Every Woman Southeast will be hosting our first webinar on November 4th, 2010 from 12-1:30pm EST. We have a great line up of speakers who will present a wide variety of options for groups to consider in organizing themselves to promote women's wellness / preconception health. This information is relevant to groups interested in organizing at a state level as well as those trying to organize at a more local level. One of the biggest opportunities that the preconception health movement offers is the chance to bridge gaps and form new partnerships to work together toward some common goals. Of course this is MUCH easier said than done. The webinar offers the opportunity to hear how three states, one national organization and our Every Woman Southeast Initiative have approached this challenge.
Interested in joining us? Please do - you can register by going to our website. The box in the bottom right corner of our site will take you to information about the speakers, their slides and the login link. At this point we don't know if we can archive the webinar. We'd like to but aren't sure just yet if it is technically and financially feasible. We also are not offering CEUs for this webinar although we will investigate doing so for future webinars.
We owe a BIG thank you to the March of Dimes for working with us to host the webinar - couldn't do it without them. As of Friday at 1pm we have over 125 participants registered...with hopefully more to follow.
Sign up and join us!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
We're Live!
Our new website www.everywomansoutheast.org went live on Sunday October 10, 2010! While being on the web is a great step, the challenge will be keeping our website current and relevant, as well as making sure people know it exists. For that we need everyone's help. If you see errors or broken links let us know. If you have resources or updates for us to post - please send them to us. You can email Sarah at sarahv@med.unc.edu or post a comment below.
Having trouble getting to the site? It might be a little confusing with our blog being a dot com and the site being a dot org. But we'll make it happen. The blog is featured on the homepage of the site. If you've landed on our blog first - click on the link above and you should be at the website. Please bookmark it as a favorite and come back.
Still having trouble? You might need to clear your browser history and cache then shift and reset. That should work. If not, post a comment and we'll figure it out.
Thanks everyone - happy reading!
Having trouble getting to the site? It might be a little confusing with our blog being a dot com and the site being a dot org. But we'll make it happen. The blog is featured on the homepage of the site. If you've landed on our blog first - click on the link above and you should be at the website. Please bookmark it as a favorite and come back.
Still having trouble? You might need to clear your browser history and cache then shift and reset. That should work. If not, post a comment and we'll figure it out.
Thanks everyone - happy reading!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Momentum
The Every Woman Southeast Initiative has been very busy since our last post. Our leadership team has met by conference call several times a month over the summer into early fall. It's amazing what you can get done by phone!
Together we've put together the content for our new website - www.everywomansoutheast.org - which we hope to launch within a week or so. The website will have alot of information about our Initiative as well as updates on the preconception health related activities underway in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi. We have current news and information about preconception health related resources from around the country.
We have also organized our first webinar to be held on Thursday November 4th from 12 to 1:30 EST. The March of Dimes is helping us host that call - stay tuned for the weblink. The webinar will provide examples of ways that several states in the Southeast have organized around preconception health.
Finally, we've developed goals, aims and activities for our first collaborative project. In light of the fact that over 12% of women in the Southeast have birth to conception intervals of 6 months or less, we thought that focusing on reducing short birth intervals and improving postpartum visit utilization would be a good place to start. Now to just find the right partner to provide us with the resources to take our next steps.
Other members of the leadership team have agreed to become bloggers which will be fun as well as offering our readers a wide variety of perspectives on working together to improve the health of women and their children.
Together we've put together the content for our new website - www.everywomansoutheast.org - which we hope to launch within a week or so. The website will have alot of information about our Initiative as well as updates on the preconception health related activities underway in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi. We have current news and information about preconception health related resources from around the country.
We have also organized our first webinar to be held on Thursday November 4th from 12 to 1:30 EST. The March of Dimes is helping us host that call - stay tuned for the weblink. The webinar will provide examples of ways that several states in the Southeast have organized around preconception health.
Finally, we've developed goals, aims and activities for our first collaborative project. In light of the fact that over 12% of women in the Southeast have birth to conception intervals of 6 months or less, we thought that focusing on reducing short birth intervals and improving postpartum visit utilization would be a good place to start. Now to just find the right partner to provide us with the resources to take our next steps.
Other members of the leadership team have agreed to become bloggers which will be fun as well as offering our readers a wide variety of perspectives on working together to improve the health of women and their children.
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