Resources

April is National Minority Health Month (NMHM)! Join NICHQ in raising awareness about health disparities that continue to affect BIPOC communities and encourage action through health education, early detection, and control of disease complications.

The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) COVID-19 and Pregnancy brochure, developed to provide families with useful information about the COVID-19 vaccine and how women and birthing people can protect themselves, their families, and their babies by getting vaccinated, is also available in Español, 한국어 번역, русский язык, 中文翻譯, বাংলা অনুবাদ, Kreyòl Ayisyen, Polski, Italiano, יידיש, and عربى.

Join NICHQ in honoring the important contributions of doulas to the maternal and child health field and use our helpful online toolkit for ready-to-share graphics and posts celebrating World Doula Week.

This helpful brochure developed by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) provides families with useful information about the COVID-19 vaccine and how women and birthing people can protect themselves, their families, and their babies by getting vaccinated.

Health care providers, public health professionals, community-based organizations, and other health care professionals can share this poster developed by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to address common questions mothers and birthing people may have about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant.

Pediatricians, family physicians, and other health care providers can use these documents during conversations with families to address myths and facts about safe infant sleep and breastfeeding.

Pediatricians, family physicians, and other health care providers can use these documents during conversations with families to address myths and facts about safe infant sleep and breastfeeding.

This Rare Disease Day, use your organizational and personal social media to advocate for equity for those born with rare diseases. NICHQ's developed an online social media toolkit with ready-to-use graphics, images, and sample posts sharing key statistics and facts that illustrate the impact rare diseases have on more than 25 million American families and resources for public health professionals, providers, caregivers, advocates, patients, and families.

The official theme for 2022 focuses on the importance of Black Health and Wellness and acknowledges the legacy of Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, as well as other health and wellness workers, such as birthworkers, doulas, midwives, naturopaths, and herbalists. Share these ready-to-use social media graphics and posts to continue the conversation about our nation’s history and its impact on modern-day health outcomes in the Black community.

Early Childhood Health Equity (ECHE) work seeks to strengthen early childhood systems to support healthy child development and reduce health inequities and disparities that can have a lifelong impact. This case story presents lessons learned from the Family Contact Improvement Partnership (FCIP), a cross-sector collaboration between agencies working with children in the foster care system to improve family contact procedures in Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough (Mat-Su).