Advancing Preconception Health in Communities: Launching a Consumer Preconception Health Campaign

The Office of Minority Health Resource Center hosts a webinar to share best practices and key learning from teaming up with organizations nationwide to launch the first national preconception health resource and campaign and introduce the Show Your Love Ambassador Program.

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Jacqueline Turcu, California Baptist University

1. Many people don’t plan pregnancy due to their access, or lack thereof, to annual wellness visits and education.
2. Prominent education that needs to be distributed include avoiding alcohol if the women is trying to get pregnant and to avoid getting pregnant if exposed to the Zika Virus.
3. The PCHHC initiative launched Show Your Love, designed to improve the health of young men and women.
4. Share Your Love has become an organization that easily creates a platform for community building and sharing healthy behaviors and life choices in their communities.
5. This organization is based on “story-theory” in which members are encouraged to tell their stories to better reach their perspective audience.

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Elizabeth Guerino - California Baptist University
1) PCHHC's Communications Flow: equip providers, engage with 3rd party advocacy organizations, and empower consumers
2) one of the struggles and challenges include access to care.
3) The Show Your Love website has a toolkit to facilitate conversations between consumers and their doctors
4) The campaign plans to partner with important influencers to conduct tweet chats
5) Brand Ambassadors get to partner with Show Your Love by engaging their social following

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Dolly Pham
5 facts from the video:
1) Communication Flows: Equip, Engage, Empower.
2) Show Your Love: created on Valentine's Day 2013; Consumer Workgroup of PCHHC Initiative launched SYL, a national campaign designed to improve the health of young men and women to promote optimal preconception health and reproductive life planning.
3) National PCHHC Initiative: a national public-private partnership of over 70 organizations working to advance preconception health and reproductive life planning.
4) Objectives: Diversify, Educate, Elevate, Activate, Standardize
5) PCHHC Workgroups Spring Priorities: Consumer, Clinical, Public Health, Policy & Finance, Surveillance & Data, Leadership Team.

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Sofia Ayala, California Baptist University
1. Show your love, a national campaign designed to improve the health of young men and women to promote optimal preconception health and reproductive life planning.
2. Preconception health can defined as is exercising, having a healthy diet, taking care of yourself, managing health conditions. There are various of definitions to preconception health.
3. There are various of challenges such as not everyone is going to understand the message, different types of audiences, some people do not plan a pregnancy, and limited resources.
4. Women who want to become pregnant should stop drinking alcohol.
5. Build an online community, raise awareness of optimal health, practical/ personalized resources.

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Genesis Rivera, California Baptist University
1. The consumer workgroup of The National Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHC) Initiative launched Show Your Love (SYL), a national campaign designed to improve the health of young men and women to promote optimal preconception health and reproductive life planning in February of 2013.
2. The CDC released recommendations for women to stop consuming alcohol if attempting to reproduce.
3. An objective of the PCHHC was to build a consumer website to share realistic goals, teach about health/wellness, and encourage consumers to communicate with their healthcare providers.
4. The social media hashtag for the campaign is “#ShowYourLoveToday” was established to help share the campaign and reach the technological savvy audience.
5. The objective of building an online community enables easily shareable contect to encourage others to join the movement.

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Genesis Rivera, California Baptist University
1. The consumer workgroup of The National Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHC) Initiative launched Show Your Love (SYL), a national campaign designed to improve the health of young men and women to promote optimal preconception health and reproductive life planning in February of 2013.
2. The CDC released recommendations for women to stop consuming alcohol if attempting to reproduce.
3. An objective of the PCHHC was to build a consumer website to share realistic goals, teach about health/wellness, and encourage consumers to communicate with their healthcare providers.
4. The social media hashtag for the campaign is “@” was established to help share the campaign and reach the technological savvy audience.
5. The objective of building an online community enables easily shareable contect to encourage others to join the movement.