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MCFH Coalition Newsletter Read the current Newsletter on line ... or check out our MCFHC Newletter Archive "Mapping a Course"- Educational Series Registration is now open for the Coalition's educational series
"Mapping a Course". Maternal, Child and Family Health Coalition conducted a series of meetings to determine
those things which are barriers to healthy women, children and their families. Four broad topics were named as top items. This series will present information on how a specific
issue within each topic affects the maternal and child health.
Registration fees: How to BUILD ON Your Efforts with Cultural Competence We would like to thank our sponsors for making our first annual conference a huge success. We could not have done it without your support.  and  MCFHC launches Mapping a Course to a Healthier Community for Women, Children and Families MCFHC Continues Mapping a Course to a Healthier Community for Women, Children and Families! The Maternal, Child and Family Health (MCFH) Coalition launched an important new program to unite and call the community to action for healthier mothers, babies and families. Mapping a Course to a Healthier Community for Women, Children and Families, will bring together public and provider voices to identify, prioritize and create solutions to make our community better for women, children and families. When complete, the St. Louis Maternal, Child and Family Health (MCFH) Agenda will serve as a community roadmap for cohesive, collaborative action and advocacy that can help shape the availability of new resources and draw new attention to the needs of families. We invite you to join the Mapping a Course Task Force and be a part of leading the way toward a healthier community for women, children and families. Your perspective and input is needed to make this effort meaningful and successful. Participation on the Task Force is open to anyone who is concerned about the health of children and families in our community. The first meetings of the Mapping a Course Task Force were held on September 21 at the History Museum and September 26 at Lutheran Family and Children’s Services. One hundred and eleven providers and community members participated in our initial forums. The forums generated over 800 responses to our questions and we aren’t finished yet! The volume and quality of responses will provide critical information on the needs of women, children and their families in our region. Thank you! We made a number of community presentations about the “Mapping a Course for a Healthier Community for Women, Children and Families,” inviting community organizations to participate. As a result, the St. Louis Freedom Schools have invited their parents to participate in the process. One session will be held in February and one is tentatively scheduled in March. While we are excited for the level of community participation, it is taking a little long than we anticipated to arrange the community groups. Please continue to be patient with the process. We are deeply committed to engaging a significant number of community members in this effort. Once the community sessions have been completed, we will compile and synthesize the responses. After we have a workable number of themes and topics, we will research available and associated data and evidence-based practices that relate to the themes. When we have a reasonable amount of information to share, we will reconvene each of our groups to prioritize the themes. Once the themes have been prioritize, the groups will be reconvened a third time to share the overall results and begin to determine how to act on the top items. The “Course” is long but of crucial importance to the
well-being of our women, children and families. FIMR Annual Report The St. Louis Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Program of the Maternal, Child and Family Health Coalition (MCFHC) is pleased to present the FIMR Annual Report to the St. Louis Community. FIMR provides a voice for local families who have suffered the loss of an infant by working to improve the quality and scope of services for women and infants. FIMR provides a community-based, action-oriented, systematic way for diverse community members to come together and examine social, economic, health, educational, environmental and safety factors associated with fetal and infant loss in St. Louis. We thank you for taking a few minutes to review our first FIMR Annual Report, and we invite you to join us in working together toward a healthier community for mothers, children and families. For more information about the St. Louis FIMR Program, please contact Rochelle Dean, FIMR Manager at (314) 289-5683. CATCH Reports "Identifying Patterns of Utilization of Primary Care" and "Promoting Primary Care Utilization through Education and Screening" are two reports on the activities of the Maternal, Child and Family Health Coalition’s Access work group. The activities were funded by the Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) grants of the American Academy of Pediatrics. They were conducted in partnership with Dr. Anna Fitz-James and the Riverview Gardens School District. The documents report on the examination of and efforts to increase utilization of primary preventive care for children enrolled in the Missouri State Children’s Health Insurance program. Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) services were used as a marker to determine the level of and perceived importance of primary preventive care. To see the reports, click on the titles above. Flu Vaccine Clinics St. Louis Immunization Coalition announces two resources for finding
Flu Vaccine Clinics. The local Flu Hotline phone number, made possible
by a contribution from Sanofi Pasteur, is 314-644-4FLU. The Missouri
Adult Immunization Coalition has established a website which includes
Flu clinic locations throughout the state. |
St. Louis Maternal, Child & Family Health Coalition
539 N. Grand Blvd., Suite 403, St. Louis, MO 63103
phone: 314-289-5680 fax: 314-289-5681
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