and non-traditional partners to improve childbearing, preconception, and interconception health using a life course approach.

Goal / Mission

Every Woman Southeast's goal is to create a diverse partnership across eight Southern states to improve women's health and birth outcomes.

Results / Accomplishments

In phase one, from November 2009 to April 2010, Every Women Southeast formed a compendium of preconception initiatives in all eight states and held its first in-person meeting in March 2010. In phase two, the project released its website, held two webinars, and formed a leadership team, which meets every other week. Every Woman Southeast is currently in phase two, and has decided to focus on increasing the number of women who receive a postpartum visit and reducing the number of short birth intervals in the region for its first collective initiative.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Center for Maternal and Infant Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Primary Contact
Sarah Verbiest
UNC Center for Maternal and Infant Health
Campus Box 7181
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7181
(919) 843-7865
sarahv@med.unc.edu
http://everywomansoutheast.org/contact
Topics
Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health
Health / Women's Health
Economy / Poverty
Organization(s)
Center for Maternal and Infant Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date of implementation
2009
Location
AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN
Target Audience
Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

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A Good Idea meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.
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