Full Term First Birthday Greater Akron
2019-2021 Strategic Plan
OUR MISSION
Full Term First Birthday Greater Akron is a collective impact collaborative advocating for policies, educating our community and informing our Greater Akron citizens of programs that promote healthy full-term pregnancies and ensure every child celebrates a first birthday.
OUR VISION
All Greater Akron moms will be empowered to deliver at full term so every baby has a fighting chance to celebrate a first birthday.
OUR STRATEGIC GOALS
The strategic goals developed by FTFB are below.
- Provide evidence-based, family-centric services that reduce the rate of premature births to the national average by 2025 and eliminate sleep-related deaths, particularly among African American mothers and their babies.
- Engage, educate and equip residents and stakeholders to support and promote healthy full-term pregnancies and safe sleep for babies.
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to influence and impact policies and practices that will improve birth outcomes.
- Address structural racism that interplays between race, equity and infant mortality by advancing consistent evidence and research-based cultural responsiveness and implicit bias curricula across all service sectors in the Greater Akron community.
- Assess and build the collective impact capacity of Full Term First Birthday Greater Akron.
2019-2022 Strategic Plan is available here.
For more information or to get involved with Full Term First Birthday Greater Akron, please contact [email protected].
