The Women and Infant Health Program targets two priority areas in Wyoming: women/maternal health and infant health.
Below is our priority needs in each of these areas and our strategies to address these needs.
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Our Priority Needs
Prevent Maternal Mortality
- Postpartum visits
- Promote the importance of attending postpartum visits, and identify and implement evidence-based strategies to address barriers to postpartum visits.
- Maternal Mortality Review Committee
- Implement evidence-based strategies to improve maternal health outcomes to include implementation of cross-state Utah-Wyoming Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
- County Level Projects
- Offer funding opportunities for county level organization to implement community level projects to prevent maternal mortality.
Prevent Infant Mortality
- Safe Sleep Practices/Environments
- Promote importance of safe sleep practices; and identity and implement evidence-based activities to address barriers to safe sleep practices.
- County Level Projects
- Offer funding opportunities for county level organization to implement community level projects to prevent infant mortality.
how are we doing on addressing these needs?
Check out how we are doing on on these strategies and our priority needs by visiting the Wyoming MCH Title V National Outcome Measures (NOM) and National Performance Measures (NPM) Dashboard, the Wyoming Vital Statistics Services Trend Reports Dashboard, and the Wyoming Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Dashboard!
Program Contact
Kelly Belz, MPH
Women and Infant Health Program Manager
122 West 25th Street, 3rd Floor West
Cheyenne, WY 82002
Phone: 307-777-6921 / 800-438-5795
Email: mchinfo@wyo.gov