The Hawai‘i Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative (HMIHC) fulfills the work of Early Childhood Action Strategy Team 1. HMIHC is working to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, while advancing health equity and reproductive justice, by enhancing systems and support for Hawaiʻi’s families and communities.
Efforts include:
Improve systems of care and support for perinatal people with substance use disorder and their infants
Increase access to contraception and promote reproductive life planning
Promote and support breastfeeding
Improve quality of care and community resources and supports for perinatal people
Improve communication on partners’ policy efforts focused on disparities related to maternal, infant, sexual and reproductive health
-
Bliss Kaneshiro, MD, MPH, FACOG, University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine
Chevelle Davis, Hawaiʻi Children's Action Network
Krista Olson, LATCH (Lactation Access Transforming Communities in Hawaiʻi)
-
Monthly, 2nd Tuesdays,
10:00 am – 12:00 pm -
Team 1 Theory of Change
(Last updated 2022) -
Workgroups:
Perinatal Substance Use Workgroup
Pre/Inter-Conception Workgroup
Breastfeeding Workgroup
Maternal Health & Perinatal Care Workgroup
Strategy & Research Workgroup
Makua Allies
Peer Support for Perinatal Substance Use Disorder (PSUD)
The Makua Allies peer-support program focuses on keeping new mothers who are healing from substance use together with their infants.
Midwifery Integrated
Home Visitation Program
The MI-Home Program provides family planning, prenatal, postpartum, lactation care in a person’s home, shelter, safe space, or via telemedicine.
Hawai`i LATCH (Lactation Access Transforming Communities)
Improved access to lactation consultation reduces inequities in health care access and improves outcomes for children and families
Learn more about the other Core Teams
