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Every Baby to 1

A Good Idea

Description

Helping Faith-Based institutions protect the congregations infants through assisting faith ministries with providing safe sleep, social support, and safe space messaging to their congregations.

Goal / Mission

Every Baby to 1 works to ensure every infant survives and thrives during their first year of life. Every Baby to 1 engages the faith community to develop education efforts and initiatives that address infant mortality. As a part of this, Every Baby to 1 promotes the "3 S" approach of Safe Sleep, Safe Space, and Social Support to reduce the risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID).

Results / Accomplishments

Over 1200 families (including grandparents) reached through their faith communities, 40 Pack N Plays (portable cribs) provided to families in need of a safe space for their babies to sleep,

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Community Health Council of Wyandotte County
Primary Contact
Shalese Clay
803 Armstrong
Kansas City, KS 66085
913-371-9298
sclay@wycohealth.com
https://www.wycohealth.com/
Topics
Health / Children's Health
Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health
Community
Organization(s)
Community Health Council of Wyandotte County
Date of publication
8/1/2018
Target Audience
Adults, Women, Men, Older Adults, Families

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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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