You may have noticed FLOURISH St. Louis looks a bit different these days. In September, we launched our new website, which was designed to reflect how much we have evolved over the past few years. When we launched our action teams almost 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 addressed more prominently – the issue of racial inequity.
Through 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 times more often than White babies, and our solutions must focus on closing this gap. To do this, we need to refocus our work so Black community members are at the core. Restructuring our website and openly talking about racial disparities are just a few of the ways FLOURISH is evolving to better address infant mortality, so we can achieve zero racial disparities in infant mortality by 2033.
Check out the new website at flourishstlouis.org to learn about our progress so far, and how we’re continuing to work to reduce infant mortality in St. Louis.
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