Our First Baby: Health Education for Adolescents Who are Pregnant or First-Time Parents

The Our First Baby Facilitator’s Guide contains nine participatory sessions to be used in small group sessions with first-time mothers and their male partners. Sessions cover fertility, antenatal care, care of the mother during pregnancy, first-time fatherhood, birth planning/delivery, newborn and postpartum care, exclusive breastfeeding, healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy, family planning, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and gender-based violence.

The Facilitator’s Guide is accompanied by a Flipbook. Each page of the Flipbook has pictures on one side and an explanation to be used by the facilitator on the other side.

Source: Save the Children

Date of Publication: May 14, 2020

SIMILIAR RESOURCES

Tools

Examples

Life Choices Family Planning Flip Chart

The Life Choices Family Planning Flip Chart was created as part of the “Life Choices” campaign in Ghana. It is a counseling tool with full-color illustrations and basic information on each contraceptive method, including: description of method, how it works, advantages and disadvantages.

The flip chart also includes diagrams and basic information on the female and male reproductive organs.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: January 29, 2020

Family Planning IPC Guide

A guide to aid Community Mobilizers (CMs) in facilitating discussions around FP and Childbirth Spacing (CBS) for the adoption of a modern contraceptive method. There is a specific flip chart for Community Dialogue and Compound meeting

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Cholera Flipcharts

This is a module created to improve preparedness for and response of communities in countries at risk of a cholera epidemic.

The module consists of four lesson plans with accompanying flipcharts, intended to be delivered through community health workers. The lessons target mothers and caregivers of children under age five, a group that is at particular risk of death if infected. The module shares information about symptoms and risks; what families can do to prevent infection; how, when, and where to seek care; and what actions to take in the aftermath of an outbreak.

Source: CORE Group

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Discussion Cards (Hill, Mountain, Terai)

Suaahara was a five year (2011-2016) project funded by USAID aimed to improve the nutritional status of women and children in 41 districts of Nepal. The project focused on improving health and nutrition behaviors at the household level through promotion of Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions (EN/HA), particularly Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN), and addressing other determinants of under-nutrition, such as availability of and access to food, hygiene, quality of health care, child spacing and socio-cultural factors including gender and marginalization.

Integrated (Unifying Theme-Bhanchhin Aama) Campaign: Suaahara developed and implemented the integrated Bhanchhin Aama (“Mother knows best”) cohesive platform which linked varied messages and reinforced recommended actions through a wide array of channels including mass media (radio programs, radio spots and billboards), print, and social mobilization. The platform involved multiple sectors (nutrition, agriculture, WASH, health service promotion, family planning), linked Suaahara partners, government and others, and had multiple messages for every target audience (pregnant women, husbands, newly married women, mothers-in-law, etc.).

The SBCC strategy established an internal quality materials review and production system to ensure that all partners in the consortium had mutually reinforcing, quality materials developed, pretested, produced and disseminated to the end user.

Discussion Cards (Hill, Mountain, Terai)

These discussion cards were developed to support community mobilizers in creating interactive discussion on the intended 6 key health behavior actions and its barriers on Maternal nutrition, Exclusive breast-feeding, complementing feeding, sick child feeding, hand washing and birth spacing. Other objective of this card to stimulate thinking and increase intention to practice the intended behaviors.

Target Audience- Community Mobilizers (FCHV, Community Mobilizers) from 3 ecological regions – High Hill (Mountain), Hill and Terai.

Key Messages were included in this discussion cards:

  1. Extra food for pregnant women and lactating mother
  2. Exclusive breast-feeding
  3. Animal source food, orange fleshed foods and greens in complimentary food
  4. Food for Sick child
  5. Birth spacing
  6. Hand washing with soap and water at critical times

These discussion cards were distributed to each of the Community Mobilizers (FCHV, Community Mobilizers) during Essential Nutrition/Hygiene Action training, household counseling and group meetings in all Suaahara implementing 41 districts.

Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/ Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Drive Malaria Away for Goodlife

Let’s come together and drive malaria away for the GoodLife. In June 2011 BCS and ProMPT, in partnership with the National Malaria Control Programme and the Ghana Health Service, launched the new “Aha ye de” malaria campaign. “Aha ye de” means “It’s Good Here” in Twi, one of Ghana’s national languages. The campaign is designed to reposition the use of treated nets as a lifestyle decision, while at the same time preventing malaria, linking to the BCS’s overarching GoodLife campaign. The campaign seeks to increase risk perception by emphasizing the severity and threats of malaria. At the same time, the campaign empowers individuals to use malaria prevention and appropriate treatment. This flipchart is designed to be used in a clinic setting with an individual, couple, or group and provides basic information and illustrations on understanding malaria and its risks, how to treat malaria, and malaria in pregnant women.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Suaahara Home Stead Food Production (HFP) Poultry Flip Chart

Suaahara was a five year (2011-2016) project funded by USAID aimed to improve the nutritional status of women and children in 41 districts of Nepal. The project focused on improving health and nutrition behaviors at the household level through promotion of Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions (EN/HA), particularly Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN), and addressing other determinants of under-nutrition, such as availability of and access to food, hygiene, quality of health care, child spacing and socio-cultural factors including gender and marginalization.

Suaahara was implemented by a consortium of partner organizations led by Save the Children.

The SBCC strategy established an internal quality materials review and production system to ensure that all partners in the consortium had mutually reinforcing, quality materials developed, pretested, produced and disseminated to the end user.

In the year 2013, Suaahara developed this Home Stead Food Production (HFP) related Poultry Flipchart with key messages on “Poultry for Family Nutrition”. The flipchart focuses on poultry system, management of intensive coops, strategy of brooding systems, chicken diseases and immunization etc. The main objective of this flip chart to improve household poultry rearing practices so that egg and meat production and consumption will be increased.

Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/ Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Suaahara Food, Farming, and Feeding Materials

Suaahara is an integrated nutrition project that works in 41 underserved districts in Nepal to improve the health and well-being of the Nepali people by focusing on the nutritional status of women and children under-two years of age. Suaahara means good nutrition, or “a good balanced diet is the strong foundation protecting our lives.”

These posters and ohter materials focus on feeding practices, food preparation, and farming.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Obstetric Fistula Picture Book

This picture book is designed to support health service providers and field-level workers in raising awareness among local leaders and the general population about obstetric fistula and engaging these audiences in the effort to prevent obstetric fistula and improve maternal health in their communities.

The book is divided into three sections:

  • Section 1 describes the tragic story of 14 year old Fatema. The story is intended to be used in stimulating discussion about the factors contributing to Fatema’s tragedy.
  • Section 2 describes what an obstetric fistula is and how an obstetric fistula develops.
  • Section 3 focuses on how obstetric fistula can be prevented. It describes important actions that women, families, and communities can take to ensure that women go through pregnancy safely.

Source: EngenderHealth

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Mozambique Medical Circumcision Flipchart: Community version

This flipchart was produced as part of the Medical Circumcision project in Mozambique. The flipchart is designed to be used in a clinic setting, and includes information on: what is medical circumcision, how it is performed, advantages for adults and youth, for men and also for women, level of pain that can be expected, recovery time, possible complications, resuming sexual relations, and preventing HIV transmission/infection.

Source: Mozambique Ministry of Health

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019