Vision: Milwaukee is a model community with healthy, safe, hopeful and empowered residents
Strategic Question / Goal / Strategies / Possible process objectives for Action Teams(Healthiest State Project and assessment findings) / Collaborators / Community Themes / Data / Related Essential Public Health Services (% score) / Forces of Change:
Trends, Factors, and Events
How can we ensure healthy infant, child and teen development? / All infants, children and teens will have the opportunity for healthy development / Improve birth outcomes in the City of Milwaukee, with a focus on African Americans
Improve/Enhance prenatal care programs
Increase quality and access of early childhood education programs
Improve “school readiness” of children
Increase capacity and collaboration to provide support for youth in school and community settings
Increase parenting skills
Increase capacity to provide parenting education and support / Improving Birth Outcomes
Programs/Policies
Evaluate current homevisiting/ and pre-school interventions
Evaluate prenatal care program in the city to locate effective and best practices
Promoting Healthy Development
Programs
Develop/Implement parenting workshop to improve and teach parenting skills
Partner with Boys and Girls clubs, MPS, and other organizations focused on health teen behavior to plan feasible strategies
Policies
Advocate expanding comprehensive programs (i.e. Head Start and Early Start) into universal programs.
Programs/Policies
Integrate the special needs of infants, children and teens in other MAPP Goals
Implement universal Pre-Kindergarten programs
Encourage enrollment into youth empowerment programs / Challenges
Adverse birth outcomes-lower socioeconomic class, higher rate of LBW babies
High rate of infant mortality in African American babies
Parents lack information about children’s health
Parents are not engaged, children could have a good education
Lack of parental involvement
Lack of options for kids
Anger and stress
Safety outside the home
High teen pregnancy rate
Lack of affordable housing
Language barriers with health professionals
Access to health insurance
Vaccinations
Youth violence
Domestic violence
Security at schools
There are no incentives for teachers to bring up grades and encourage graduation from high school and beyond
Teachers do not encourage parents to become more involved and engaged.
Support teachable moments outside a formal classroom setting
Need for more education about co-sleeping and infant mortality
Need for job training
Assets
After-school programs
Family oriented activities
CBO’s
Caring, supportive neighbors
Close families
Grandmothers are great assets to parents in rearing kids
Family-oriented activities
Culture
Sense of community
Spirituality
Diversity
Church programs
Excellent universities
Mentoring programs
Opportunity for large change through working with youth
Youth talents
Youth desire to participate
Strong social services in City / African American Infant Mortality Rate 18/1000, is nearly three times the White rate2
In 2004, the teen pregnancy rate for Milwaukee was 52.67 per thousand 15-17 year old girls4
The local high school graduation rate hovers at around 60%.34
Two-thirds of teen moms never finish high school and are less apt to have a job paying above minimum wage and more likely to receive public assistance34
For African Americans babies, the leading causes included preterm birth and low birth weight (30.0%)37
The all-cause mortality rate of whites age 10-24 in Milwaukee is 47.0 deaths/100,000 white persons age 10-24, whereas the all-case mortality rate for blacks in the same age range is 103.2 deaths/100,000 black persons age 10-24. In the same age range, whites have a homicide mortality rate of 11.0 homicides/100,000 persons; blacks have a homicide mortality rate of 53.9 homicides/100,000 persons39 / EPHS 1. Monitor Health Status To Identify Community Health Problems (56%)
EPHS 4. Mobilize Community Partnerships to Identify and Solve Health Problems (31%) /
- Need for parenting education and early childhood education programs
- Disparities in key health indicators (Infant mortality, teen pregnancy, homicide, insurance coverage, immunization rates)
- Multiple WIC sites
- High percentage of single parent families
- High incarceration rates
- Poverty in Milwaukee
- No Child Left Behind and chaos in funding for public schools has created climate where health is considered a frill
Footnotes
- Milwaukee Vital Records. 2005
- Baker, B., Chen, V., Fillmore, C., Blair, K., Michalski, K. & Paradowski, J. Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR). 2002-2004. Milwaukee Healthy Beginnings Project, Health Resources and Services Administration & Milwaukee Health Department
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Health Disparities: Bridging the Gap. 2000, reprinted 2005
- United Way of Greater Milwaukee. If Truth be Told Report. 2006
- Riverwest Health Initiative Riverwest Community Health Assessment, 2004-2006.
- Levine, Marc. After the Boom: Joblessness in Milwaukee Since 2000. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Economic Development. 2004.
- Acevedo-Garcia, D., McArdle, N., Osypuk, T.L., Lefkowitz, B. & Krimgold, B. Children Left Behind: How Metorpoliatn Areas are Failing Americans Children. HarvardSchool of Public Health & Center for the Advancement of Health. January 2007. diversitydata.org
- Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. Start Smart Milwaukee. 2005
- Community Health Improvement in Metcalfe and Concordia (CHIMC). “CHIMC Secondary Data Overview” 2006
- Pawasarat, J. & Quinn, L.. Legal Action Wisconsin Housing Report. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute. 2007
- Lapine, L., Larson, L., & Schmitter, A. Child Care for Children who are Mildly Ill: A Description of Perspectives from Child Care Providers, Parents and Employers. Planning Council for Health and Human Services, Inc. 2000.
- The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
- Aurora Health Care. Aurora Milwaukee Community Health Survey 2006. In Partnership with Milwaukee Health Department & Center for Urban Population Health. Prepared by JKV Research, LLC
- Aurora Health Care. Aurora Central Milwaukee Community Health Survey 2006. In Partnership with Milwaukee Health Department & Center for Urban Population Health. Prepared by JkV Research, LLC.
- WisconsinHospital Association.
- Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Wisconsin Local Health Department Survey 2003-2004. 2005.
- Milwaukee Health Department. Public Health Report by Aldermanic District. October 18, 2005.
- Federal Investigation Bureau. 2005.
- Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Report, 2005 data. Office of Program Evaluation and Planning. Division of Children and Family Services.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Factbook, U.S. Department of Justice. 1998
- Wisconsin Domestic Abuse Incident Report for 2001, Office of Crime Victim Services
- WCADV, 2000 Domestic Homicide Report
- Wisconsin Domestic Abuse Incident Report for 2005, Office of Crime Victim Services
- Blair, K., & Liegel, J. Death: Leading Causes for 1995-2005, City of Milwaukee. June 2007. Milwaukee Health Department.
- Department of Health and Human Services. Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health.
- Wisconsin STD program. 2004
- Bureau of Health Information and Policy, Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Wisconsin Family Health Survey: City of Milwaukee. 2005.
- Coley, B., Hollander, G. & Seal, D. Health Disparities Among LBGT Populations In Wisconsin: A Summary Report of Needs. Diverse and Resilient & Center for AIDS Intervention and Research. 2006.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Survnet. Data 2000-2006. accessed on the Milwaukee Health Department website
- Department of Workforce Development. Wisconsin Shares Subsidy Porgram. Monthly Statistics. Accessed on
2007. Graph only
- Pawasarat, J. & Quinn, L.M., Addressing Barriers to Employment: Increasing Child Care Rates and the Rate Setting Process Under the Wisconsin Shares Program. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institutes. 2002.
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth Behavior Risk Survey.
- Glaze LE. & James DJ, Mental health problems of prison and jail inmates. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. September 2006.
- United Way of Greater Milwaukee. “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty.” 2008.
- Pawasarat, J. & Quinn, L. Racial Integration in Urban America: A Block Level Analysis of African American and White Housing Patterns. Employment and Training Institute. School of Continuing Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 2002, revised January 2003.
- Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Bureau of Health Information and Policy, Division of Public Health. Wisconsin 2001-2005.
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services.Framework for Action to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes. January 2009-01-16
- Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission Interim Progress Report. May 2007.
- Citylights. Selected health adolescent disparities data. 2007:16(2):3-14.
40. Milwaukee Fire Department. Life Threatening Penetrating Trauma Patients Transported by ALS Units. 2000-2005.
41. Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Educational Fund (WAVE). WAVE Report. Fall 2008: Volume 5, Issue 2.
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