Success Stories by Topic: Women

• Women's Intervention Network of Scioto County
  July 2009
  WIN offered a variety of services such as gynecological exams and Pap tests, mental health assessments and counseling, advocacy and referrals, referrals and payment for mammograms, transportation, child care during appointments, and women’s health education to women in Scioto County.
• Appalachian Violence Outreach Network (AVON)
  July 2009
  This project administered wellness classes and workshops to women in a rural, underserved area.
• Allendale Women's Health Project
  May 2009
  The goals of the Allendale Women’s Health Project were to increase the availability and accessibility of primary health care services to women, improve birth outcomes and reduce infant mortality in Allendale County, and to improve the over all health status of women living in the county.
• Improving Access, Outcomes and Cost for Women's and Children's Health Services
  May 2009
  The project succeeded in establishing labor and delivery services at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
• Wisconsin Rural Women's Initiative
  January 2009
  Wisconsin Rural Women’s Initiative has received a $10,000 grant from the Helen Bader Foundation to provide programs designed to meet the needs of isolated farm and rural women.
• Mobile Unit Brings Cancer Screenings to Native American Women
  November 2008
  Describes how the Mobile Women's Health Unit works to meet the needs of Native American women living in rural areas.
• Mobile Mammography Helping Rural Texas Community to Access Screening for Ealry Detetction
  September 2008
  The Center for Health Evaluation, Education & Resources (CHEER) a community based nonprofit in Brackettville, TX has partnered with Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio to bring their mobile mammography unit to the rural community and help prevent cancer.
• Prenatal Services to Latino Women
  June 2008
  The Coastal Plain Rural Health Network developed a partnership with the Eastern Carolina Community Development Corporation (CDC) to provide perinatal services in Spanish to the Latino patients.
• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
  October 2007
  The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• SPARC Project Saves Women's Lives- Connecticut
  June 2007
  SPARC, a nonprofit health organization, began a program to administer flu shots and at the same time helped women find a mammogram provider to prevent cancer.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• Womens Health Project
  January 2007
  The overall goal of the program is to foster increased capacity and resources to assure rural health delivery of quality programming for women's health, including family planning and risk reduction services in three counties in north central Minnesota.
• Building Healthy Families Project
  January 2007
  The Building Healthy Families project is designed to meet the unique cultural, social, and linguistic needs of pregnant Hispanic women living in Marshall County.
• Best Babies
  January 2007
  Best Babies will offer a comprehensive, integrated approach to perinatal care for women in these counties who are at high risk for adverse birth outcomes including maternal or infant mortality, low birth weight, very low birth weight, or other medical or developmental problems.
• Project for Perinatal and Postpartum Depression Detection
  January 2007
  This project will increase community awareness about perinatal depression, improve access to mental health screenings for childbearing women, and provide assessments and linkages to appropriate treatment for women with symptoms of depression.
• La Red Health Center Prenatal Services Program
  January 2007
  La Red Health Center (LRHC) expanded an existing program to offer prenatal and labor/delivery services to underserved and vulnerable pregnant women in Sussex County, Delaware.
• Rural Health Outreach Program for Children (Mena, Arkansas)
  July 2005
  Nine local organizations that offered different types of health and social services agreed to create a consortium to share responsibility for providing a range of services to young parents and expectant mothers.
• Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Consortium partner members designed the Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program to expand and enhance an established mobile primary clinic through patient education, increased trips per month, and increased patient visits per trip through a dial-a-ride program.
• Kokua Program
  July 2005
  The primary objectives of this consortium of six area health service providers, agencies, and universities were to reach and educate local women on breast and cervical cancer, and provide health screenings using culturally appropriate methods that reduce fear and anxiety.
• Tri-County Health Connections Network
  July 2005
  This project was a community-based initiative to enhance prevention and early intervention services for pregnant and postpartum women, their infants, and families living in rural central Iowa.
• Warrior Wellness Center
  July 2005
  To address the serious issue of teen pregnancy in Jefferson County, a network was formed to establish an effective mechanism for proactive pregnancy prevention and health promotion outreach for the county's rural adolescents.