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SUSTAINABILITY

​PROJECT GOAL STATEMENT:

​The CHAMPS Sustainability initiative aims to ensure that evidence-based, high quality maternity care is maintained for perpetuity in Mississippi. This involves immediately engaging Baby-Friendly Designated Mississippi hospitals, to ensure continuity, solidification, and permanence of their new maternity care practices and standards that support exclusive breastfeeding. We intend to do this by:
  • Analyzing successful implementation strategies to identify key elements for sustainability
  • Responding in real time to challenges associated with sustainability for improved maternity care standards 

​The main components of this project include:
  1. Ongoing data collection and analysis on the factors that influence sustainability
  1. Individual technical support and collaborative learning among designated hospitals
  2. CHAMPS RAMPS, an effort to improve the outcome measure of exclusive breastfeeding
  3. Continuous staff training and education
  4. Continuous statewide training 
  5. Sustainability panels at annual CHAMPS conferences

​NEW CHAMPS GRANT FROM THE BOWER FOUNDATION!

​January 1, 2019
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CHEER has received a new, 3-year grant from the Bower Foundation to continue work with Baby-Friendly designated Mississippi hospitals.
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“This new grant will help us to work directly with Baby-Friendly designated hospitals in Mississippi, to help them ingrain the new policies and practices, and to support them with ongoing training and data collection,” said Anne Merewood PhD MPH, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at BUSM, and Director of CHEER and CHAMPS. “Also, it will help us to work across Mississippi to engage statewide support.”
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Already, CHAMPS has a working relationship with WIC, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi, and MSPQC (the Mississippi Perinatal Quality Collaborative). ​Community level support is provided by ROSE (Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere), a national organization supporting breastfeeding among women of color. ​
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Merit Health Wesley
UMMC Jackson
Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi
South Sunflower Medical Center
​“This work is really supporting a more humane and evidence-based approach to maternal child health at the hospital level – it’s about much more than breastfeeding,” says Dr Merewood. “But sometimes it takes time for new policies and practices to become accepted and routine. This new grant will help Mississippi hospitals to establish Baby-Friendly practices as the norm.” ​​
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  • Home
  • About
    • Our Mission
    • Our History
    • Our Team
    • Contact Us
    • Support Our Work
  • Current Projects
    • Mississippi CHAMPS
    • COVID-19 >
      • For MCH Providers >
        • National/International Guidance
        • Hospital/Provider Experiences
      • For Families with Babies
      • CHAMPS COVID-19 Response
      • COVID-19 and MCH Research
    • RWJ Healthy Eating Research
    • Trainings, Webinars & Conferences
  • Past Projects
    • AI/AN Health >
      • AI/AN CHAMPS
      • MSPI/DVPI Technical Assistance
      • CHAs and CHIPs >
        • Blackfeet Community Health Assessment
        • Northern Cheyenne Community Health Assessment
        • Rocky Boy's Community Health Assessment
        • Blackfeet Community Health Improvement Plan
      • Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselor Course
    • CHAMPS South
  • CHEERING
    • CHEERing: CHEER International - Greece >
      • CHEER Greece: Refugees >
        • Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies
        • Infant Feeding Data in Athens
        • Camp Mapping
  • News
    • News from CHEER
    • News from the Field
  • Resources
    • IYCFE Resources
    • Breastfeeding/Baby-Friendly Resources >
      • Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
      • Current Research
      • Useful Websites
      • Policy Statements & Position Papers
      • Training for Healthcare Professionals
      • Patient Education Materials
      • Breastfeeding in the Workplace
      • Breastfeeding and the Law
      • Ban the Bags
    • Breastfeeding in Scripture
    • Our Publications
  • Champions
    • Lifetime Achievement Awards