WC – Health Partners Meet – IEC
IEC 1: Preconception Care Brochure
The document emphasizes the importance of preconception care in improving maternal and child health outcomes. It highlights the challenges in implementing preconception care and showcases the opportunities KHPT is leveraging to strengthen awareness and access to preconception health services.
IEC 2: Early Childhood Care and Development Brochure
The brochure emphasizes the importance of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) and addresses barriers to achieving optimal outcomes. It highlights objectives such as designing and implementing innovative strategies to improve ECCD outcomes and developing an inter-sectoral convergence model for sustainable, village-level solutions. Additionally, it outlines KHPT’s approaches, and tailored interventions, to deliver essential ECCD components for better health outcomes
IEC 3: Eligible Couple (EC) Card
The Eligible Couple (EC) Card is a tool designed to guide eligible couples through their preconception journey while delivering essential health messages. It also records the health history of the couple, enabling the identification of conditions that may impact fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
IEC 4: JOTHE JOTHEYALI board game
“Jothe Jotheyali,” a board game used on EC Day, serves as an engaging tool to educate couples about their life journey together. It highlights potential pregnancy risks and promotes positive behavior changes through interactive learning.
IEC 5: JOTHE JOTHEYALI board game Instruction Guide
“Jothe Jotheyali,” a board game used on EC Day, is an engaging tool designed to educate couples about their shared life journey. It highlights potential pregnancy risks and encourages positive behavior changes through interactive learning. The instruction guide outlines how to play the game and effectively engage eligible couples, ensuring they gain valuable insights throughout the process.
IEC 6: Eligible Couple (EC) Day SOP Brochure
EC Day is a scheduled event held at Ayushman Arogya Mandir or at their premises. Its purpose is to offer information on preconception care (PCC) to couples planning to have a child. This includes health, nutritional, and psychosocial risk factor screening, along with counseling to promote safe motherhood. The SOP details the preparation, implementation, and follow-up processes to ensure the event’s effectiveness and continuity of care.
IEC 7: Posters (Tips on Parenthood, EC card and EC Day & Nurturing Care Framework)
These posters highlight:
Tips on Parenthood: Practical guidance for achieving a healthy pregnancy outcome.
EC Day and EC Card Benefits: How EC Day supports couples with preconception care, and how the EC Card aids in tracking health history and planning.
Nurturing Care Framework: Key components—health, nutrition, safety, responsive caregiving, and early learning—essential for optimal child development.
IEC 8: Gender Posters
These posters aim to address societal misconceptions and promote awareness:
- The gender of a child is determined by the father’s biological factors, beyond anyone’s control. Blaming the mother is unjust and based on misinformation.
- Let’s create an informed society where women are respected and free from prejudice. Together, let’s ensure the safety, dignity, and well-being of women and children.
- Fetal sex determination is illegal under the Pre-Conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of sex selection) Act, 1994
- Contact the ‘Women and Child Protection Vigilance Committee’ at your Panchayat for assistance to women or children in need.
- Celebrate the joy of a healthy baby, whether it’s a boy or a girl!
IEC 9: Pledge Banner
The pledge banner is a symbolic commitment taken by members of the ‘Women and Child Protection Vigilance Committee’ at a Panchayat. Through this banner, they pledge to ensure no harassment of women, no discrimination against female children, and no child is deprived of care and treatment. Members affirm their commitment by signing the banner.
IEC 10: Case stories
These case stories highlight prevailing issues among couples and families, such as challenges with conception, the preference for a baby boy, and related societal attitudes. They demonstrate how attending Eligible Couple Day helped couples gain awareness, address these issues, and shift their attitudes by understanding health-related concerns, ultimately leading to improved health outcomes and informed decision-making.
IEC 11: KMC Mantras
KMC Mantras contain 10 essential tips for providing Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) to a Low Birth Weight (LBW) baby. These guidelines include the correct process and timing for administering KMC, as well as key dos and don’ts for ensuring the baby’s health and well-being. The tips emphasize skin-to-skin contact, proper positioning, breast feeding and the importance of warmth, nutrition, and monitoring for LBW babies.
IEC 12: Positive Parenting : Nurturing Care Framework-Essential Components for Child Development
The Nurturing Care Framework by WHO supports children’s growth during the critical 0–3 years, focusing on health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, early learning, and safety. Positive parenting fosters a loving, safe, and stimulating environment, vital for brain and socioemotional development.
The House of Positive Parenting emphasizes:
- Foundation: Bonding with the child.
- Walls: Ensuring safety.
- Blocks: Health, nutrition, caregiving, and learning.
- Roof: Parental self-care.
Fathers, mothers, and communities play crucial roles. Positive parenting improves children’s health, learning, and emotional well-being, creating a foundation for lifelong success.
