Media room

Media Contact

Janice A. Freedman, Executive Director
(919) 828-1819
Fax: (919) 828-1446

N.C. Healthy Start Foundation in the News

• Nuevos recursos en español para familias latinas
  - La Conexion
• County targeted in SIDS awareness campaign - The Dispatch online
• Hospital educates new parent about SIDS - News 14 Carolina.com
• Infant mortality drop sets N.C. Record - Asheville Citizen-Times
• Infant Mortality Rising in WNC - Improving Mother's Overall Health is Key (quote from Janice A. Freedman)
• Gaston BESST Training - Charlotte Observer web site
• Foundation Welcomes Three New Board Members - Carolina Newswire
• State offers tool to fight Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - The Stanley News & Press
• 10 Tips to Promote Infant Safe Sleep - The North Carolina Pediatric Society
• Christine O'Meara Wins Child Health Award - Chapel Hill News
• Iredell Memorial Hospital Joins Healthy Start Foundation to Fight SIDS - Iredell Memorial

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Press Releases

• N.C. Healthy Start Foundation Hosts Regional Trainings to Launch Community Grants Program and New Resources for Local Agencies
• N.C. Healthy Start Foundation launches Spanish website
• Fundación Healthy Start de Carolina del Norte
  crea nueva página de Internet en español
• North Carolina health professionals trained in infant safe sleep
• Income guidelines for North Carolina's child health insurance programs to increase on
  April 1st
• Latino Health Educator joins N.C. Healthy Start Foundation
• N.C. Healthy Start Foundation announces new First Step Campaign Coordinator
• African American Nurses Raise SIDS Awareness
• Public Health Leader Joins N.C. Healthy Start Foundation Board
• Web Site Administrator Honored for Efforts to Improve Health of N.C. Mothers and Babies
• Hospitals raise SIDS awareness in October
• Lexington Memorial Hospital to raise sudden infant death syndrome awareness (SIDS)
• 2001-2005 SIDS Rates by County (PDF)
• Lexington Memorial to give safe sleep onesies to all babies born in hospital in October

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Opinions

• 2/ 9/07 - Executive Director Janice A. Freedman, Letter to the Editor (Winston-Salem Journal)
• 12/12/06 - Board member, Dr. Eleanor E. Greene, M.D., M.P.H.,
  Letter to the Editor (Greensboro News-Record.com)

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iNCite Articles

• 2007 N.C. Infant Mortality Rate Increases 5 Percent: Lets' Focus on family to make a difference - September, 2008
• Encouraging Fathers to Create Safe Sleep Environments - June, 2008
• The North Carolina Medicaid Family Planning Waiver - May, 2008
• Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome in North Carolina - April, 2008
• Girls, Gardasil and Good Protection - March, 2008
• Eating for Two, the Safe Way - February, 2008
• A Vitamin that Prevents Birth Defects and Helps Sickle Cell Patients - January, 2008

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Maternidad Latina

• Listening to and Learning from Latino Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs - Vol. 2 No. 5: September, 2008
• Latina Baby Care Traditions - Vol. 2 No. 4: July, 2008
• A Close Look at Preventing Teen Pregnancy amoung Latinas - Vol. 2 No. 3: May, 2008
• Understanding Bereavement in Latino Families: A
  Practical Guide for Practitioners - Vol. 2 No. 2: March, 2008
• Are pregnant Latino women at greater risk for listeriosis? - Vol. 2, No. 1: January/February, 2008

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Report

2007 Report to the Community