Center for Black Women’s WellnessCommunity Action Network
Our Community Action Network (CAN) is a group of multi-sector partners and participants who commit themselves to improving perinatal birth outcomes through service linkages, information sharing, and systems change.
Multi-sector partners and participants working to improve perinatal birth outcomes · The CAN meets monthly
From cbww.org/programs/maternal-child-health ↗About this program
Partnerships are vital to help create the change we want to see. Our Community Action Network (CAN) is a group of multi-sector partners and participants who commit themselves to improving perinatal birth outcomes through service linkages, information sharing, and systems change.
The CAN meets monthly. CAN members include state and local government agencies such as Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV), Title V, and Women's Health; as well as universities, medical schools, providers, maternal and child health agencies, fatherhood agencies, school districts, care management organizations, child welfare agencies, coalitions, healthy start programs, community health centers, hospitals, family service agencies, behavioral health agencies and small businesses.
Questions
How do I get involved in the CAN?
To get involved in the CAN, contact Mary Pruitt at MPruitt@cbww.org .
Details
- Who
- Multi-sector partners and participants working to improve perinatal birth outcomes
- When
- The CAN meets monthly
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