Getting off to a healthystart
National Healthy Start Association Newsletter Fall 2007 Shake, Rattle and Roll! National Healthy Start Association Holds Second Leadership Training Institute Greetings from the President Introducing the New President From the CEO's Desk Pointers from Peggy Two New Projects Join Healthy Start Family View from the Hill National Healthy Start Association Introduces the Male Involvement / Dads Matter Initiative Partner’s Corner Healthy Start to be Featured at Preconception Summit Consumer Spotlight on Charlene Moseley CEO Sanchez Mills Helps New Orleans Rebuilding Efforts News from the Projects Research News: Maternal Health Research and Michael C. Lu, MD, MS MPH Mark Your Calendar Healthy Start in the News Visit National Healthy Start Association’s Web Site Stay in Touch! Become a Friend of Healthy Start _________________ Printer-friendly page links to the articles on this web page: Printer-friendly page: Consumer Spotlight on Charlene Moseley Printer-friendly page: CEO Sanchez Mills Helps New Orleans Rebuilding Efforts	Consumer Spotlight on Charlene Moseley Charlene Moseley Charlene Moseley, a 34-year-old single mother of three, is a Low Country Healthy Start (LCHS) participant and member of the LCHS Consortium Board. A resident of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Charlene is the mother of Sha’kima, 16; Jagetta, 14; and Kynia, now two years old (her LCHS baby). Charlene entered the program as a high-risk postpartum client when Kynia was a low birthweight two-month-old infant. Charlene was recruited into the program by Outreach Staff and became a member of LCHS’s Consortium Board in 2006, representing the community and program participant population. She has benefited greatly from the education and crisis support provided by her social worker, Rubena Fogle. “In time of crisis and stress, I can always call on my social worker,” says Charlene. “Low Country Healthy Start is always there to assist with informing me about needed resources in the community.” Charlene specifically notes a consumer meeting held November 2005, offering enrichment / life skill / career opportunities and health education that helped to guide her future career path. With support from LCHS staff and learning about career and education opportunities available through Job Service and the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Charlene decided she wanted more for herself and her family than her minimum wage job at a local dry cleaner. In May 2006, she began a six-week training session at Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College to become a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). After taking the State Board Certification exam in July 2006, and meeting the needed requirements, Charlene received her CNA Certificate. Charlene began her new career as a CNA on October 2, 2006. Employed at a nursing home in Calhoun County, she now has a better income and benefits. “My children and family inspired me to not quit, but to go on,” shares Charlene. Encouraged by her teenage daughters to practice what she preached in regard to education and being the best you can be, she followed her own advice and is now reaping the rewards. Low Country Healthy Start is proud of Charlene’s accomplishments and wishes her well with all her future endeavors. Fogle states, “Charlene will continue to climb the hill of success." CEO Sanchez Mills Helps New Orleans Rebuilding Efforts National Healthy Start Association’s CEO Peggy Sanchez Mills, third row on left, joined other national leaders and elected officials to paint a school and plant a garden in New Orleans. National Healthy Start Association’s CEO, Peggy Sanchez Mills, attended a meeting in June, called "Using Limited Health Dollars Wisely: What States Can Do to Create the Health System They Want." The meeting was co-sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the National Governors Association, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, AMCHP and the National Association of County and City Health Officials. While at the conference, Sanchez Mills and a team of volunteers painted and planted a garden at a New Orleans school, with Hands On New Orleans. The Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. Hands On Network creates and manages nearly 50,000 projects a year and is made up of 58 national and international volunteer organizations that act as entrepreneurial civic action centers. Said Martha King, NCSL’s Health Program Group Director, “We were motivated to try to help out in some way and Hands On found a work project and supplied volunteers to guide us.”
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