public health

What’s your story?

Do you have a story you’d like to share about the importance of prenatal care? Have you been involved in a successful program and want to share your story? Do you belong to an organization in Shelby County that could benefit others to ensure their baby is healthy? We are looking for personal stories for the IMRI blog, and we’d like to feature you as a guest blogger! Send an email to ShelbycountyIMRI@gmail.com and someone from our team will be in contact with you.

Great News! There’s an App for That!

Sherry Bates, B.S., MBA

Infant Mortality Reduction Initiative Coordinator

Shelby County Health Department

How convenient would it be to have information right at your fingertips?!  In an effort to join the ever-growing world of technology, The Shelby County Health Department created the FREE B4BabyLife mobile app to encourage healthy pregnancies and healthy families as well as to help prevent infant mortality.

BONUS BLOG: Violence as a Public Health Issue

Violence as a Public Health Issue

Shelby County Health Department Joins Forces to Fight the Real Monster under the Bed

By: Angela P. Moore

Community Health Planner, Shelby County Health Department

Like many children, you may have been afraid of the “monster” under the bed. Your parents would make you look under the bed to find that nothing was there and that would ease your fears so you could fall soundly asleep.

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Benefits of Social Support of Breastfeeding

Shine Bright like a BF STAR: Benefits of Social Support of Breastfeeding

By: Shenika Holmes, Public Health Intern (BF STARS)

Shelby County Health Department

Hi, my name is Shenika Holmes, and I am a proud supporter of breastfeeding!

How many children do I have? Zero.

Am I expecting? No.

Early Childhood is the Most Critical and Vulnerable Time

Sandra Allen, Director

Le Bonheur Center for Children and Parents

Early Success Coalition

“Early childhood is both the most critical and the most vulnerable time in any child’s development. In the first few years, the tone for intellectual, emotional and moral growth is set. We cannot fail children in these early years” (Brazelton & Greenspan, 2000, p. x)

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