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Cradle Kalamazoo, is a multi-agency community initiative that aims to identify and implement evidence-based and holistic interventions to reduce infant death and promote respect for families, women, and their children. Cradle Kalamazoo’s scope has been maternal-infant health, as pregnant women have been a priority focus from our inception. Our strategies are data-driven from our Fetal Infant Mortality Review Team (FIMR) to create best practice recommendations that are specific to the needs of our community.<\/p>\n
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Cradle Kalamazoo offers programs in the following priority areas: Health Equity, Family Support Services, Reproductive Health, and Safe Sleep.<\/p>\n
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Cradle Kalamazoo\u00a0understands that pregnancy and raising children can be difficult. It takes a village to raise a child. Cradle Kalamazoo is coordinating care and services offered by\u00a0Family Support Programs\u00a0that are dedicated to providing support services for pregnant\/expectant mothers and infants.\u00a0These programs offer resources for parents and infants both inside and outside the home.\u00a0Our Family Support Programs are family-focused and work with all members of a family to ensure mothers have a healthy pregnancy and infants have a healthy start in life.<\/p>\n
Families who participate in home visiting programs benefit from improved maternal, infant, and child health. Services promote positive parenting techniques, healthy child development, and school readiness. Home Visitors provide referrals to other support services for families in need.\u00a0Family Support Programs work together to ensure that you are receiving the best services possible and the concerns you identify together are resolved.<\/p>\n
For more information or to enroll in a program, please contact (269) 366-6201<\/strong> or visit our resources page.<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Fetal Infant Mortality Review” closed_toggle_text_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ff6633″ admin_label=”Fetal Infant Mortality Review” _builder_version=”4.18.1″ _module_preset=”default” title_level=”h2″ title_font_size=”16px” body_link_font=”||||on||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services<\/a> and Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine<\/a> are leading Kalamazoo’s Fetal-Infant Mortality Review (FIMR)<\/a>. FIMR is conducted monthly in order to understand and improve the factors that contribute to infant death in our community.<\/p>\n For more information\u00a0visit the Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services’ FIMR page.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Health Equity” closed_toggle_text_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ff6633″ admin_label=”Health Equity” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” title_level=”h2″ title_font_size=”16px” body_link_font=”||||on||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo believes that health equity is a key component needed by organizations to effectively provide services to pregnant\/expectant mothers, infants, and their families. Health Equity is the state in which everyone, regardless of identity (e.g., race, class, gender identity), has the opportunity to attain full health and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this. Health Equity is accomplished when institutions across sectors commit to becoming anti-racist organizations and remove obstacles to health \u2014 such as discrimination, poverty, deep imbalances in power, wealth, and resources \u2014 and their consequences, including racial disparities in infant mortality and birth outcomes. For more information on health equity, visit the Healthy People 2030 site<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo is striving towards educating community members and creating policies that empower individuals, programs, and institutions to become more culturally competent. Our partners learn about the history and environment that have contributed to the high racial disparities in infant death. They are also encouraged to make changes within their institutions that can facilitate understanding, communication, and access to services for mothers, expectant women, and their families.\u00a0By bridging the cultural norms of service providers and clients\/patients, we as a community will help reduce infant deaths.<\/p>\n For health equity resources, visit our resources page.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Reproductive Health” closed_toggle_text_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ff6633″ admin_label=”Reproductive Health” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” title_level=”h2″ title_font_size=”16px” body_link_font=”||||on||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo is providing\u00a0the community with\u00a0Reproductive Health Education to promote spacing between births and healthy planned pregnancies. Unplanned and rapid repeat pregnancies can lead to infant death. Rapid repeat pregnancies\u00a0can result in babies that are too small and\/or\u00a0born too soon. Through education, families can better plan for their pregnancies. Our approach is to be respectful of everyone\u2019s religious and cultural beliefs, preferences, privacy, and personal circumstances.<\/p>\n To learn more about Reproductive Health Education\u00a0visit our resources page.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Research ” closed_toggle_text_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ff6633″ icon_color=”#ffffff” open_icon_color=”#ffffff” admin_label=”Research” _builder_version=”4.18.1″ title_level=”h2″ title_font_size=”16px” body_link_font=”||||on||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Through continuous data collection and evaluation of key indicators by Cradle Kalamazoo partners, together we\u00a0strive to identify and assist at risk pregnancies and infants in Kalamazoo County. This information will guide us\u00a0in updating and evolving programs to better serve our community.<\/p>\n Here is some of the research Cradle Kalamazoo is using to support our work\u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n Cathy Kothari, PhD<\/a> with the support of Kalamazoo County Healthy Babies Healthy Start<\/a>, performed an\u00a0Infant Mortality Trend Analysis<\/a>. In this study, Dr. Kothari found:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Safe Sleep” closed_toggle_text_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ff6633″ admin_label=”Safe Sleep” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” title_level=”h2″ title_font_size=”16px” body_link_font=”||||on||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo is working to ensure that every baby has a safe sleep environment. Unsafe sleep environments are a leading cause of infant death and are completely preventable. Sleep Safe is a nationally recognized program\u00a0<\/b>to\u00a0help protect your baby from sudden unexpected infant death syndrome (also called SUIDS), suffocation, and other sleeping related dangers.<\/p>\n We recognize the importance of culture and individual preferences for child bearing and child rearing. We also recognize that safe sleep education is an on-going\u00a0conversation and not\u00a0a lecture. Cradle Kalamazoo\u00a0uses innovative ways to communicate with parents, grand parents, caregivers, health care providers, child care providers and everyone helping with caring for a baby.<\/p>\n For tools and to learn more, visit the “Safe Sleep” section of our resources page.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_text admin_label=”Goals” _builder_version=”4.16″ header_text_color=”#FFB81C” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_layout=”dark” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo’s goal is to reduce infant death and promote respect for families, women and their children. We plan on doing this by:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Partners” _builder_version=”4.16″ header_text_color=”#FFB81C” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_layout=”dark” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle consists of 24+ Community Partners that are committed to improving birth outcomes by creating zero disparities in infant mortality between Black and White babies born in Kalamazoo. Our goal is to report an overall infant mortality rate of less than 3.0 per 1,000 live births in Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_toggle title=”Full List of Partners” closed_toggle_text_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ff6633″ icon_color=”#ffffff” open_icon_color=”#ffffff” admin_label=”Full List of Partners” _builder_version=”4.18.1″ title_level=”h2″ title_font_size=”16px” body_link_font=”||||on||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo would not have been possible without the dedication and support of many individuals and the following organizations<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Funders” closed_toggle_text_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ff6633″ icon_color=”#ffffff” open_icon_color=”#ffffff” admin_label=”Funders” _builder_version=”4.20.2″ title_level=”h2″ title_font_size=”16px” body_font=”||||||||” body_link_font=”||||on||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Thank you to our funders! Without them, the work of Cradle Kalamazoo wouldn’t be possible.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_text admin_label=”Strategy” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ header_text_color=”#FFB81C” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_layout=”dark” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo follows a collective impact strategy that progresses from collaborative planning and capacity building to target community actions and intervention to community system changes. Launched in 2014, Cradle Kalamazoo, previously know as Kalamazoo Infant Mortality Community Action Initiative (KIMCAI), centers its work on a public health model that recognizes people live in a social and environmental context that affects their health. A combination of distal (structural, political, and economic) factors and more proximate (community, organizational, family, and individual) contribute individually and together to explain the observed phenomenon of racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality. As such, work toward overcoming these factors must include organizations that touch on these varying distal and proximate factors.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Commitment” _builder_version=”4.18.1″ header_text_color=”#FFB81C” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_layout=”dark” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cradle Kalamazoo is committed to improving birth outcomes in our Community through deliberate and intensive communitywide action, which combines grassroots engagement, a focus on Equity and Health Equity, evidence and practice-based programs, targeted service delivery, institutional coordination, and measured accountability.<\/p>\n YWCA Kalamazoo, a nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) organization, serves as a primary resource for economic, gender and racial justice for all women, children and families in Kalamazoo. YWCA Kalamazoo is the fiduciary for the Cradle Kalamazoo collaboration. As such, YWCA Kalamazoo acknowledges and receipts all grants and philanthropy for Cradle Kalamazoo with rare exceptions when the funder of a grant or an individual philanthropist requires or insists their funds go directly to a different organization.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Board Members” _builder_version=”4.18.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#536595″ text_font_size=”14px” text_line_height=”1.5em” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_text_color=”#536595″ header_3_text_color=”#696158″ background_color=”#FFFFFF” custom_padding=”2em|2em|2em|2em|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Danielle Raymond, RN<\/strong><\/p>\n Ashant\u00e9 Collins <\/strong><\/p>\n Jeaninne Butler-Sytsema<\/b>\u00a0 Brenda O\u02bcRourke, RN, BSN\u00a0<\/strong> Nia Evans, MPH<\/strong> Cassy Jones-McBryde<\/strong> Sravani Alluri, MD<\/strong> Dr. Jennifer Frink, DO<\/strong> Aaron Lane-Davies, MD, FAAP<\/strong> Denise Crawford<\/strong> Dianne Shaffer<\/strong> Sandy Barry-Loken<\/strong> Jennifer Heymoss<\/strong> Jim Rutherford<\/strong> Deb Lenz<\/strong> Pastor Addis Moore<\/strong> Pastor Lenzy Bell<\/strong> Alyssa Stewart<\/strong> Cheryl Dickson, MD, MPH<\/strong> Lisa Graves, MD<\/strong> Demetrias Wolverton<\/strong> Cathy Kothari, PhD<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Annual Reports Collection” module_id=”annual-report” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider color=”#FFB81C” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=”Annual Reports (Heading)” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_2_text_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Please click the image of the report to view the full resolution PDF version of each report.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.cradlekalamazoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2022-1920×1483-1.png” alt=”Cover of the 2022 Cradle Kalamazoo Annual Report.” title_text=”Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2022-1920×1483″ url=”https:\/\/www.cradlekalamazoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2022.pdf” url_new_window=”on” admin_label=”2022 Annual Report” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Past Reports (Heading)” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_text_color=”#ffffff” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ admin_label=”Thumbnails of Past Reports” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.cradlekalamazoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2021-800×618-1.png” alt=”Cover of the 2021 Cradle Kalamazoo Annual Report.” title_text=”Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2021-800×618″ url=”https:\/\/www.cradlekalamazoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2021.pdf” url_new_window=”on” admin_label=”2021 Annual Report” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.cradlekalamazoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2020-800×618-1.png” alt=”Cover of the 2020 Cradle Kalamazoo Annual Report.” title_text=”Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2020-800×618″ url=”https:\/\/www.cradlekalamazoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cradle-Kalamazoo-Annual-Report-2020.pdf” url_new_window=”on” admin_label=”2020 Annual Report” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About Cradle Kalamazoo Cradle Kalamazoo, is a multi-agency community initiative that aims to identify and implement evidence-based and holistic interventions to reduce infant death and promote respect for families, women, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":28860,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\n\n
Goals<\/h2>\n
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Partners<\/h2>\n
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Strategy<\/h2>\n
Commitment<\/h2>\n
Board Members<\/h2>\n
Health Equity Subcommittee Chairs<\/h3>\n
<\/strong>ISAAC Kalamazoo<\/p>\nFrontline & Care Coordination Subcommittee Chairs<\/strong><\/h3>\n
<\/span>Director of Maternal & Child Health,YWCA Kalamazoo<\/span><\/p>\n
MCH Division Manager, KCHCS<\/p>\nFetal Infant Mortality Review<\/h3>\n
Population Health Research Coordinator, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine<\/p>\nReproductive Health Sub-Committee Chairs<\/h3>\n
Community member<\/p>\n
Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine\/Director of Street Medicine Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine<\/p>\nAscension Borgess<\/h3>\n
OB\/GYN Department Chair<\/p>\nBronson Health<\/h3>\n
Chief of Quality, Bronson Medical Group<\/p>\nFamily Health Center<\/h3>\n
President & CEO<\/p>\nIntegrated Services of Kalamazoo<\/h3>\n
Director of Systems Development<\/p>\nKZCF<\/h3>\n
Vice President of Grants<\/p>\n
Vice President – Initiatives and Public Policy<\/p>\nKCHCS<\/h3>\n
Health Officer\/Director<\/p>\n
Deputy Health Officer Health & Community Services Department<\/p>\nNMA<\/h3>\n
President, NMA<\/p>\n
Vice President, NMA<\/p>\nUWBCKR<\/h3>\n
VP, Impact & Engagement<\/p>\nWMed<\/h3>\n
Associate Dean Health Equity and Community Affairs<\/p>\n
Associate Dean Faculty Affairs\/Interim Chair Department of Family and Community Medicine<\/p>\nYWCA<\/h3>\n
Vice President of Social Justice & Advocacy<\/p>\nVoting Ex Officio<\/h3>\n
Cradle Kalamazoo Senior Epidemiologist<\/p>\nCradle Kalamazoo Annual Reports<\/h2>\n
Previous Annual Reports<\/h3>\n