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Best Babies Zone New Orleans

Health Start New Orleans & LSU Health Sciences Center March 2014

National Partners

Funded by WK Kellogg Foundation

Led by UC Berkley

National Partners

NHSA

AMCHP

City MatCH

Strategies

1. A small zone is selected where change is greatly needed and resources are aligned to produce and measure impact

2. A broad collaborative is formed to work across four sectors (health, economics, education and community) to achieve collective impact

3. A social movement is cultivated within the city to do whatever it takes to improve birth outcomes in the zone

Best Babies Zone

Price Hill Neighborhood, Cincinnati, Ohio in partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Santa Maria Communtiy Services, and Every Child Succeeds

Castlemont Neighborhood, Oakland, California in partnership with Alameda County Department of Health and UC Berkley

Hollygrove Neighborhood, New Orleans Louisiana

BBZ NOLA Leadership

Hollygrove-Dixon Community Snapshot

20.2% LBW

18.3% LBW

Hollygrove BBZ Community Snapshot

Source: Orleans Parish: Data from U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 American Community Survey; Best Babies Zone:

Data from U.S. Census Bureau, 2007-2011 American Community Survey, Census Tracts 72, 75.02; except birth

outcomes data (Orleans Parish: County Health Rankings 2013; Best Babies Zone: Office of Public Health 2012).

Orleans Parish, LA Best Baby Zone

Total population 369,250 4,597

People living in Poverty 28.7% 30.1%

Median household income $34,361 $25,732

Unemployed 12.3% 20.9%

No diploma 15.3% 21.6%

Number of women 15 to 50 years

old who had a birth in the past 12

months

4,363 170

Low Birth Weight

(<2500g) 13.0% 20.2%

African American 59.8% 93.4%

Meeting Our Neighbors

Trinity Christian Community

Louisiana Public Health Institute

Hollygrove Community Development Corporation

Hollygrove Seniors

Hollygrove Market and Farm

Olive Street Superette

AARP

Health

Title V & X

NOHD

A Woman’s Place

Daughters of Charity

Education

Agenda for Children

Lafayette Charter Academy

Family Child Care

Economics

NORA

Iberia Bank

Job One

Social & Community

PISAB

Total Community Action

Greater New Orleans Foundation

Code Enforcement

Key Cross Sector Partners

Outreach

Weekly door-to-door outreach on health, education, economic, social and community services

Special events including baby showers, health screenings, mental health outreach

Health

Educate community about the prevalence of LBW in Hollygrove

Educate community about causes and effects of LBW

Use reproductive life maps to educate women on planning, spacing, and other preconception heath ideas

Conducte Well Woman Day

Maternal and child health impact assessment of air, soil, and blight in Hollygrove, New Orleans, LA

Health

Complex network of schools

Partnered with family child care providers to survey parents about community resources and needs

Partnered with area school to conduct focus group on parent’s needs

Conducted outreach on affordable child care

Education

Economics

Partnered with Job One to share information on summer jobs programs

Social Change

Hosted Action Learning Collaborative on Undoing Racism

Healthy Start, Title V, Title X, Tulane University, Fatherhood Consortium, and Trinity Christian Community

Staff from all organizations attended Undoing Racism training

Participating in community conversations on proposed railroad move

Community

Collective Impact Training

Looking Ahead

Health

Well Woman Days

Air and soil analysis

Health impact assessment on train

Code enforcement and grant assistance for corner store

Education

Dunbar Elementary, 2015

Partnership with Head Start

YMCA Literacy Training

Looking Ahead

Economics

ProServ Culinary Training

Healthy, Affordable Housing Summit

Social & Community Change

Blight reduction

Lighting

Moms groups

Undoing Racism Community Training

Stand up for Children Parent Advocacy

Vision

Vision

Thank you!