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Baby Basics
In collaboration
with the What to Expect Foundation, this is a project designed to improve
participating hospitals' capacities to educate pregnant women about prenatal
health topics.
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Breastfeeding
Program
Gateway's
program is one of the largest programs of its type in New Jersey with
five International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) and four
Lactation Counselors.
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Covering
Kids and Families
This program
aims to maximize the enrollment and retention of children in health care
coverage programs.
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Electronic
Birth Certificate
Operating in all New
Jersey hospitals since 1997, the EBC has replaced traditional paper birth
certificates.
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Essex
Metro Immunization Coalition
The goal of
this program is to raise Newark's chronically low infant immunization
rates through education and outreach in Greater Newark.
Link to: Immunization
Schedule
Links to New Jersey Department of Health Statistics :
2006 Influenza and RSV Costs by Hospital
2004-2005 Summary: Types of admissions for Respiratory Diseases, RSV and Flu by County, Facility, Municipality
2004 -2005 Summary: All Respiratory Diseases
Power Point Presentation of Pediatric RSV Hospitalizations, 2004, 2005, 2006
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FIMR-Fetal Infant Mortality Review
This is a public health
program that analyzes information about fetuses that die before birth
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Healthy
Families Home Visitation Parent Education Program
Families
enrolled in the home visitation program are visited regularly by a paraprofessional
Family Support Worker (FSW), who works with them to promote understanding
normal child health and development, to teach positive and effective parenting
skills, and to discuss other aspects of healthy family functioning. Families
are identified through a screening and assessment process, mostly through
Morristown Memorial Hospital's prenatal clinic and the prenatal clinic
at Passaic Beth Israel Regional Medical Center
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Lead Initiatives:
Leadie
Eddie - This cartoon figure features prominently in all of Gateway Northwest's
projects including the United Way's Success by Six initiative, the UMDNJ
WIC clinic and the Leaguers' Head Start program. CLEARCorps affiliates
in Minneapolis and Seattle have adopted him for their outreach. Leadie
Eddie has evolved from a coloring book character to a beanie baby style
doll to a muppet-like puppet adored by children. His rhyming name and
unique appearance, purple with red hair, are memorable making him a
great educational tool and icon for lead poisoning prevention.
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LEAP: Lead Education Advocacy and Prevention
Serving
10 counties, the Lead Education, Awareness and Prevention (LEAP) coalition
is one of four funded by the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services.
Its mission is to coordinate the lead awareness and prevention efforts
of disparate agencies, inform and build its network and sponsor educational
activities. There are more than 20 member agencies representing health
departments, nonprofits, HMOs and MCH consortia.
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Newark
Partnership for Lead Safe Children
The
Partnership is comprised of representatives from Head Start operators,
health and educational institutions, community advocates and organizations,
HUD, the Newark Health Department and the State Department of Health
and Senior Services. The Partnership coordinates and supports lead awareness
efforts such as the public health campaigns Calcium: Select to Protect
and "Toxic Treats" dealing with lead in candies.
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CLEARCorps
As
part of the Americorps community service model, this national network
of affiliates utilizes a family-centered approach to the prevention
of and response to childhood lead poisoning. CLEARCorps-NJ provides
education and outreach throughout the state for groups large and small,
young and old. In the greater Newark area, Corps members conduct in-home
evaluations of lead risks and remediation services. Service partners
include Leaguers-Head Start, the UMDNJ WIC clinic and Programs for Parents.
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Annual
Conference - Lead Exposure
In conjunction with the University of Medicine
and Dentistry of NJ, Gateway Northwest sponsors an annual conference
for local health officials, pediatric and school nurses, social workers,
teachers and advocacy groups dealing with lead poisoning prevention.
The Lead Exposure series has addressed: "Keeping NJ's Kids Safe," 2002;
"Research and Reality," 2003; "Healthy Homes - Healthy Babies, Primary
Prevention is the Key," 2004 and "Paint and Beyond," 2005.
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HUD LICAR
This Department of Community Affairs program, Lead Intervention for
Children at Risk, funds Gateway Northwest to conduct public outreach
and educational efforts in lead poisoning prevention, to provide training
in lead-safe work practices, and to support blood lead screening.
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Wipe Out Lead New Jersey
This public health campaign seeks to help pregnant women identify home-based
lead hazards before their babies arrive. Lead dust is the most common
source of childhood lead poisoning. "Wipe Out Lead NJ" will make thirty
thousand free tests available through prenatal clinics, OB/GYN physician
offices, women's clinics in hospitals and community health centers in
18 cities and towns with high childhood lead poisoning levels. Gateway
Northwest will support distribution and follow-up efforts.
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New
Jersey Immunization Information System
A web-based,
confidential, population-based, computerized information system designed
to collect and consolidate vaccination data about children within a geographic
area.
http://www.njiis.nj.gov/njiis/
If you are a healthcare provider who gives immunizations and would like to receive free NJIIS training, please click here:
http://www.njiis.nj.gov/njiis/jsp/trainingschedule.jsp
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Newborn
Hearing Screening
State law
now requires 100% screening for newborn hearing. Gateway's program supports
and aids the attainment of that goal.
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Perinatal
Addiction Prevention Project (PAPP)
This important
program focuses on educating professionals and the public about perinatal
substance use and its myriad associated issues.
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