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Fall Meeting 2013
October 15-17
Washington, DC |
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MEMBER
ORGANIZATIONS
ACDI/VOCA
ADRA
Africare
Aga Khan Foundation
AME-SADA
American Friends of
Guinea
American Red Cross
American Refugee
Committee
AMREF
CARE
Catholic Medical
Mission Board
Catholic Relief
Services
ChildFund
International
Concern Worldwide
Counterpart
International
Curamericas Global Episcopal Relief and
Development
Food For the Hungry
Freedom From
Hunger
Future Generations
Global Health Action
GOAL
Haitian Health
Foundation
Handicap
International
Health Alliance
International
Health and
Development
International
HealthRight
International
Helen Keller
International
Hesperian Health
Guides
IMA World Health
Institute for
OneWorld Health
International Medical
Corps
International Relief
and Development
International Rescue
Committee
International Youth
Foundation
La Leche League
International
MCDI
Medical Teams
International
Mercy Corps
Operation Smile
Partners for
Development
PATH
Pathfinder
International
Plan International
USA
Population Services
International
PCI
Project C.U.R.E
Project HOPE
Relief International
Salvation Army
World Service Office
Samaritan's Purse
Save the Children
WellShare
International
White Ribbon Alliance
for Safe Motherhood
World Concern
Development
Organization
World Lung
Foundation
World Relief
World Renew
World Vision
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ASSOCIATE
ORGANIZATIONS American College of
Nurse-Midwives
Christian Connections
for International
Health Development
Finance International, Inc
Edesia FHI360 Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) The Grandmother
Project
Institute for
Reproductive Health
ICF International
International Union
Against
Tuberculosis &
Lung Disease IntraHealth International Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School
of Public Health-
Dept. of
International Health JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc Kissito Healthcare International Liverpool Associates
in Tropical Health
Loma Linda
University School of
Public Health- Dept. of Global Health Marie Stopes International Medair Planet Aid University Research
Co., LLC
Women's Refugee
Commission
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INDIVIDUAL
ASSOCIATES
William Brady
Amelia Brandt
Jean Capps
Loretta Dostal
Kayt Erdahl
Carrie Foti
Paul Freeman
Devasena
Gnanashanmugam
Ruth Hope
Bonnie Kittle
Grace Kreulen
Sue Leonard
Karen McClure
Judiann McNulty
Kenneth Muko
Leonora Nyawata
Donna Sillan
David Shanklin
Doreen Weatherby
Sandy Wilcox
Anne Wilson
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CORE Group Practitioner Academy Learning Trip 2014
Comprehensive Rural Health Project
Jamkhed, India
February 4 - 12, 2014
Join CORE Group for its second Practitioner Academy Learning Trip. Participants will visit the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), founded by Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole in Jamkhed, India. CRHIP has been working among the rural poor and marginalized for more than 40 years. By partnering with village communities and expanding on local knowledge and resources, the project aims to effectively meet the immediate and long-term needs of these groups.
Participants will visit Jamkhed communities with peers to dialogue and learn about transformative strategies for improving health of communities, especially women and children. The visit will increase participants' understanding of design, implementation, and assessment of community health approached: comprehensive integrated services, village health workers functionality, community group development, gender and equity, impact, and sustainability.
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CORE Group Fall Meeting 2013 SAVE THE DATE October 15-17, 2013
FHI 360
Washington, DC
Please save the date for CORE Group's Fall Meeting 2013 on October 15-17, 2013 in Washington, DC. Planning has begun and partners have contributed some exciting ideas. Suggestions and possibilities include a focus on social accountability and advocacy to end preventable maternal, newborn, and child deaths.
Through concurrent and plenary discussion and sessions, partners have suggested focusing on accountability at global, national, district and community levels to increase the pace at which key child survival interventions reach the most underserved. In line with the theme, desired topics also include iCCM and essential newborn care, community health program learning from recent reviews and analysis of lessons from the USAID Child Survival and Health Grants Program and the Maternal Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP).
Building on previous years' learning, special emphasis will be made to explore best practices related to addressing key determinants of health and well-being of children, especially in the thousand days period of conception to age two, and examining issues through a gender and equity lens.
Please visit the CORE Group website for updates.
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Sponsor CORE Group Fall Meeting 2013
CORE Group's Fall Meeting of our Community Health Network brings together our 70+ Member and Associate Organizations, and the extended global health community, to network, collaborate, build momentum, address gaps, and foster program learning. By becoming an event sponsor, you'll showcase your organization and its work to donors, advocates, academics, as well as to our Members and Associates-leading world health organizations, collectively working in over 180 countries and reaching 720 million people every year.
There are five different sponsorship levels with varying benefits for each, including:
Marketplace- $500 Reception- minimum $1000Bronze- $1,500Silver- $3,000Gold- $5,000Please click here to learn more about the benefits for each sponsorship level.
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CHW Principles of Practice CORE Group's Community Child Health Working Group, in collaboration with World Vision International, have created the CHW Principles of Practice: Guiding Principles for non-governmental organizations and their partners for coordinated national scale-up of community health worker programs. The document builds on the experience, knowledge and best practices of CORE Group's Community Health Network including those organizations that have worked the CHW-AIM tool, and reflects comments received during the CORE Group Community Health Network's 2013 spring meeting. The document also reflects principles being developed by the Global Health Workforce Alliance for countries.The Principles of Practice outlined in this document are intended as a framework for advocacy, programming and partnership between implementing NGOs, government and donor agencies working with key CHW cadres in countries for which rapid and urgent scale-up of CHW program is a priority. They aim to guide NGOs to work with existing health structures through strong, long-term partnerships. They address CHW program issues such as competitive and duplicative working strategies, diverse incentives, parallel services, and diversity in supervision and reporting, among others.We want to hear your feedback on the document. Please send your comments and suggestions to Karen LeBan at kleban@coregroupdc.org by July 30th.
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Pediatric Tuberculosis: Shining a Light on a Hidden Epidemic Globally Tuberculosis is on the rise. Among the very young, TB is a devastating illness. Nearly a half a million children under 15 years of age were infected in 2011, according to WHO's 2012 Global Tuberculosis Report. Because of late or no diagnosis or improper treatment, many children die; WHO estimates 64,000 deaths among HIV-negative children in 2011. Other children suffer from drug-resistant TB or multi-drug resistant TB, vicious strains that develop when patients fail to complete the six-monthtreatment regimen. CORE Group hired writer, Justine Ickes, to highlight what CORE Group Members and Associates are doing to address Pediatric TB. Check out Pediatric TB: Shining a Light on a Hidden Epidemic to learn more.
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CORE Group Advancing Newborn Health At CORE Groups Spring Meeting, Lily Kak, Senior Advisor, Global Partnerships and Newborn Health, USAID presented the highlights of the evolving Global Newborn Action Plan and participants were encouraged to reflect and comment on these strategic shifts. Three game-changing actions were identified: 1) Increase birth notification, 2) Increase home-based postnatal care coverage and Change social norms about newborn death, and NGO and Private Sector Partnerships were considered important for mobilizing and advancing these efforts. This Spring, CORE Group also conducted an online survey of its 59 Member and 16 Associate Organizations on their newborn health activities, assets and needs to better facilitate program learning, collaboration and scale up. A summary report and presentation includes a quick overview of the responses from a total of 24 different organizations. In April 2013, preliminary findings were presented at the Global Newborn Health Conference in South Africa and at CORE Group's Spring Meeting by CORE Group's SMRH Working Group Co-Chair Carolyn Kruger of PCI.
In June, CORE Group's Community Child Health Working Group Co-Chair, Alfonso Rosales of World Vision, also presented the findings at the Latin American and Caribbean Neonatal Alliance meeting in El Salvador. During this and the next fiscal year, the Alliance focuses on four major objectives: 1) policy and advocacy, 2) promotion and support of national newborn alliances, 3) knowledge management via a regional website and annual technical meetings on Helping Babies Breathe and the Kangaroo Mother Care Method, and 4) harmonization of newborn indicators.
For more Newborn Resources, please visit our website at:
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Taking Care of Baby at Home After Birth:
What Families Need to Do
CORE Group, in collaboration with Save the Children, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and MCHIP, developed the Taking Care of Baby at Home After Birth: What Families Need to Do flipbook. The flipbook contains key messages that pregnant women and their families need in order to plan care of an infant at home right after birth. It focuses on essential actions families can take both to prevent newborn death and illness and to promote healthy newborn development. The flipbook has been translated in Kiswahili, Kalenjin, and French.
Please click here to learn more and view each adaptation, including a case study on local adapation.
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CORE Group is Hiring!
The Senior Knowledge Management Specialist will be responsible for managing and updating the TOPS knowledge management strategy which seeks to facilitate, through multiple venues, mechanisms, and media, inter-institutional and field driven processes to share knowledge, identify promising practices and fill identified capacity gaps.
Communications AssociateThe Communications Associate will assist CORE Group and the TOPS / Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network with all communications related projects and tasks, including but not limited to: developing content for websites and promotional materials, communicating via e-newsletters and all social media outlets, and providing logistical and communications support for CORE Group and TOPS activities. |
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Make the Most of Your Membership
and the Community Health Network!
As a CORE Group Member or Associate, you and your colleagues have a variety of benefits at your fingertips. Please help us spread the power of learning and sharing with your organization by getting your colleagues involved and completing the following checklist for 2013:
- Join CORE Group on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to get the latest Community Health updates and event announcements.
- Build momentum or capacity for an area of interest by taking a lead on a Spring or Fall Meeting session.
- Become and Event Sponsor or Table Sponsor at the Spring Meeting.
- Ask your colleagues to join a Working Group or sign up for a listserv or the e-newsletter.
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DONATE now to contribute to CORE Group's mission of advancing community health worldwide.
CORE Group is a proud member of the Combined Federal Campaign. CFC # 81108 Join CORE Group on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, & YouTube for news, updates, and helpful links to many tools and resources.
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CORE Group fosters collaborative action and learning to improve and expand community-focused public health practices. Established in 1997 in Washington, DC, CORE Group is an independent 501(c)3 organization, and home to the Community Health Network, which brings together CORE Group member organizations, scholars, advocates, and donors to support the health of underserved mothers, children, and communities around the world.
Visit us at www.coregroup.org. For inquiries, contact the CORE Group: contact@coregroupdc.org
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