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New Jersey Baby Basics Program |
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With a focus on pregnant immigrant women receiving prenatal services at participating prenatal clinics or participating home visitation programs in Hudson County, Newark, Elizabeth and Perth Amboy, Gateway NW Maternal & Child Health Network will implement the Baby Basics Prenatal Health Literacy Program model. In collaboration with the Hudson Perinatal Cooperative, Central MCHC and the What to Expect Foundation, this program will integrate health literacy into prenatal home visiting programs and within community clinics to enhance communication between the patient, clinic and service providers, improve patient satisfaction, increase adherence to prenatal visits, and influence the attendance rate for postpartum visits to ultimately improve the health literacy skills of new families. Literacy experts will be engaged to train and mentor the Baby Basics Program staff, health educators from participating clinics, and incorporate ESL education into health literacy and prenatal education efforts, to further improve health literacy. |
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Ironbound Newark Latino Health Literacy Initiative |
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This project will focus on Latino immigrants in the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ with low levels of health literacy and limited English fluency. The program will provide both long-term and short-range services to increase participants' health literacy knowledge leading to improved health outcomes. Ironbound Community Corporation will partner with the School of Nursing at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and focus on four areas of literacy: oral, print, cultural and conceptual knowledge and numeracy, working primarily in Spanish to build on the strengths of participants and make health services accessible as quickly as possible. Community health fairs, one-on-one literacy coaching sessions and one-time literacy workshops will precede more intensive 12-week health literacy seminars. |
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Safe Dates of Hudson and Union Counties |
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To educate adolescents on establishing healthy relationships and address the issue of teen dating violence, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark will implement the Safe Dates curriculum over a three-year period, serving 1,500 ninth grade students (500 annually) in Hudson and Union Counties. Staff will work with Marist High School (Bayonne), Benedictine Academy (Elizabeth), St. Patrick's High School (Elizabeth), St. Joseph of the Palisades High School (West New York), and Roselle Catholic High School (Roselle). The complete school communities will be served, as the students, personnel and parents will all be educated on Safe Dates. |
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Dating 101: Keep it Safe |
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To educate adolescents on establishing healthy relationships and address the issue of teen dating violence, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's University Hospital School-Based Youth Services Program will implement Dating 101: Keep It Safe within the Essex County Vocational School District. Dating 101: Keep It Safe will integrate the 'Safe Dates' curriculum into all ninth grade health education classes at four schools in Essex County: Newark Tech, North Thirteenth Street Center (both located in Newark), Bloomfield Tech, and West Caldwell Center. The program will be part of a district-wide character education initiative in which peer leaders model appropriate attitudes and behaviors for underclassmen. |
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Updated: 8/9/2010
New
Jersey Health Initiatives
323 Cooper Street, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden,
NJ 08102-1519
Telephone: 856-225-6733 • Fax: 856-225-6736 Info@njhi.org
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