This report is designed to be shared with strategic partners to refresh them on the FIMR program and inform about systems level recommendations made by the case review team.
This report is designed to be distributed to community members to raise awareness about the services FIMR offers and case review team recommendations at the individual level.
This guide is a result of a Healthy Pregnancies workgroup, a sub-committee of a larger FIMR Community Action Team (CAT) in Knox Co, TN. The group met over the course of a year to identify and strategize ways to address the importance of preconception care and early prenatal care.
The Indiana Department of Health is partnering with The Milk Bank and Ardo Medical, Inc. to provide Indiana hospitals, providers, and healthcare staff with education about lactation after loss, the importance of having this conversation with families prior to discharge, and bereavement kits. This initiative magnifies why maternal and/or family interviews are such a valuable piece to the FIMR program. Some of our best recommendations come directly from families themselves.
This report is an example of engaged, multidisciplinary identification of risk factors focused on health equity.
This program recruits women from the community and provides training and mentoring to help them become MCH Leaders to their neighborhoods to help improve birth outcomes.
The goal of this learning series is to provide local and state review team members with resources on social determinants of health, racial equity, internal bias, and power in order to promote health equity and a better understanding of systemic issues that lead to child deaths.
Consistent FIMR case reviews found that AI/AN women experience higher rates of commercial tobacco use before, during, and after pregnancy. They recommend that families have improved access to evidence-based and culturally appropriate commercial tobacco cessation services.
The Intertribal Council of Michigan (ITC) developed an online course for new parents called “The Power of Your Newborn” which is culturally grounded and covers safe sleep, breastfeeding, traditional practices, newborn reflexes, and breast/maternal health and healing.
Four lean process improvement workshops took place to improve how recommendations are written, sorted, and elevated to state leadership for analysis and action. Through the workshops, local teams recommended a new FIMR recommendation form and log be developed to assist in writing and tracking actionable, equitable, and specific recommendations.