Ascension Wisconsin’s Blanket of Love Dads program helps equip new fathers with the tools they need to be successful parents.
infant mortality
NNS on Lake Effect Radio: Doulas of Color Collective
NNS reporter Naomi Waxman goes on the air with Lake Effect’s Joy Powers to talk about Doulas, pregnancy, and infant health and mortality.
New program teaches ‘ABCs’ for healthy infants
The goal of the recently opened Abundant Blessings Community Outreach Services is to reduce Milwaukee’s high infant mortality rate.
Despite setbacks, projects to reduce black infant mortality are getting underway
Twelve Milwaukee programs are slowly moving forward after receiving $2.25 million in grant funding from the Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families to help combat the city’s high black infant mortality rate.
World, Milwaukee leaders address how to reduce health disparities
As in many areas around the world, Milwaukee’s poor are also the least healthy. Health inequity for impoverished populations was the topic of a recent panel of world and local health care leaders gathered to discuss solutions to the crisis.
