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The Healthy Start Initiative: A Community-Driven Approach to Infant Mortality Reduction: Volume IV: Community Outreach
By Angela Hayes, Thurma McCann, Beverly Wright, Bernice W. Young
January 01, 1996

Summary: The Healthy Start Initiative is a national 5-year demonstration program that uses a broad range of community-driven, system development approaches to reduce infant mortality and improve the health and well-being of women, infants, children, and families. This volume, fourth in the series, deals with the topic of community outreach and is based on the National Forum for Community Perinatal Outreach Workers. This book serves as a "how-to" manual, but rather than explain how to do outreach work, it suggests how to improve the outreach process. This report has four chapters. The first chapter, "Reaching Out: How To Improve Service," suggests how to improve services to clients, how to improve awareness of cultural differences and fathers' potential involvement, and how to care for outreach workers' own needs. The second chapter, "Reaching Up: How To Mentor Outreach Workers through Training and Supervision," suggests that outreach programs need to clearly define their roles, use effective recruiting processes, and supervise, mentor, and train outreach workers. The third chapter, "Reaching Across: How To Build Partnerships with Other Organizations," presents the lessons that outreach workers and their programs have learned as they reach across communities and resources. The fourth chapter, "Reaching In: How To Learn from Research and Evaluation," points out that outreach workers need to be familiar with existing research and to have systems to collect data and evaluate their own programs. Two appendices containing a speakers list and resources for fundraising and sustainability are included.

Index Terms: Community Health Programs, Demonstration Projects, Early Childhood Intervention, Infant Mortality, Outreach, Administrative Management, Community Needs Assessment, Community Resources, Computers, Cultural Diversity, Data Collection, Dental Health, Family Support, Fund Raising, Health Care Access, Health Education, Home Visits, Male Involvement, Managed Care, Model Programs, Partnerships, Professional Isolation, Program Evaluation, Recruitment, Roles, Safety Education, Special Health Problems, Stress, Substance Abuse, Training, Training Requirements, CHR National Training Center, COSSMHO (National Coalition Of Hispanic Health And Human Service Organizations), Family Support Programs Of Greater Washington, Gateway MCH Consortium (New Jersey), Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, Iberia Comprehensive Community Health, Indian Health Service, La Leche League International, March Of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, National Community Health Advisor Study, National Consortium Of African-American Children, Oakland Healthy Start, Pee Dee Healthy Start (South Carolina), Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Healthy Start, Seattle Outreach Alliance, U.S. Administration For Children And Families

Publisher: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

Publication Type: Conference papers, Reports (Descriptive)

Pages: 148 pages
Language: English

ERIC Number: ED411994

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