Mother & Child Health Coalition

Helping every mother and child in the Kansas City area to be healthy

PROGRAMS

About Us

MCHC Goals, History and People.

Children are our future.

Ensuring their health is a goal the Mother & Child Health Coalition works toward every day by promoting cooperation among individuals, major health institutions, other community organizations concerned with maternal/child health issues, and metropolitan and state governments.

The Coalition serves as a catalyst for bringing together resources to promote maternal/child and community planning that leads to better lives for women, children and families. It is the only area organization that focuses on both maternal and child health.

The Coalition was founded in the early 1980's, evolving from efforts to improve the health status of vulnerable mothers and children. In early 1995 the Mid America Immunization Coalition was added to the Coalition's programs. Today, our programs include:

• Kansas City Healthy Start

• Mid America Immunization Coalition

• FIMR (Fetal Infant Mortality Review)

• Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative
       - Eat Small Campaign
       - Weighing In Collaborative

• Safe Kids Metro KC

The Coalition Works for Maternal/Child Health by:

• Facilitating community efforts to improve the organization and delivery of maternal / child health services and regional planning.

• Monitoring healthcare reform and other legislative issues.

• Developing and implementing model standards for metropolitan planning. The standards allow monitoring and evaluation of the ongoing quality of health efforts in the community.

• Developing alliances with urban groups, other MCH organizations, local businesses, and third-party payers to allocate resources to community priorities and increase access to services for women, infants and children.

• Collecting data on the region's maternal/child health status and current use of health services.

• Creating and fostering opportunities for the growth and nurturing of relationships among members.

• Educating members and the community about current issues and strategies.

• Reducing teen pregnancy

• Encouraging early prenatal care

• Preventing low-birth-weight infants

• Reducing infant mortality

• Reducing use of drugs, alcohol and smoking in pregnant women

• Promoting breastfeeding

• Decreasing sexually transmitted diseases

• Preventing HIV infection

• Lowering incidences of breast and cervical cancer in women of childbearing ages

• Preventing violence

• Preventing physical and sexual abuse

• Preventing injury

• Increasing immunization rates

• Decreasing lead poisoning

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OUR VISION:
Every mother and child in the greater Kansas City area will be healthy.

OUR MISSION:
Every child deserves a healthy start. It is the best gift a community gives its children and itself.
The Mother & Child Health Coalition works together with community partners to promote wellness
and advocate excellence in health care for mothers and children.

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MCHCGKC is the consortium for Kansas City Healthy Start

6400 Prospect Ave., Suite 216, Kansas City, MO 64132

Phone (816) 283-6242     Fax (816) 283-0307