FLOURISH regularly provides updates on our progress and the work our partners are doing to reduce infant mortality in St. Louis. To receive new updates by email, sign up for our newsletter.
FLOURISH continues to address transportation barriers for pregnant women and families. In our region, more than 20 percent of households don’t own a car, and more than one-third of our residents do not live near a public transit stop. Unreliable transportation leads to a lack of regular medical care and missed appointments – which can… Read More
FLOURISH recently participated in the 2019 Code With A Cause, a 48-hour hackathon event that benefits chosen nonprofit organizations in the Greater St. Louis region. Our Infant Health Action Team presented a need for an accessible, user-friendly inventory tool for our portable crib provider network. This tool would enable the network to better connect families in need with cribs and safe sleep education. Unsafe sleep practices are the leading cause of sudden infant deaths. St. Louis’ rates are three times… Read More
FLOURISH 2.0 is in the next phase of our initiative aimed at bringing us closer to achieving our North Star – zero racial disparities in infant mortality by 2033. Over the last two years, it became clear that every barrier we explored negatively impacted Black families more than White families. Black babies are dying three… Read More
Generate Health (FLOURISH’s backbone organization) has been selected by Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to participate in a new initiative called CIC-START (Community Impact Contracts – Strategic, Timely, Actionable, Replicable, Targeted). The initiative helps public health initiatives working to reduce health disparities operate more effectively… Read More
Teen Pregnancy and Prevention Partnership (TPPP), a FLOURISH St. Louis partner, has introduced a comprehensive new report that illustrates the current sexual health crisis in our region. TPPP collated a wide range of local, national and international public health data to highlight disparate outcomes in teen pregnancy, infant mortality, STIs, and HIV rates. Looking at… Read More
The City of St. Louis, together with Forward Through Ferguson and United Way of Greater St. Louis, published its Equity Indicators report. This four-year effort by The Ferguson Commission conducts a “thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and economic conditions that impede progress, equality and safety in the St. Louis region,” according to… Read More
When FLOURISH St. Louis launched our action teams two years ago, our goal was to bring together experts and community members to reduce infant mortality in the St. Louis region. We’ve made progress in several of these areas, such as safe sleep and improving transportation access, but realized that one fundamental issue needed to be… Read More
In our work to reduce infant mortality, we found the families at greatest risk are those who have less access to resources, like transportation, education, housing, health care, jobs and affordable food. Racial disparities are at the core of these issues. To learn more, watch the video.… Read More
Did you know that 8 out of 10 sleep-related deaths are due to unsafe sleep conditions? These deaths could be prevented – which is why building awareness and understanding of safe sleep practices is so important. We’ve created the FLOURISH Safe Sleep Recognition program to recognize those hospitals, nonprofits and other organizations who are promoting… Read More
FLOURISH has been exploring ways to improve our community’s access to important resources, like transportation and prenatal care. Now, we are changing how we work to put the community at the center. We want the community to decide how we will address issues families face in having a healthy pregnancy and baby – so Black… Read More
