Partners With A Role to Play

• CHIP Advisory Council members and organizations
• YWCA-Asheville
• Project Nurturing Asheville and area Families (NAF) – Mount Zion Community Development
• Asheville Buncombe Institute for Parity Achievement (ABIPA)
• Sistas Caring for Sistas (SC4S)
• MAHEC
• Buncombe County Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) services
• BC Care Management & Nurse-Family Partnership
• Buncombe County Schools
• Asheville City Schools
• Buncombe County Partnership for Children
• Perinatal Emotional Support Network 

The overall approach used was a modified Results-Based Accountability process. A community input process was facilitated using the RBA Whole Distance Exercise framework with multiple events held in partnership with community providers to listen to community voices. These input sessions included over 75 individuals including those with lived experience, health care providers, social service agencies, advocacy  organizations and local non-profits. The professionals participating included those working in the health field as well as those working to address many of the social and economic factors that impact health.

The following actions have been identified by our CHIP Advisory and Leadership Team and community members as ideas for what can work for our community to make a difference on Birth Equity in Buncombe County.

Actions and Approaches Identified by Our Partners 

These are actions and approaches that our partners think can make a difference:

• Providing services that are culturally humble and trauma-informed
• Addressing root causes of poverty
• Creating health systems that are affordable 

What is Currently Working in Our Community 

These are actions and approaches that are currently in place in our community to make a difference:

• Home visitation and case manager programs
• Collaboration amongst organizations to broaden impact 

Healthy People 2030 Evidence-Based Practices: "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Grand Rounds: Public Health Strategies to Prevent Preterm Birth"

Strategies that prevent preterm birth and potential complications"

• Increase women and birthing people's access to preconception care services.
• Identify women and birthing people at risk for preterm delivery and provide access to effective preventive treatments.
• Discourage deliveries that aren't medically necessary, especially before 39 weeks.

Shapiro-Mendoza, C. K. (2016). CDC grand rounds: public health strategies to prevent preterm birth. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 65.