Category Archives: Saving Babies
Faces of FIMR: Carol Brady
Outgoing Coalition Executive Director Carol Brady has been featured in the “Faces of FIMR” spotlight in the National Fetal & Infant Mortality Review Spring 2013 newsletter. The article highlights how using the FIMR process in Northeast Florida has shaped how the Coalition addresses poor birth outcomes and infant mortality. FIMR examines cases with the worst outcomes to identify gaps… Read More
Staff, 4Me participants walk in First Coast March for Babies
Thank you to everyone who came out Saturday, April 27 to walk with the Healthy Start Coalition for the 2013 First Coast March for Babies! More than 30 Coalition staff, Preconception Peer Educators and 4Me Teen Health Project facilitators, teen participants and parents walked the 1.5 mile route at Everbank Bank in honor of Northeast Florida babies.
FAIMH 12th Annual Conference and the 2013 Early Childhood Conference to take place in June
The Florida Association for Infant Mental Health’s 12th Annual Conference June 12 in Tampa will highlight the topic, Trauma & Toxic Stress. Following the FAIMH conference is the 2013 Early Childhood Conference June 13-14, also in Tampa. The FAIMH conference will feature two keynote speakers: Neil W. Boris, M.D., a professor of Psychiatry at the… Read More
National infant mortality rate declines 12 percent
New data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reveals a 12 percent decline in the national infant mortality rate from 2005 to 2011. The data found the infant mortality rate decreased the most among non-Hispanic black women (16 percent). Infant mortality rates among Hispanic women showed the least decline (9 percent). There were… Read More