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Partner Spotlight:
Black Women for Wellness
Black Women for Wellness
, a Show Your Love partner, a non-profit committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls
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elebrates 20 years this summer!
They support women through health education, empowerment, and advocacy.
Their program, Get Smart B4 U Get Sexy, organized lots of summer community events (weekly dance classes, #SafeSexandChill Tweet Chat, #BlackisBeautiful Challenge, a 20th anniversary gala, and more).
Take a look at their community health and engagement work HERE.
Follow @GSB4UGS on Twitter and Instagram for more community engagement challenges and messages.
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Show Your Love
Ambassador Spotlight:
Ana Cabello-De La Garza
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 Ana Cabello-De La Garza, MSW, MPH, is finishing up her internship at Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai`i. Ana has been an active partner in promoting health messages and encouraging self care. Her energy is contagious - she convinced the entire HMHB team to join the summer challenge. She got involved with our work because (to quote her)
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I am fascinated by resilience and the protective factors produced by the intersection of culture and health in the continuum from preconception to postpartum. In my research and practice, I believe in the power of collective impact, social math, the intersectionality of stories, sustainable prevention, strengths-based approaches, and participatory empowermen
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Does she look familiar? You've seen her as the face of our #MyHealthySummer Challenge. Her photos are BEAUTIFUL!
Stay up to date with Ana Cabello de la Garza & @HMHBHawaii using #ShowYourLoveToday.
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Resource Spotlight:
Zika Virus Screening Tool
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Don't forget to wear YOUR bug spray!
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Coming Soon!
August in National Breastfeeding Month! Join the MomsRising #WellnessWed tweet chat on August 2nd at 2pm ET to hear from experts about breastfeeding.
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Submit an event, tool, research, program, campaign update for a spotlight or feature
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We want to showcase all that you are doing in your community or with your team to advance preconception health. Email
Suzannew@med.unc.edu
with something you'd like us to amplify in our newsletter, website & social media properties.
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About the Newsletter
Thanks for reading the National Preconception Health & Health Care Initiative newsletter.
For questions or submissions to our PCHHC Newsletter, email
pchhcnews@gmail.com
. PCHHC Initiative newsletters are archived
here
(BeforeandBeyond.org). Please help us grow our readership and share this widely!
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#MyHealthySummer
Spotlight:
Jasmine Getrouw-Moore, MPA
Click the screenshot to see how @JasmineGMusings defines #MyHealthySummer: a journey that includes physical, mental and spiritual health. Lots of great meal ideas and recipes shared, too!
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Promoting Health and Wellness this Summer |
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At it's heart, preconception health aims to improve the health and well-being of young adults. Changing behaviors, being active, and building strong relationships takes time, resources, and encouragement. The
#MyHealthySummer Challenge is focused on making healthy choices attractive and encouraging young adults to share their ideas and strategies for reaching their goals and dreams - while having fun at the same time!
Check out some photos from our summer photo challenge below.
It isn't too late to promote or join - summer is still in full swing! Please reach out to the young adults in your life, on your staff, and who you serve and encourage them to join the love and the fun!
Join the Challenge today!
NOTE: If your accounts are private, post and send a screenshot to SuzanneW@med.unc.edu so you can be counted (otherwise we won't see that you participated!).
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Summer Reads
Sound on, volume up!
Learn about the President's 2018 budget request. Listen in on Dr. Coleen Boyle, Director of the CDC's NCBDDD, archived webinar here.
PCHHC regularly joins national conversations in the news. Read the latest PCHHC press on BeforeandBeyond.org > About > Press.
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Keep up with the Science!
Sign up for the
CDC's bi-weekly updates on preconception and interconception health by
emailing Cheryl Robbins
(ggf9@cdc.gov). A great resource for everything happening in the industry, across the country - and world!
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Here's a look at of some great research being shared in the
CDC's bi-weekly updates on preconception and interconception health:
Without strategies to reduce risks in older women and those with chronic medical conditions, it's inevitable that maternal mortality rates will remain stagnant or rise. Basic improvements in care and counseling can have a significant impact.
Preconception care is so much more than a single pre-pregnancy visit; it should be incorporated into the care we deliver to all women of reproductive age, irrespective of their reproductive plans...every woman, every time.
Comprehensive reproductive health counseling (CRHC) is an important component of care for women living with HIV, but few women report discussing reproductive health with an HIV care provider. This study found that delivery of CRHC is not consistent with current guidelines that recommend discussing reproductive health with all reproductive-aged women who are living with HIV, even among providers offering primary care to their HIV patients.
Preparing women to become pregnant and gathering preconception health information, either by women themselves or by means of a PCC consult, is associated with women positively changing lifestyles during the preconception period.
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Despite receiving less coverage in the news, Zika Virus is STILL a threat! For that reason, we are re-sharing 
