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The Business Case for Breastfeeding Supporting breastfeeding employees is good for business. Employers who provide a supportive environment to help women continue breastfeeding after childbirth enjoy many proven benefits that directly affect their bottom line.  These include: Lower health care costs Lower turnover rates Lower absenteeism rates Higher employee productivity and morale Positive public relations […]

Position Title: Outreach Worker Position Summary:  The Outreach Worker will recruit pregnant women from the community for enrollment into the Kansas City Healthy Start program. The Kansas City Healthy Start Initiative (KCHSI).  KCHSI offers services and support for mothers, fathers, children and families in Jackson County, MO and Wyandotte County, KS before, during and after […]

Click here for a flier: 2017 ENG-SP MAIC Flu Clinics Schedule Final Fall Flu Clinic Schedule 2017 vacunas de influenza MO – ages 12 years and older/ mayores de 12 años KS – ages 7 years and older/ mayores de 7 años SEPTEMBER/SEPTEMBRE Date/Fecha Time/Tiempo Address/Dirección Age/Edad Thursday/jueves 9/14 11am-2pm Jack Reardon Community Center 520 Minnesota […]

Friday, October 27, 2017 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. Alex George Auditorium St. Joseph Medical Center Community Center for Health & Education 1000 Carondelet Dr. KCMO 64114 REGISTER Goals of the Meeting: • Learn about the budgets of Kansas and Missouri and their impacts upon health care. • Understand the Child Health Insurance Program’s origin and […]

  NEWS  RELEASE  –  August 9, 2017                                                                                      #2017-26   FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE    CONTACT:     Technical Trooper Stephen La Row, KHP, (785) 296-6800 Cherie Sage, Safe Kids Kansas, (785) 296-1223 Brianna Landon, KDOT Communications Director, (785) 291-3956   Safe Kids Kansas, KDOT, KHP urge parents to talk to kids about pedestrian safety & more before class […]

Safe Kids Metro KC is one of the co-sponsors for this event and will be providing bike helmets, water bottles and bike reflectors.  We are going to be partnering with BIKEWALK KC who will provide safety education and certified bike helmet fitters.  Safety tips pertaining to bikes and other youth-based safety information and materials will […]

40 children have already died so far this year: # Date City Temp Name Age 40 10/11/2017 Natalbany, LA 89° Daverick Michael Coffey 8 mo 39 9/25/2017 Birmingham, AL 87° Dra Kadyn Hudson 3 yr 38 9/11/2017 St. Louis, MO 81° Tate Mitchell 1 yr 37 8/31/2017 Metairie, LA 90° Claire Li 11 mo 36 […]

“Sleep Safely, Sleep Soundly: Best Practices for Safe Sleep” For POWERPOINT presentations from this event visit the Meeting Notes & Links page: http://mchc.net/news-events/meeting-notes-links/  This activity is joint provided by Mother & Child Health Coalition and Children’s Mercy Kansas City Contact: Anne Biswell (816) 283-6242 ext. 226  abiswell@mchc.net    (816) 806-9929 cell Friday, July 28, 2017  8:00 […]

The Kansas City Healthy Start Initiative (KCHSI) served as host for the 2017 Healthy Start Regional Meeting June 8 and 9 at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center in Kansas City.  The Missouri Bootheel Healthy Start project, located in Sikeston, MO served as co-host. Coordination and planning of this two-day meeting was provided under the leadership […]