VISION: All Akron moms will deliver at full term and every Akron baby will celebrate a first birthday.
MISSION: Full Term First Birthday Akron will educate and inform our citizens of programs available in the community that promote healthy full term pregnancies and ensure every child celebrates a first birthday.
PRIORITY AREAS
- ADDRESS STRUCTURAL RACISM AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH:
Address Structural Racism and the blind spots that interplay between race, equity and infant mortality by advancing a consistent, evidence-based cultural competence and implicit bias curriculum across service sectors.
- Health and Social Services, Education and Workforce Development
- Financial Empowerment Initiatives
- Housing Initiatives
- REDUCE PREMATURITY:
- According to Ohio Medicaid data, Summit County had the highest preterm birth rate in 2016 and ranked the 4th highest in infant deaths in 2015.
- Preterm birth and infant death rates for African American babies were nearly double that of white babies in all Akron zip codes.
- The goal is to decrease the number of African American premature births and infant deaths to 50% by 2025.
- Healthy Pregnancy
- Fatherhood Involvement
- Progesterone
- Birth Spacing
- ELIMINATE SLEEP-RELATED DEATHS:
- Akron had 4 sleep related deaths in 2016. Our goal is to have ZERO sleep related deaths. Our action will be to educate families and provide cribs to those who cannot afford them.
- Continue to educate expectant parents about the ABC’s of Safe Sleep
