Healthy Start Initiative: A Community-Driven Approach to Infant MortalityReduction. Volume 2. Early Implementation: Lessons Learned

摘要

The Healthy Start Initiative began October 1, 1991, with 15 projects which wereall given the opportunity to bring together families and community organizations to design and implement new procedures in an intensive effort to reduce the infant mortality rate in their communities by one-half within five years. By November 1993, teams in each of the 15 Health Start sites had begun to learn how to identify needs, involve the community, work with consortia, establish and manage an array of program initiatives, and evaluate their efforts. These teams--including consumers, consortia members, and staff--were eager to share their experiences with others. The 1993 Healthy Start grantee meeting, held November 4-6 in McLean, Virginia, gave representatives from each project the opportunity to present and share with each other the lessons they had learned.