1. Welcome Thank you March of Dimes for the use of this technology. There are over 400 registered participants for this call. As such, all phones will be automatically muted during the webinar. If you have a question, please post it via the chat function. There will be time at the end of the webinar for Q&A. Questions will be taken from chat. Submit questions as soon as they come to mind – we’ll keep track of them! Slides, speaker bios and speaker contact info are available at http://everywomansoutheast.org/initiatives/sharing- ideas-and-resourceshttp://everywomansoutheast.org/initiatives/sharing- ideas-and-resources

2. February 10, 2011 12:00-1:30pm EST Webinar Every Woman Southeast Improving Interconception Care for High-Risk Mothers Today’s webinar is possible thanks to support from the March of Dimes

3. About “Every Woman” California created the Every Woman, Every Time preconception toolkit for professionals in the early 2000’s. Florida obtained permission in 2008 to update those materials under the EveryWoman Florida moniker; other states are using EveryWoman, too. EveryWoman gives a common reference for the campaign without the use of the term “preconception”. Principles based on the framework in the CDC Recommendations for Preconception Health: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/preconception/QandA_provi ders.htm#1 http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/preconception/QandA_provi ders.htm#1

4. What is Every Woman Southeast? An initiative among leaders in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee to build multi-state, multi-layered partnerships to improve the health of women and infants in the southeast. We hope to foster capacity building, resource sharing, increased funding and stimulate new ideas and products for moving the preconception health agenda forward.

5. Financial Support The National Office of the March of Dimes The Florida, Alabama and Georgia Chapters of the March of Dimes The Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Future – working on it!

6. Contact Information Contact for each state is listed on our website at www.EveryWomanSoutheast.org Sarah Verbiest sarahv@med.unc.edusarahv@med.unc.edu or (919) 843-7865 Lori Reeves lreeves@marchofdimes.comlreeves@marchofdimes.com or (407) 599-5077

7. Today’s Webinar Purpose: To share different models in the Southeast for improving the health and well-being of high-risk new mothers. Learning Objectives: a) Describe 3 models of providing interconception care to new mothers, b) discuss barriers and facilitators to serving this population of women, and c) describe benefits for mothers in reducing short birth intervals. Speakers: Experienced leaders in their states. Members of the regional leadership team. Information about each speaker is on our website.

8. The Challenge of Short Birth Intervals 12% of live births in the Southeast are to women who have an interval between delivery and conception of 6 months or less.

9. Benefits to Reducing Short Birth Intervals* It is best to wait 18 to 23 months after birth to get pregnant again When pregnancies are spaced too closely, mothers don’t have time to fully recover from the previous birth Longer intervals may reduce the risk of preterm or low birthweight births, early neonatal death, or congenital malformations Having babies too close together may increase the risk of SIDS *Source: marchofdimes.com

11. Integrative Approaches to Optimizing Mental and Physical Health among Adolescents & Women of Reproductive Age 7-Part Webinar Series launching on March 16, 2011 Webinars and related resources will be housed at Every Woman SE Training grant funded by U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau Women’s Integrated Systems for Health WISH

12. 3 rd National Summit on Preconception Health June 12-14, 2011 Tampa, Florida Register at beforeandbeyond.org Every Woman SE has been invited to be a partner in convening this Summit!

13. Next Steps for YOU Respond to our brief follow-up survey from Survey Monkey Connect with your state Every Woman SE group. Send us info about successful interconception programs that you know about – send to sarahv@med.unc.edu or lreeves@marchofdimes.com Sign up for our listserv, follow our blog and bookmark our website. Let us know if you’d like to help with our first initiative to reduce short birth intervals. Let us know if you have suggestions for potential funders