Barbara Clinton frames the Maternal-Infant Health Outreach Worker Project (MIHOW) as a sustainability-driven next step to the care and relationships initiated by Coalition health fairs. She delineates the role outreach workers filled and the immense impact local women had on promoting pregnancy support and prenatal care in rural areas. See the full length video of this …
Barbara Clinton explains how partnerships between local community health clinics and the Center for Health Services (CHS) facilitated the development of the Maternal-Infant Health Outreach Worker Project (MIHOW). It was up to the community-run clinics to outline criteria for and elect outreach workers for the Center’s program. See the full length video of this road trip conversation …
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Barbara Clinton shares how the Center for Health Services (CHS) acquired funding for the Maternal-Infant Health Outreach Worker Project (MIHOW), an effort initiated by Dick Couto’s ongoing attempts to convince the Ford Foundation to invest in Appalachia. She also names additional funding sources for the program which expanded MIHOW’s operations to other states once the …
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Barbara Clinton shares about the program she started as an appendage of the Student Health Coalition (SHC), known as the Maternal-Infant Health Outreach Worker Project (MIHOW). The largest and most renowned of the SHC’s various outgrowths, this program sought to draw on the talent of local hard-working, intelligent women to further support women’s health and …
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Ruth Ann Casper, a participant in the Maternal-Infant Health Outreach Worker Project (MIHOW), shares about the powerful impact of home visitors and their value as sources of emotional support and information during her first pregnancy. Scheryl Stout, a home visitor with the project, further discusses the support role of these outreach workers, characterizing home visitors …
Barbara Clinton explains what she learned of the challenges associated with midwifery in rural areas, traditionally known as granny midwives, and the Center’s resulting impetus to support local women with training and funding through the Maternal-Infant Health Outreach Worker Project (MIHOW). See the full length video of this road trip conversation to learn more about MIHOW.
[Contributed by Barbara Clinton, March 2022] The Center for Health Services (more recently the Center for Community Health Solutions) focused on uniting students and grassroots community leaders to facilitate community change from 1970-2013, sponsoring hundreds of public health and community service projects. All of the CHS-sponsored projects were designed to support grassroots people taking control …
Contributed by Dal Macon, February 2016 Working with the Student Health Coalition (SHC) during the summer of 1971, my role was to coordinate the support staff of non-medical students during each Health Fair. The background to the need for that position, I was told, came from the preceding summers. During ’69 and ’70 the experience …
Each of the timelines below chronologically documents the work and events of the Student Health Coalition, in addition to the origin and development of several other affiliate organizations. There are 7 timelines in total: Origin and Development of the Student Health Coalition (SHC) The Student Health Coalition in West Tennessee Health Fairs in St. Charles, …
