Outreach & Community Education Programs at SNJPC
Game of Life
This school-based program is designed to improve adolescent's decision-making
skills while acquainting students with their local health and social services.
The Cooperative provides training manuals and technical assistance for
schools. Contact: Sylvia Speller
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalitions (HMHB
Coalitions)
The Cooperative supports voluntary Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition
in each of the seven South Jersey counties. The county Healthy Mothers,
Healthy Babies Coalitions meet regularly to address the issues surrounding
infant mortality in their communities. While the goal of each coalition
is to reduce infant mortality, their strategies are often different. Projects
undertaken by the different county coalitions include Momobile,
Game of Life, and numerous health fairs and conferences.
In Atlantic City and the City of Camden, HMHB Coalitions
are funded by the New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services
(NJDHSS). These funded programs include an outreach component designed
to seek out pregnant women who are not receiving necessary prenatal care.
In Atlantic City, HMHB works closely with the Cooperative's Infant
and Fetal Development (IAFD) and Healthy
Families - Atlantic County programs.
In 1997, the Camden
City Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition received a four year,
$6.8 million Healthy Start grant from the US Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
The award has allowed the Coalition to quadruple the outreach staff, expand
adolescent pregnancy prevention and substance abuse/risk reduction efforts,
and expand Coalition membership by recruiting more consumers to help direct
the program's initiatives.
| Contacts: | |
| HMHB County Coalitions... | Judy Stark |
| HMHB Atlantic City........... | Suzanne Herron |
| HMHB Camden City.......... | Zalika Shani |
Pregnancy Healthline
The Pregnancy Healthline is an information and
referral phone service that provides pregnant women and their physicians
with the most current research on the effects of various toxins and prenatal
exposures on the developing fetus. Contact: Linda
Haich
WIC Breast Feeding Initiative
This program offers a wide variety of services to consumers and health
care professionals to promote, support and protect the efforts of WIC
participants who want to breastfeed. The staff includes lactation consultants,
lactation instructors and peer counselors who travel to prenatal and pediatric
clinics, hospital maternity units, physician offices and WIC agencies.
Women with questions about breastfeeding can call 1-800-WIC-1911 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week. Contact: Chris
Mulford - (856) 582-3095.