Jindal Stops Program For At-Risk 1st Time Moms

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Another program Jindal is cutting for Louisiana, effective February 1...

The health department is eliminating the portion of the program that offers at-home visits to low-income women who are pregnant with their first child. Registered nurses visit the women early in their pregnancy and until their children's second birthday, offering advice on preventive health care, diet and nutrition, smoking cessation and other child developmental issues.

http://www.thetowntalk.com/viewart/20130129/NEWS01/301290310/Louisiana-health-care-cuts-begin-Friday

It teaches life-skills to young, at-risk moms to make them better parents and make them better able to care for their children. The median age of the mother is 19 years of age; 92% are unmarried; 59% of the moms are African American, while 34% are Non-Hispanic Whites. At the end of the program, 17% had a reduction in smoking during pregnancy, there is a 14% increase in workforce participation and 90% of 24 month olds are fully immunized!


THIS PROGRAM HAS RECEIVED NATIONAL RECOGNITION FROM:

The Washington State Institute for Public Policy,
The RAND Corporation and The Brookings
Institution have concluded that investments
in Nurse-Family Partnership lead to significant
returns to society and government, giving
taxpayers a $2.88-5.70 return per dollar
invested in the program.

and

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
names Nurse-Family Partnership in the Journal
of the American Medical Association as the most
rigorously evaluated program that promotes
safe, stable, and nurturing relationships
and environments — which can improve
children’s health over a lifetime and reduce the
health disparities between advantaged and
disadvantaged children.

http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/assets/PDF/Communities/State-profiles/LA_State_Profile.aspx

http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/locations/Louisiana

Children are our future! You would think a Governor would be most concerned about the children of his state! And then, Jindal refuses to participate in the Affordable Care Act AKA Obamacare. What is going to happen to these children? He was going to stop Medicaid funding for hospice care and suddenly reversed himself last week when people started an uproar.

Tell Bobby Jindal NO! this is NOT acceptable! To Stop being the stupid party!
The link to his email form is at http://www.gov.la.gov/index.cfm?md=form&tmp=email_governor