BABY BASICS

The Baby Basics Training addresses the "elephant in the room" that everyone has been trying to ignore -- our moms can't read (or understand what they are reading) and we don't know what to do about it. We work with each site to mix and match training modules so that they meet each program's needs.

Health literacy means:

• Applying the latest research to your practice by using Baby Basics books.
• Engaging Baby Basics materials in the exam room.
• Using Baby Basics materials with home visits and for health education.
• Employing health literacy strategies for communicating with low-literate patients.
• Promoting principles of adult literacy and English as a Second Language education as applied to prenatal education in a Baby Basics Program.
• Using the Baby Basics Curriculum in groups or one-on-one.
• Building a Baby Basics Community -- a partnership for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies. 

The Baby Basics Moms Club Curriculum

This prenatal health literacy curriculum in a box gives educators a comprehensive and fun way to teach the health information necessary for most state mandated Medicaid prenatal guidelines, and at the same time, teaches health literacy skills (and English as a Second Language skills) to underserved families. The curriculum, created in partnership with the Literacy Assistance Center, can be used to foster supportive groups, or can be used one-on-one and integrated into other case management and home visitation curricula. It also includes reproducible activity sheets.

Note: The curricula are only available to programs that receive Baby Basics Training.

See a Baby Basics Mom's Club Sample Curriculum Card and Worksheet