Reduce infant, child, and adolescent suffering and mortality in Port Salut, Haiti.

OBJECTIVE:  Engage and sustain the active participation of community groups and individuals in the design, planning, implementation, management, and evaluation of a Comprehensive Community Based Health System in Port Salut.

1. Really commit to the idea of participating with the community.
2. Meet regularly with government, local, and community politicians, and social, tribal, and religious leaders so as to develop relationships based on mutual respect where responsibilities, benefits, and costs are shared – leading to outcomes that benefit all partners.
3. Share knowledge and skills with the community at every opportunity.
4. When possible, hire Haitian professionals, paraprofessionals, and unskilled individuals living in Port Salut.
5. Establish village health committees, to gather and report data, facilitate health related activities, and support the Community Health Workers.
6. Encourage and assist in the establishment of mother’s groups to support the Community Health Worker and stand together in joint action against social and health issues.   

OBJECTIVE:   Design, plan, implement, manage, and evaluate a high quality Comprehensive Community Based Health System where no child is turned away for an inability to pay.

1. Develop, build, and operate Klinik Timoun Nou Yo to integrate and manage childhood illness, disease, and malnutrition.
2. Design, plan, implement, manage, and evaluate an Intensive Comprehensive Community Outreach Health Care Program for children ages 0 – 5 aimed at prevention, education, and referral.
3. Develop a comprehensive educational program including but not limited to the following:
   •Pre-natal care •Post-natal care •Nutrition •Breastfeeding
4. Ensure environmental sustainability through affordable means and technologies by outsourcing research and development of systems for affordable and nutritional food, potable water, and environmentally safe and cost effective waste management.

OBJECTIVE:  Utilize valid and reliable quantitative and qualitative research in program development and planning.

OBJECTIVE:  Monitor and evaluate program services to find out if we are achieving what we set out to do.

1. Create and utilize recording systems and make regular and annual assessments of progress.
2. Systematically review the various components of our health care project every three to five years.

OBJECTIVE:  Strengthen the ability of Port Salut’s only hospital, Hopital Communautaire de Reference, to provide more viable services so as to more positively impact the community.

1. Work with Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach of Springfield, Illinois, to upgrade and improve hospital equipment.
2. Exchange baseline health information.
3. Share effective models of health management.
4. Develop system of referral and follow up  between Hopital Communitaire de Reference and Klinik Timoun Nou Yo.

OBJECTIVE:  Serve as broker of cultural, social, medical, health, and environmental information between the communities of Port Salut and visiting medical, health, and environmental agencies, organizations, and individuals working in the Port Salut area.
 

1. Make known to the outside community through “advertisement” of Klinik Timoun Nou Yo and its Outreach Program, that there exists in the region an ever present and consistent program of comprehensive community based quality health care.
2. Seek out other agencies, organizations, and individuals working in the area to share resources and information, in an effort to avoid duplication of efforts.
3. Provide consultation and training to outside organization upon request in a number of areas, including but not limited to: health and environmental issues, cultural and demographic considerations, local contacts, etc.

Jeff and Michele Boston speaking

at a secondary school

Klinik compound overview

January 2010 census takers

Census taker recording weight

Michele recording census information

First Mobile medical team,

Port Salut,  May 2009

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