Archived INMED in the News
INMED's MotherNet L.A. Program Featured by First 5 LAGrantee Profile: Teen Finds Support with the South Los Angeles Best Babies Collaborative |
| A case manager with MotherNet LA, a member of the South LA Best Babies Collaborative, Emily began working with Amanda two months after her baby was born. A willing Amanda, who asked that her real name not be used, was quickly enrolled in the BBC, and she and Emily began to work on a plan to improve the lives of mother and daughter. --Released May 28, 2007 Read more... |
INMED Partnered with Gibson Foundation and the Bob Marley Foundation Featured in the Loudoun Times MirrorThe Marley Effect |
| INMED Partnerships for Children, based in Sterling, reaches out to improve the lives of children worldwide.
IMED partnered with the Gibson Foundation and the Bob Marley Foundation to bring 25 guitars to school children in Jamaica. Two of the schools in the program are in Trenchtown, where reggae music legend Bab Marley grew up. --Released May 9, 2007 Read more... |
INMED Featured in the Loudoun Times MirrorChanging the World, One Child at a Time |
| Linda Pfeiffer was poised, 20 years ago, doctorate in hand, to spend her life in the halls of academe. She chose instead to found INMED Partnerships For Children. The Sterling-based nonprofit focuses on the needs of children, "and it's all about partnerships between the private and public sectors, to make a difference in the lives of kids around the world," Pfeiffer said. INMED is best known in Loudoun for its outreach to pregnant women and teens, new parents and their children - MotherNet/Healthy families Loudoun. Its effect is felt more in developing countries in Latin America and Africa. --Released March 29, 2007 Read more... |
GE Foundation and INMEDGE Foundation Strengthening Primary Education in Brazil |
| The GE Foundation and GE Elfun Volunteers have teamed up with INMED to support an innovative program in Rio de Janeiro that will improve children's health, nutrition and education, and in the process lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning. The "Children as Agents of Change" project will benefit nearly 2,000 students (ages 4-14) in local public schools by integrating social topics - such as citizenship, self-esteem, hygiene care, nutrition and preventive health - into the curriculum. Read more... |
INMED's MotherNet Loudoun Program Featured in the Washington PostCatching Families Before They Fall |
| For Deysi Marquez, a Salvadoran immigrant living in Leesburg, the emergency Caesarean delivery of her premature twin sons in May 2001 was a frightening and traumatic event. Alex and Cristian, born during her 26th week of pregnancy, had heart problems and were immediately put on oxygen. Their father had returned to El Salvador to be with his family after an earthquake, and she had no way to communicate with him. And because she spoke no English, she had no way to communicate with her doctors, either. --Released February 10, 2005 Read more... |
INMED's MotherNet Loudoun Program Featured by the Freddie Mac FoundationPartnership With Healthy Families Loudoun Celebrates Lasting Effects |
| MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun, one of 10 sites that the Freddie Mac Foundation helped open in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary and partnership with the Foundation. David Robinson, director of Community Relations Operations; and SVP and COO of the Freddie Mac Foundation, accompanied the organization’s executives to visit a family in Leesburg that has benefited from our support. --Released February 15, 2005 Read more... |
INMED's MotherNet Loudoun Program Featured in the Freddie Mac Foundation 2003 Annual Report "A Portrait of Hope"Freddie Mac Foundation 2003 Philanthropic Report |
| José Perez and Doris Cañas with sons Andy and Alexy When their youngest son’s medical prognosis was uncertain, the Cañas-Perez family turned to MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun for help. There, the family found hope and support when they needed it most. INMED's MotherNet Loudoun program is featured on pages 10-11 --Released 2004 by Freddie Mac Read full report... Read INMED client profile pages 10-11... |
INMED Press ReleaseHealthy Children, Healthy Futures: INMED’s Public-Private Partnership Initiative Improves the Health and Lives of Brazil’s Children |
| More than 350,000 children across Brazil have been freed from debilitating and sometimes life-threatening intestinal parasites by an innovative public-private program led by INMED and its partners, stressing treatment and critical health education. In the next five years INMED plans to reach at least 2 million of the most at-risk children in communities identified by Brazilian health authorities throughout Brazil. --Released April 18, 2002 Read more... |
INMED Press ReleaseLay Home Educators Help Meet the Challenge of a Changing American Health Care SystemTrend to Broader Responsibilities Reflected in New Women's Wellness Sourcebook, Introduced at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting |
| Lay home educators are being trained to take on increasingly broader responsibilities for health information delivery, according to a report given at the American Public Health Association annual meeting here today. Lay home educators are community members trained by health care professionals to help families from their own cultural and socioeconomic background access important health services and information. --Released November 10, 1997 Read more... |