Worcester Healthy Baby Collaborative Quarterly Meeting

Monday March 1, 2021

8am - 10am

While we are waiting to start, please pick another person to “chat” with privately in the chat—we will ask you to introduce them to the group

so find out their name, what group they represent if they do (it’s ok to be here on your own), and one thing they did this past weekend to de-stress in these challenging times

Agenda

• Networking
• Welcome/Call to Order/Introductions
• Acknowledgments and Celebrations
• Save the Date: Anti-Racism Training
• Mission Statement Revision
• Strategic Meeting Follow Up
• Subcommittee Reports: new subcommittees
• CHA/CHIP 2020
• Follow Up
• Action Items: Membership Form

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Acknowledgments and Celebrations

• Match Day 2021 is March 17
• Vanessa Villamarin UMMS Class of 2021 is applying for obgyn residency

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• Mick Huppert Award 2021

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Special thanks to all of you from the Worcester Healthy Baby Collaborative!

Departures: Tina Grosowsky (retirement)

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Additions: Penelope Karambinakis (DPH) has joined our steering committee

Save The Date: Training on May 7, 2021 8:30am-12n

• UNUM and REACH/Clark Grant
• Free CEU/CME to WHBC members (required for members)
• Up to 100 people
• Registration link to follow soon

Revisiting our mission statement from 2017

• MISSION: The Worcester Healthy Baby Collaborative is a diverse coalition of Maternal and Child Health Leaders who seek to improve health outcomes for babies and their families by engaging and working collaboratively with the community, taking an anti-racist approach in our actions to reduce health inequities, so that Worcester’s infant mortality rate is decreased and every baby and family can thrive and prosper.

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• Alternative Ideas?
• “reduce health inequities and promote racial justice in health care”
• “reduce health inequities caused by racism”
• “reduce health inequities using the tools of anti-racism”
• Other?

Strategic Planning Meeting 12/4/20 Follow Up

• Prioritized list of action items
• Should we become part of another organization?
• Exploring options with United Way; others?
• Outreach: 1 pager to communicate our message
• Partnerships with other agencies/groups: how to re-develop, strengthen

Subcommittees: Proposed Changes

• To be a member of WHBC, you need to complete a membership form and pick a subcommittee to work on

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• Financial/Treasurer (Stephen Sycks, Heidi Leftwich)
• Safe Baby Project (formerly Baby Box)—multiple members
• Publications (formerly Communication)
• Breastfeeding (REACH)—funding for some administrative work
• Governance (formerly Restructuring)
• Data (Heather Alker)

Subcommittee Reports: Financial

Treasurer: Stephen Sycks and Heidi Leftwich

United Way: fiscal agent: donate here: https://www.classy.org/give/180663/#!/donation/checkout

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Subcommittee Reports: Safe Baby Project�

• Ongoing distribution: EMK, Marie’s Mission, FHCW
• We have distributed about 150 Baby Boxes thus far
• Name change: Pivoting to switch to Cribettes ( “playards” )
• Revising videos and updating terminology
• Will follow same process (survey before videos, survey after videos, receipt of materials, follow up when infant 4-6 weeks old) and continue to track in RedCap
• We have about 50 Cribettes through Umass and funding for an additional 25 through Clark
• Mick Huppert grant

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Subcommittee Reports: Communication🡪Publications

• Website: https://www.worcesterhealthybaby.org/
• City Council Report: update re: REACH, where to send

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1euMgTUw-6CTp9gIGwN-r04BzrQtuZaoO/edit?ts=5e4afdad

• Develop One pager for outreach: what is our message
• Baby Box Manuscript (under review at one journal)
• Geo-coding work presented at APHA Fall 2020

Subcommittee Reports: Breastfeeding Workgroup

• Monthly meetings from November through March
• Many thanks: Mary Randolph (SVH), Marcia Tessier (Umass), Sherman Chu (Umass NICU), Oanh Nguyen and Thuha Le (FHCW), Anne Covino (SVH), Temana Aguilar (DPH), Penelope Karambinakis (DPH)
• 4 certified lactation counselors (CLCs) funded, to complete exam 3/31/21
• Further funding this year
• 6 more CLC candidates
• Breastfeeding workshop (4hrs)
• Summit funding
• Data analysis
• Ongoing work (developing job description for help with this)

Subcommittee Reports: Data�

• https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htm
• Hispanic IMR nationally almost as low as white IMR

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• https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db371.htm
• Teen mothers have higher IM; Hispanic teens lower than others
• https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/health-of-women-and-children/measure/IMR_MCH/state/ALL

MA has lowest in country at 3.8

CHA/CHIP 2021

Advocacy: Legislation to Know About

• Other Bills in state legislature

Action Items

Hold the date for MOD Racism Training May 7, 2021 and for future meetings

Quarterly Meetings (zoom): June 7, Sept 20, Dec 6 8am-10am

Infant Mortality Summit: Tuesday Oct 5 ½ day

Complete a 2021 membership form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PMSHialFeFFRkycRV2rGH4EojyW74hfWX7y4YNZdaaU/edit

Sign up for a subcommittee: Publications, Governance in particular

What are you going to do today to be anti-racist in your maternal/child health work?