A community-based incentive program that helps families increase self-sufficiency and decrease low birth weight births and infant mortality by encouraging positive coupon distributors for new and gently used clothing and basic baby essentials.
This program aims to learn more about the loss of babies in Marion County, Indiana, and find ways to prevent future losses. Through case reviews and interviews with parents, we plan to improve resources and services to save the lives of more mothers and infants.
A community-based effort dedicated to improving birth outcomes and reducing the number of babies who die before their first birthday. Solutions are sought through promotion, innovative initiatives, and policy development.
This program offers education, referral, and support services to pregnant women and their families in an effort to eliminate disparities in birth outcomes and improve infant survival rates in Marion County.
This program focuses on addressing the nutrition needs and lifestyle choices of the community through education that is sensitive to individual cultures while emphasizing the relationship to health and wellness.
This program serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing supplemental healthy foods, breastfeeding support, health assessments, and referrals to healthcare and community resources matched to the applicants’ unique needs. WIC also serves to empower families through participant-focused nutrition education and fatherhood engagement activities.
Beds And Britches Etc. (B.A.B.E. of Indianapolis)
A community-based incentive program that helps families increase self-sufficiency and decrease low birth weight births and infant mortality by encouraging positive coupon distributors for new and gently used clothing and basic baby essentials.
Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR)
This program aims to learn more about the loss of babies in Marion County, Indiana, and find ways to prevent future losses. Through case reviews and interviews with parents, we plan to improve resources and services to save the lives of more mothers and infants.
Indianapolis Healthy Babies Consortium
A community-based effort dedicated to improving birth outcomes and reducing the number of babies who die before their first birthday. Solutions are sought through promotion, innovative initiatives, and policy development.
This program offers education, referral, and support services to pregnant women and their families in an effort to eliminate disparities in birth outcomes and improve infant survival rates in Marion County.
Nutrition Services
This program focuses on addressing the nutrition needs and lifestyle choices of the community through education that is sensitive to individual cultures while emphasizing the relationship to health and wellness.
Women, Infants, & Children Program (WIC)
This program serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing supplemental healthy foods, breastfeeding support, health assessments, and referrals to healthcare and community resources matched to the applicants’ unique needs. WIC also serves to empower families through participant-focused nutrition education and fatherhood engagement activities.