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1 Best Babies Zone New Orleans Health Start New Orleans & LSU Health Sciences Center» March 2014

2 National Partners Funded by WK Kellogg Foundation Led by UC Berkley National Partners NHSA AMCHP City MatCH

3 Strategies 1. A small zone is selected where change is greatly needed and resources are aligned to produce and measure impact 2. A broad collaborative is formed to work across four sectors (health, economics, education and community) to achieve collective impact 3. A social movement is cultivated within the city to do whatever it takes to improve birth outcomes in the zone

4 Best Babies Zone Price Hill Neighborhood, Cincinnati, Ohio in partnership with Cincinnati Children s Medical Center, Santa Maria Communtiy Services, and Every Child Succeeds Castlemont Neighborhood, Oakland, California in partnership with Alameda County Department of Health and UC Berkley Hollygrove Neighborhood, New Orleans Louisiana

5 BBZ NOLA Leadership

6 Hollygrove-Dixon Community Snapshot 18.3% LBW 20.2% LBW

7 Hollygrove BBZ Community Snapshot Orleans Parish, LA Best Baby Zone Total population 369,250 4,597 People living in Poverty 28.7% 30.1% Median household income $34,361 $25,732 Unemployed 12.3% 20.9% No diploma 15.3% 21.6% Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months Low Birth Weight (<2500g) 4, % 20.2% African American 59.8% 93.4% Source: Orleans Parish: Data from U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 American Community Survey; Best Babies Zone: Data from U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, Census Tracts 72, 75.02; except birth outcomes data (Orleans Parish: County Health Rankings 2013; Best Babies Zone: Office of Public Health 2012).

8 Meeting Our Neighbors Trinity Christian Community Louisiana Public Health Institute Hollygrove Community Development Corporation Hollygrove Seniors Hollygrove Market and Farm Olive Street Superette AARP

9 Key Cross Sector Partners Health Title V & X NOHD A Woman s Place Daughters of Charity Education Agenda for Children Lafayette Charter Academy Family Child Care Economics NORA Iberia Bank Job One Social & Community PISAB Total Community Action Greater New Orleans Foundation Code Enforcement

10 Outreach Weekly door-to-door outreach on health, education, economic, social and community services Special events including baby showers, health screenings, mental health outreach

11 Health Educate community about the prevalence of LBW in Hollygrove Educate community about causes and effects of LBW Use reproductive life maps to educate women on planning, spacing, and other preconception heath ideas Conducte Well Woman Day

12 Health Maternal and child health impact assessment of air, soil, and blight in Hollygrove, New Orleans, LA

13 Education Complex network of schools Partnered with family child care providers to survey parents about community resources and needs Partnered with area school to conduct focus group on parent s needs Conducted outreach on affordable child care

14 Economics Partnered with Job One to share information on summer jobs programs

15 Social Change Hosted Action Learning Collaborative on Undoing Racism Healthy Start, Title V, Title X, Tulane University, Fatherhood Consortium, and Trinity Christian Community Staff from all organizations attended Undoing Racism training Participating in community conversations on proposed railroad move

16 Community Collective Impact Training

17 Looking Ahead Health Well Woman Days Air and soil analysis Health impact assessment on train Code enforcement and grant assistance for corner store Education Dunbar Elementary, 2015 Partnership with Head Start YMCA Literacy Training

18 Looking Ahead Economics ProServ Culinary Training Healthy, Affordable Housing Summit Social & Community Change Blight reduction Lighting Moms groups Undoing Racism Community Training Stand up for Children Parent Advocacy

19 Vision

20 Vision

21 Thank you!

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