Healthy births depend on the alignment of many important factors, including access to high-quality clinical care, equitable policies, a prepared and supported workforce, community-centered practices, and collaboration across sectors. Through…
Child care is a critical support for our communities to enable a parent to work and provide for their family, and for a child to receive foundational life skills. Both…
We’ve known for some time that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can impact health and well-being across the lifespan. However, emerging research suggests something just as powerful, if not more so:…
Written by Brieanne Lyda-McDonald Infant mortality has been slowly improving over the past 20 years in North Carolina, yet babies born here are still more likely to die than…