Be Our Voice
A project to develop a series of national resources and a training curriculum to support the engagement and training of healthcare professionals to become advocates for obesity prevention within their communities.
Who
Teams in seven healthcare organizations from Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina and Texas trained directly with our staff. The teams went on to train more than 350 healthcare professionals in their communities.
Our Role
In Phase 1, led the development of training materials and 18 train-the-trainer sessions. In Phase 2, led the sharing of the online Be Our Voice advocacy training to healthcare professionals nationwide (see the course below).
Funder
This project was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and run in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the California Medical Association Foundation and the RWJF Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
Other Information
May 2009 to August 2011 (Phase 1); September 2011 to August 2012 (Phase 2)
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
