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Their stories are so powerful: Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion

Significant racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities exist among sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) and breastfeeding practices in the U.S. Combining infant safe sleep (ISS) and breastfeeding promotion on the community level presents opportunities to address these racial/ethnic disparities and associated socioeconomic, cultural, and psychosocial influences.  

The National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Improvement and Innovation Network (NAPPSS-IIN) hosted a series of listening sessions in spring 2021 to examine the phenomenon of community-level providers promoting breastfeeding and infant safe sleep in communities vulnerable to disparities.

This webinar will highlight findings from a recent NICHQ-led study, Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion: a qualitative study published in BMC Public Health where researchers addressed two questions: (1) What are the areas that community-level organizations need support to serve their population’s needs around safe sleep and breastfeeding? (2) What tools or resources could assist them in improving their work promoting safe sleep and breastfeeding?  

Implications for safe sleep and breastfeeding policies and education will be discussed. Community partners will share their experiences leading and implementing activities.

Date
Length
1.5 hours
Moderator
Meera Menon, Ph.D, Associate Director of Research and Evaluation, NICHQ
Speakers
Lynnette Byfield, Community Health Worker, Babies Born Healthy, Montgomery County, MD
Angeline Bell, BS, RN, CCE, CBS, Certified Childbirth Educator and Lactation Specialist, Program Manager, Babies Born Healthy, Montgomery County, MD
Crystal Trent Paultre, MSN, RN, CBS, Community Health Nurse, Babies Born Healthy, Montgomery County, MD
Stacy Scott, Ph.D., MPA, VP of Health Equity and Innovation, NICHQ
Rebecca Huber, MPP, Senior Analyst, NICHQ

Centering Community Voices: Solutions to Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding Using a Quality Improvement Framework

While sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and breastfeeding are public health issues across population groups, significant disparities exist across race, ethnicity, and geography. To center the lived experiences of communities, many MCH programs are shifting to community-driven work to promote safe sleep and breastfeeding, including the National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Improvement and Innovation Network (NAPPSS-IIN).

This webinar will discuss how the NAPPSS-IIN programmatic and evaluation pursuits shifted to center community voices within participatory quality improvement (QI). Community partners will share their experiences leading and implementing QI activities. Implications for MCH projects and community-based research will be discussed.

Date
Length
1 hour
Moderator
Stacy Scott, Ph.D., MPA, Executive Project Director and Equity Lead at NICHQ
Speakers
Angeline Bell, Public Health Nurse at Montgomery County Health and Human Services
Crystal Trent-Paultre, Registered Nurse at Montgomery County Health and Human Services
Olga Garcia, MCH Quality Management Coordinator at WellFlorida
Jarvis Gray, Business Strategist, Adviser, Entrepreneur Coach 

Improving Our Approach: Better Conversations About Breastfeeding

This webinar provides approaches and strategies health professionals can use to help mothers open up about the challenges they face when breastfeeding. By understanding those challenges, we can better provide the supports they need.

Viewers will walk away with insight on:

  • The supports and barriers facing breastfeeding mothers
  • Methods to identify breastfeeding concerns 
  • Conversational approaches to better identify and engage with breastfeeding concerns
  • Methods for inspiring behavioral change

The webinar concludes with a role-play scenario so attendees can see how to put these approaches into action.

Date
Length

1 hour

Moderator

Elizabeth Coté, MD, MPA, NICHQ Chief Health Officer

Speakers

Lori Feldman-Winter, MD, MPH

Suzanne Bronheim, PhD

Rebekka Henriksen

Lisa Bailey