New CCP Work to Focus on Reducing Congenital Syphilis
The Baltimore City Health Department has awarded CCP $225,000 to encourage testing and treating for the potentially deadly infection.
The Baltimore City Health Department has awarded CCP $225,000 to encourage testing and treating for the potentially deadly infection.
The Policy Learning Collaborative is a course not only in policy, but in how people can participate in decision making in their community. CCP is among the partners on the effort.
Building off a decade of success in Baltimore health programs, CCP looks to expand its domestic initiatives.
“Tina’s invaluable leadership helps foster an environment of self-reflection and growth – an environment where we can become better versions of ourselves in our journey to be of service to others,” says CCP’s August Summers.
To help new moms and dads, CCP is part of a state grant to B’more for Healthy Babies to coordinate their needs during pregnancy and beyond.
“Behind these numbers are human lives,” says CCP’s Tina Suliman. “There are people we love, community members in these numbers.”
CCP created a story and activity book for “kids and their grown-ups” designed to spark conversations about the pandemic and vaccines.
CCP is working with the Baltimore City Health Department on a flu vaccination campaign. It is especially important for people to get their flu shots this year, given the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no vaccine for COVID-19.
A new CCP video helps young dads learn from those who have been in their shoes. “This models that even good dads have missteps along the way and that the most important thing is to learn from those and try to move forward,” says CCP’s Tina Suliman.
Eighty churches around the city celebrated Precious Purple Sunday by raising awareness to prevent infant deaths. “Faith-based organizations are critical partners in the effort to educate Baltimore’s families about how to keep babies safe and healthy,” says CCP’s Amber Summers.
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