Healthy Native Babies Project: Tools for Addressing Safe Infant Sleep in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Resources for successful outreach, technical assistance, and effective communications
Resources for successful outreach, technical assistance, and effective communications
As part of NYAM’s 175th anniversary celebration in 2022, we’re introducing Then & Now, a new event series that looks back in order to look forward. Then & Now will explore historical roots of critical and timely issues to both understand how we got to where we are today, and to also explore bold new […]
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and Wichita State University will share results from a collaborative project focused on non-Hispanic Black mothers’ birth experiences (services, treatment, and health priorities), including strategies to improve maternal care of Black mothers. KDHE will also discuss the Maternal Anti-Violence Innovation and Sharing (MAVIS) Project, a cross-sector initiative […]
In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, this is a presentation about my own personal birth experience and the difficulties I had with the health care system throughout my pregnancy, during my birth, and after delivering my daughter. During this presentation, I will discuss how my work with WIC helped me to advocate for myself […]
With an extension of critical school meals waivers excluded from the fiscal year 2022 omnibus package, millions of children may lose access to nutritious foods. Join this webinar to hear from school meals advocates about how the end of these waivers will disrupt program operations and jeopardize access to nutritious foods for school-age children. The […]
Access to affordable healthy food is challenging given the economy, inequities, the pandemic, and more. Join a (virtual) conversation with Secretary Vilsack about how USDA nutrition programs are evolving to meet these challenges. Hosted by the Department of Health Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, American University. Moderated by Margo G. Wootan, DSc, Adjunct Faculty […]
Let’s talk about race in the anti-hunger workplace! Specifically, how organizations are working to normalize, organize, and operationalize racial equity in the workplace. Please join the Alliance to End Hunger and Maryland Hunger Solutions for an interactive discussion of the current state, successes, failures, and possible improvements to the movement to end hunger in the […]
During this webinar, CMRignite will provide details about the Recruitment & Retention (R&R) Campaign’s launch of its third cycle. Explore the new NWA WICShare Portal and learn how it functions and how to access content. Attendees will also learn about the social media content for April and May and get an update on the social […]
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) invites you to learn more about the complex and ongoing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis. The current systemic response to violence against Native women is inadequate and the rate at which we are losing our women is devastating to our tribal communities and to the Nation […]
In some tribal communities, American Indian women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average. In responding to this national crisis, we recognize systemic barriers that exacerbate efforts to locate missing victims for families, communities, and tribal nations. Over the last decade, awareness of MMIW as a national issue has increased, but more […]