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From Data to Action: Advancing Youth Mental Health Practice in Spartanburg
Public Health Behavioral Health Expert Panelists Public Health Behavioral Health Expert Panelists

From Data to Action: Advancing Youth Mental Health Practice in Spartanburg

Strategic Spartanburg’s The State of Youth Mental and Behavioral Health report describes urgent disparities in youth mental health outcomes. Behavioral health experts Tom Barnet, Colin Bauer, Polly Edwards Pagett, and Dr. Lori Thornton discuss tangible strategies for advancing youth mental and behavioral health outcomes.

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The Power of Play
Education Dr. Catie Davis Education Dr. Catie Davis

The Power of Play

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate-Spartanburg allows children to play, grow their skills, and prepare for school, which in turn supports our community’s future leaders, thinkers, creators, and change-makers. Through play, we are reinforcing our community’s early childhood development efforts and helping prepare students for success in kindergarten and beyond.

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Maternal Mortality
Public Health JaLisa Jordan Public Health JaLisa Jordan

Maternal Mortality

Our community health workers in the AccessHealth program, and those strategically located in areas where the need was the greatest have now become change agents in reducing racial health disparities. This is equivalent to the individualized care and support that community doulas provide to women as they go through their pregnancy, labor, birth, and the most critical time frame for both mom and baby: postpartum.

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