Text4Baby Program—a free mobile information service

Text4Baby is a free mobile information service designed to promote healthy birth and child outcomes (up to the child’s first birthday) among underserved populations via weekly text messages. An educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), Text4baby will help women have safe and healthy pregnancies and their children a great start by providing them with the health information they need prenatally through their child’s first year of life. Text4Baby is made possible through a broad, public-private partnership. Founding partners include National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, Voxiva, CTIA – The Wireless Foundation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Medical Home Information for Families
the National Center for Medical Home Implementation at AAP works to ensure that all children and youth, including those with special health care need, have the service and support necessary for full community inclusion through medical homes. At www.medicalhomeinfo.org families can find valuable tools about the medical home concept, including tips on how to find a pediatrician, brochures on how to build a medical home partnership, and many other useful topics. Resource tools for families available at this site include:

• Care Notebook
• Communication Tips
• Family to Family Health Information
• Future & Estate Planning
• Insurance Information
• Internet Tips
• School Forms and Resources
• Transitions

For adolescents, the site provides resources on when/where to start maintaining a medical home, what to expect after high school, post secondary schooling, school to career, transition guides, and programs and resources.

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Healthy Children, AAP
AAP’s Parenting information is now available on line at  www.Healthychildren.org

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Dating Abuse Stops Here (DASH)
www.datingabusestopshere.com

The DASH website is a new resource for educating youth and their parents about the complex dynamics of teen dating violence. DASH provides life-saving information on how to recognize and respond to the early warning signs of unhealthy and unsafe dating relationships.