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Feature Articles:
Maternidad
La Luz: A Border Birth Center and Midwifery School
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
Maternidad La Luz was founded in 1987 by Deborah Kaley
with dual intentions: to provide excellent, low-cost midwifery
care to the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez community and to train
midwives. According to Kaley these two goals work very well together.
Women that use Maternidad La Luz receive prenatal care,
lab work, classes, birth services and more for a low price that
is subsidized by the tuition that midwifery students pay. In
turn, students do class work and gain the experience they need
to become certified midwives. On a yearly basis, Maternidad La
Luz (MLL) assists with 500 births and trains 20 midwives. Since
1987, 7,500 babies have been born at the center and more than
400 midwives have been trained there. MLL is a licensed birth
center and is a nationally accredited program.
Success
by Six: Helping Kids by Helping Families
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
Success By Six is a United Way project
aimed at making sure that children are healthy from birth and
ready to enter school at age six. As opposed to some organizations
that provide aid solely to children, Success By Six "looks
at the whole, family, not just one child," according
to Deborah Salas, Success By Six program director for Doña
Ana County, New Mexico.
The
El Paso Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Children in Danger
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
A youth risk behavior survey conducted among 7th and 8th
graders from El Paso County looks at tobacco, alcohol and illegal
drug use, weight, body image and exercise issues, television
viewing habits and the use of safety devices like seat belts
and bike helmets. The study found many threats to the health
and safety of city youth.
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