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Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) – High Country Collaborative

June 29, 2018 by EveryWoman Southeast

Health equity refers to the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. When people experience health inequity, they are experiencing preventable differences in health risk or status as a result of root causes of poor health which are avoidable, unnecessary, and unjust. For example, imagine a non-Hispanic white female born to a […]

Filed Under: community, equity, featured, guest blogger, partners, Women's Wellness Tagged With: EveryWoman, EWSE, Family Planning, preconception

Motor Vehicle Safety

January 3, 2018 by EveryWoman Southeast

Motor Vehicle Safety Here we are, approaching the end of another year. Can you believe it? As many of us prepare for the holidays and the fun (or not-so-fun) weather this season brings, and with some of us traveling near and far to visit friends and loved ones, we wanted to take a moment to […]

Filed Under: community

Lessons Learned Series: Recommendations for Providers (Part 4)

November 23, 2017 by Jasmine Getrouw-Moore

Providers are delivering care within a contained framework that is pressed for time, prohibiting the average provider from really building a relationship with patients. In a perfect world one that we can absolutely develop for generations to come – providers and patients would have a relationship similar to that of the case management relationship shared […]

Filed Under: community, equity, management, reproductive health

Lessons Learned Series: Voluntary Kinship (Part 3)

November 16, 2017 by Jasmine Getrouw-Moore

In Part II of the Lessons Learned Series: Defining Support, I shared a snapshot of a collection of conversations from Young Families Connect participants and recent conversations with willing participants (signed consent) who shared how they would like to be supported as new moms by their medical providers. I wrapped up the last blog by […]

Filed Under: birth outcomes, community, equity, management, reproductive health

Lessons Learned Series: Defining Support (Part 2)

November 9, 2017 by Jasmine Getrouw-Moore

Women of childbearing age in local community based programs* are unapologetically sharing their stories with their peers and community influencers (i.e. doulas, care management team and volunteers). These women represent the Young Families Connect program and a collection of other programs housed at the YWCA Greensboro. For the last two years, I have been the […]

Filed Under: birth outcomes, community, equity, management, reproductive health

Lessons Learned Series: Strategies to Care for Young Families in the Rural South (Part 1)

November 2, 2017 by Jasmine Getrouw-Moore

Local community organizations across the Southeast are opening safe spaces for women of childbearing age to share their stories about preconception and perinatal health care. These are informal storytellers – everyday folks who share common threads, including motherhood and participation in a community infant mortality reduction program. However, these programs aren’t administered as a publicly […]

Filed Under: community, equity, management, reproductive health

The Privilege of a Snow Day

January 8, 2017 by EveryWoman Southeast

It is a mix of snow and sleet paired with freezing temperatures…in the South. Our world is shut down. It is lovely. It is Saturday and we suddenly have a weekend without obligations.   An excuse to stay in sweats, work on small projects, actually talk to family, stay up late watching movies, even bake […]

Filed Under: community, equity, self reflections, Uncategorized

Let us continue to do the good work

November 10, 2016 by EveryWoman Southeast

This seismic election has left our nation on a spectrum of emotions ranging from anger to jubilation and everywhere in-between. No matter where you might personally fall on the spectrum, let us continue to do the work that this coalition has set out to do together because you matter and the work you do matters!

Filed Under: about us, community, equity, featured, self reflections

Black Mamas Matter

July 5, 2016 by EveryWoman Southeast

Black women and their babies have suffered centuries of injustice. Black women’s voices are co-opted, but not heard. Change must happen. Tweet Facts are facts, Black women living in the South face historic, ongoing challenges to their health and wellbeing. While we can argue that all women in the South could have better health outcomes, […]

Filed Under: community, leadership, partners, reproductive health

Take Two

July 5, 2016 by EveryWoman Southeast

Accepting messy and the need to apologize sometimes for inadvertent mistakes are better than silence. Tweet No matter how frustrating life was the day before, or how long the night, out of the dark each morning rays of light emerge. Dawn is a cosmic reset button. I’ve always loved the idea of new beginnings – […]

Filed Under: about us, community

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