Are You Ready?
First Time Motherhood/ New Parent Initiative
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Ready, Set, Plan! |
Are You Ready? Project Overview
Family Planning Resources (Be Smart. Be Ready.)
Becoming a Community Health Coach
Ready, Set Plan (community-based training)
Media Campaign
The Birds and Bees Text Line
Are You Ready? Project Overview
The New Parent Project focuses resources in six northeastern North Carolina counties (Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Nash and Northampton) for two years with the goal of engaging individuals and community groups to make positive lifestyle changes that contribute to having healthier families.
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NC Map of the 6 northeastern counties targeted - Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Nash and Northampton.
This project works through an interagency collaborative between the:
Are You Ready? project goals will be accomplished through:
- Community Health Coaches (trained through
faith-based and community-based organizations)
- A media campaign (radio and television)
- An information and referral telephone line
- Distribution of educational materials
- Healthcare provider training
Are You Ready? funding period: September 2008 through August 2010.
Funding to support and develop this project comes from Project HMMC10862 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act).
Grantee: N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Women’s Health Branch.
Take Part in this Community Effort!
Are You Ready?
Attention: Edgecombe, Gates, Hailfax, Hertford, Nash and Northampton counties!
We are reaching out to as many people as we can in our targeted communities with the messages: "Are you Ready?" "What's your plan?" What's your plan for your health, your future, your family, your finances, your education, your job and even a baby?
Reach Out — Become a Community Health Coach
Do you want to:
- Talk to men and women in your community about how to improve their health and how to stay healthy?
- Talk with people in your community about the importance of being healthy for themselves, their families and for the children they may have someday?
- Coach and motivate others to be proactive about their own health and habits, the health of their families and their community?
- Become a Community Health Coach?
What Community Health Coaches Do
Your role as a Community Health Coach would be to raise  awareness of health challenges and health resources in your community. As a Community Health Coach, you will play an active and important role in helping people in your community think about and develop a plan for their future and the future of their family.
It is easier than you think. As a Community Health Coach you do not need to be a "health and wellness expert!"
You will receive all the materials you need to be successful:
- Free training
- Free materials, resources and great incentives
- On-going support
The Community Health Coach trainings will be offered to people who live or work in Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Nash and Northampton counties. Training sessions are offered using Ready, Set, Plan!, a training program designed to reach community-based and faith-based organizations.
Which training is right for you?
- Community-based organizations will be trained on Ready, Set, Plan! as a Community Health Coach, you can provide this life changing information during counseling sessions, one-on-one with individual clients and in your regular work setting.
- Pastors and members of faith-based organizations will be trained on Ready, Set, Plan! also. As a Community Health Coach, you can provide this life changing information through Bible study classes, sermons, marriage counseling, youth ministries and men's and women's ministries.
Ready, Set, Plan!
Ready, Set, Plan! is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about family health in community-based and faith-based conversations. It combines important health information with engaging activities. It challenges the participants to apply the curriculum to their everyday lives. Ready, Set, Plan! aims to connect a host of community partners including: healthcare providers, community-based organizations, individuals, local activists and other small groups. Through these connections, families in northeastern North Carolina will be better equipped to begin planning a healthy family and a healthy future.
Ready, Set, Plan! is also referred to as RSP.
 Ready, Set, Plan! (RSP) focuses on general, emotional and reproductive health. Ready, Set, Plan! includes a RSP kit equipped with a Coach's Manual, a Tool Box with health resources to share and a Routes Flip Chart that can help guide conversations around "Are You Ready?" Do you have a plan to help create a healthier life?
Ready, Set, Plan! Routes
Ready, Set, Plan! takes three routes to a healthier life and a healthier family.
- Health and Wellness Route
- Emotional Health and Wellness Route
- Planning a Family Route
All of the routes share the same goal of bringing people together to talk about the importance of family health and family planning in community-based conversations. The routes help people make choices about how to have a healthy life and a healthy family.
All of the Routes ask the questions "Are You Ready?" and "What's Your Plan?" The "Are You Ready?" questions focus on choices people make that impact their health and the health of their families. The "What's Your Plan?" questions prompt people to make decisions on what they will do to be healthier.
Yes, I Am Ready!
Are You Ready? Media Campaign
WRSV Soul 92 Jams was on-hand live for the New Parent initiative kick-off in Rocky Mount, NC on July 16, 2009.
Media Theme: Plan a healthy life, plan a healthy family.
These ads are designed to help young people think about planning their family and the consequences of an unintended pregnancy.
Television: The second phase of the media campaign will launch in March 2010. The ads will air on NBC-17, ABC-11 and Fox 50 and a variety of cable channels including BET, MTV, VH-1, Lifetime, ESPN and Nickelodeon.
Community Radio: Our radio partners include WPWZ, Power 95.5, WBOB, 107.3, The Promise, WFXC/ WFXK, Foxy 107/ 104 and WQDR 94.7.
Radio personality “B-Rabbit” from WRSV interviews Amy Doughtie a Health Educator with the Nash County Health Department.
The New Parent initiative kicked off with a live radio remote broadcast on WRSV Soul 92 Jams. The event was held at the Down East Partnership for Children in Rocky Mount on July 16.
You may also preview media on our Multimedia Page.
The Birds and Bees Text Line
Do you have questions about sex? Do you need answers now? The  Birds and Bees Text Line run by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina can help. Visit the link above to find out how it works.
Other Links
North Carolina
CARE - LINE
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Contact the CARE-LINE
7 AM - 11 PM/ 7 days a week
including holidays
1-800-662-7030 (English/ Spanish)
1-877-452-2514 (TTY)
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Last updated: April 2010 |
