Register Now for the Conceptional Health - Important Conference (CHIC) on July 17-18 at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. This conference will focus on the importance of pre and interconception health. It is sponsored by the Enterprise Community Healthy Start Program and the Augusta Regional Maternal and Infant Care Program. For more information visit www.georgiahealth.edu/chic. 

Check out the NEW Preconception Health website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Click here to view. This site was developed in consultation with the national Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative.  Read it now and check back soon to use a new resource center (with brochures, fact sheets, etc) which will be added in the near future.

Information for health care providers on preconception health, including free CEUs, can be found at www.beforeandbeyond.org. The 3rd National Summit on Preconception Health was held June 12-14, 2011 in Tampa, FL. All of the recorded sessions and powerpoint presentations are available here now.

Thank you to Carol Brady and Mario Drummonds who led a wonderful webinar on Moving the Life Course Theory into MCH Practice on February 9, 2012. To view their slides click here. For additional resources on the life course approach check out the resources section of our website.

The Women's Integrated Systems for Health (WISH) 7-part webinar series is now available online.To learn more about this project, click here. To view the presentations, go to Training and click on WISH. On-line self paced modules will be released this summer.

Do you have a program that you would like to share? Consider submitting it to the Association of Maternal and Child Health Program's Innovation Station. To learn more click here.

Sign up for the National Preconception Health electronic newsletter. It is free  - just click here.