ASTHO hosted its second ASTHOConnects Breastfeeding Learning Community on November 13, 2019. The audience was the 16 State Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) states participating in the leaning community as well as the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) participants within those SPAN states. The ASTHOConnects presented the Center for Creative Leadership’s (CCL) Boundary-Spanning Leadership (BSL) framework and toolkit. As part of the session, states discussed the visioning tool and assisted states with strategizing on methods to incorporate an equity lens to breastfeeding initiatives.Read More »
The Opioid Use Disorder, Maternal Outcomes, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative (OMNI) Learning Community’s first ASTHOConnect of Year Two will highlight two examples of successful models for integrating maternal care and substance use treatment. Elisabeth Johnson from UNC Horizons and Dr. Lorraine Milio from Johns Hopkins’ Center for Addiction and Pregnancy will provide overviews of their organizations, discuss the successes and challenges faced by their programs, and provide recommendations for states interested in integrating care. ASTHO will also discuss Learning Community updates including teams’ state action plans, TA opportunities, and a new resource for peer-to-peer sharing between states.Read More »
The second virtual learning session of the PRISM Learning Community discusses maternal mental health systems change, and how states can use Medicaid Institutions of Mental Diseases (IMD) waivers to improve access to care for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorder.Read More »
ASTHO and CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity will host a kickoff webinar to welcome 16 states to the ASTHO Breastfeeding Learning Community and provide an overview of the learning community experience. Following introductions, each state team will discuss technical assistance needs or expertise they can offer other learning community participants. Finally, Hawaii will describe outcomes of a recent technical assistance request on provider buy-in.Read More »
The Opioid Use Disorder, Maternal Outcomes, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative (OMNI) Learning Community’s fourth ASTHOConnects webinar provides a wrap up of OMNI’s first year and a discussion on how the learning community will expand in Year Two. This webinar also features a presentation from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Mishka Terplan, who discusses the importance of how stigma, language, and a focus on the mother/baby dyad influences policy and impacts women, children, and families with substance use disorder.Read More »
The first virtual learning session of the PRISM Learning Community discusses the logistical, legislative, and legal issues around universal testing/screening for substance use in pregnant and parenting women and their newborns.Read More »
The third webinar from the OMNI Learning Community highlights neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and how using a statewide, multidisciplinary approach to NAS can address several levels of intervention.Read More »
This ASTHOConnects on Lead Exposure and Early Brain Development highlights why lead exposure is an ongoing problem in the United States that can result in detrimental effects on early brain development.Read More »
This webinar highlights how New York and Tennessee are using the ACEs behavioral risk factor surveillance system module to inform their program work in early brain development and substance misuse.Read More »
The Opioid Use Disorder, Maternal Outcomes, and
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative (OMNI) Learning Community’s second
ASTHOConnects discusses the development of Plans of Safe Care to improve
outcomes for families and infants born with substance exposure. This webinar
features presentations from Kentucky and Rhode Island who discussed their
states' development and implementation of a Plan of Safe Care process.Read More »
This ASTHOConnects webinar featured guest speakers and discussion on social determinants of health in Medicaid and the use of big data and predictive analytics in population health.Read More »
This ASTHOConnects on Tobacco Exposure and Impacts on Early Brain Development aims to educate state health department staff in the areas of tobacco cessation and early brain development. Webinar speakers discussed the science behind prenatal and early tobacco exposure and the impact on early brain development. State speakers also shared experiences implementing successful tobacco cessation and smoking reduction programs within the MCH population.Read More »
This webinar highlights the AIM patient safety bundle – Obstetric Care for Women with Opioid Use Disorder – and state and national efforts and strategies for addressing substance use disorders, including opioid use and misuse, among women of childbearing age and during pregnancy.Read More »