Redirecting how we can change young mothers’ future with exercise, suitable housing, nutrition, and optimum medical care.
The Covering Circle-Mandie Bread Basket goal is to assist these young mothers with tools which they can utilize each day for a healthier tomorrow. Through this system children will be healthier due to the mothers’ learning how to manage themselves in the community with marketable skills, using new skills to change the trajectory of their lives. Learning about the effects of how mothers and children are statistically positions in society, and how we as a nation must change the lives of children, and their caregivers. Mis-education has to change in how information is obtained and given by those whose role it is to educate others. We have a responsibility to help, motivate, and advocate for the needs of others whom have no voice. One of the goals of The Covering Circle-Mandie Bread Basket is to get others involved in strengthening the role of the mother and child bond with exercises, healthy eating that they will pass on to others as part of Mandie Bread Basket. There are so many variables that can occur with a young mother and her children. Lack of adequate services for health, nutrition, and housing continues to put constraints on our system. There has to be a restructuring of many of the agencies that are working with these vulnerable individuals. Educating these young mothers are the first step in changing their futures.
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Implementing efforts made in community settings to provide social support for increasing physical activity are recommended based on strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing physical activity and improving physical fitness among adults. Social support interventions focus on changing physical activity behavior through building, strengthening, and maintaining social networks that provide supportive relationships for behavior change (e.g., setting up a buddy system, making contracts with others to complete specified levels of physical activity, or setting up walking groups or other groups to provide friendship and support).
Women and children are essential to socio-economic progress around the world. Yet they also suffer from some of the greatest inequities and vulnerabilities in terms of the burden of preventable disease. Maternal and child mortality statistics alone do not tell the entire story, but the estimates are overwhelming. In 2013, 289,000 women died as a result of pregnancy and childbirth, and there were a staggering 6.2 million deaths among newborns and children under the age of 5. These deaths occur disproportionately in poorer regions of the world. While childbearing in the developed world is safer than it has ever been, 99% of women who die from pregnancy-related causes are in developing countries. Maternal mortality rates are at their highest throughout Africa: 40 of the 41 countries with highest mortality rates are in Africa. Thirty-seven of the 41 highest under-five mortality rates are also in Africa.
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) is a relatively new specialty in the US, only formally recognized in 1980. In recent years, the field of global health has gained significant traction in this specialty. International Emergency Medicine (IEM) is also a rapidly growing field, with the first IEM fellowship program starting in 1996. These IEM programs have traditionally combined adult emergency medicine programs with focused international training. An area that has yet to receive much attention is the discipline of global PEM.
With the WHO Millennium Development Goal of reducing the under-five mortality rate globally by 2015, the role of PEM in the care of sick children became increasing crucial in the past few years. Most pediatric healthcare centers in resource limited settings lack essential infrastructure and supplies, and evidence suggests that inadequate initial patient assessment and delays in delivering life-saving treatment result in poor patient outcomes. Interventions to improve pediatric emergency care directly lead to a reduction in mortality. Within the field of pediatric global health, PEM stands uniquely poised as the bridge between primary care and definitive tertiary care. As such, clinical, educational, and research initiatives directed at PEM entry points can have a profound impact on reducing child mortality.
Shelly Nortz
Deputy Executive Director for Policy says in a committee hearing
More than 111,000 different homeless New Yorkers, including more than 40,000 children sleep in the NYC municipal shelter system each year, and this constitutes more than 85 percent of the homeless population in all of New York State. It likely comes as no surprise to the members of this committee that the great majority of families and individuals who are homeless require some form of housing assistance in order to secure and retain stable permanent housing.
The status quo is unsustainable, and while some important incremental improvements have been made by the City and State in recent months, including new rental assistance programs, better HRA outreach to prevent evictions, and more placements of homeless families in public housing, these efforts fall short of what is needed to turn the tide.
Unfortunately, for example, the current City plan only provides 750 annual public housing placements for homeless households, and that number should be at least 2,500 per year. Under current practice, most vacancies are filled by NYCHA without assessing the actual housing needs of the applicants. At a time of record homelessness, we need more targeting of public housing resources to those most in need, as has previously been the practice of all administrations except the last.
In addition, there are a number of improvements needed to make the new rental assistance programs more viable and effective, including:
• a good-cause waiver allowing families to receive rental assistance after five years upon demonstration of ongoing need;
• more realistic work requirements, such as at least 20 hours per week, rather than 35 per week;
• inclusion of families, such as those with disabilities or receiving public assistance, who do not have employment income;
• allowances for those whose benefits may have been cut off in error; and
• Use of Fair Market Rents levels as the benchmarks for the program.
State Actions that Can Help Solve Record Homelessness
We know what works to solve homelessness – countless studies have proven the effectiveness and fiscal prudence of sensible solutions including eviction prevention, long-term rental assistance, permanent supportive housing, and maximizing the use of federal resources including public assistance, disability benefits, and public housing.
Research done by Behavioral & Social Approaches to Increase Physical Act physical activity in communities. (Community Guide Recommendation) shows learning different skills will help our young mothers to change their lives and future generations.
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