Breastfeeding is considered the gold standard in postnatal care for both birthing persons and infants. Yet, despite national gains in breastfeeding initiation rates, racial disparities in breastfeeding initiation and duration rates continue to persist. Effective intervention strategies require a multi-level approach that includes comprehensive legal, policy, and programmatic efforts.Read More »
Preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is a critical place to start as states look to invest in upstream evidence-based prevention strategies to address the current opioid crisis. State health leaders play a critical role in promoting and facilitating ACEs data surveillance and monitoring. Surveilling and monitoring data is key to informing programmatic and policy work, documenting progress and impact, setting relevant ACEs-related state priorities, and influencing policy to address ACEs prevention. This report highlights ACEs-related data sources, provides examples of how states can use these data to inform their primary prevention work, offers resources for crafting data sharing agreements, and identifies challenges in collecting ACEs-related data.Read More »
This report highlights six public health approaches for addressing the rising incidence of SUD and NAS and draws out the critical role that state health leaders play in each.Read More »
This report describes how state perinatal quality collaboratives have focused on improving maternal and child health outcomes by supporting efforts to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration.Read More »