Programs

Through a broad range of health, social, education, violence prevention and youth development programs, INMED is helping to create opportunities that inspire hope, build self-reliance and encourage community collaboration to sustain positive change.

INMED develops its programs within three priority areas:

• Maternal and Child Health
• Disease Prevention, Control and Management
• Childhood and Community Education and Skills Building

Within each of these areas, INMED builds partnerships that create a strong foundation for children’s health and education, inspire communities to invest in children’s futures, and create new opportunities for children to maximize their potential and achieve lifelong success.

A Continuum of Care: INMED’s Strategy for Generational Change

INMED takes a holistic approach to transforming the lives and futures of disadvantaged children—we address both their immediate needs as well as the root causes of the challenges they face, and strengthen their families and communities so that today’s positive changes can be sustained over the long term. All of INMED’s programs come together to create a continuum of care from infancy through the teen years and into adulthood:

Promoting Children’s Health, Development and Safety

• Child Survival (Healthy Babies)
• Perinatal Home Visitation (MotherNet)
• Immunization Outreach
• Deworming/Health, Hygiene and Sanitation Education (Healthy Children, Healthy Futures)
• Micronutrient Supplementation
• HIV/AIDS Prevention (The Sooner the Better)
• School and Community Gardens (Garden Brazil, Healthy Futures South Africa)
• Nutrition Education
• Oral Health Education
• Pediatric Asthma, Diabetes and Obesity Education and Case Management (Take Charge!)
• Childhood Obesity Prevention (Lyrics for Life)
• Health Coverage Enrollment

Creating Opportunities for Children’s Success in Life

• Basic Education (Ready to Teach, Ready to Learn, Centers of Excellence for Teacher Training)
• Mentoring for Children of Prisoners (Embracing Our Youth)
• Youth Gang Intervention/Violence Prevention (Earn Respect)
• Positive Youth Development through Music (IAMusic)

Building Family Capacity to Provide Supportive Environments for Children

• Parenting Skills Education and Parent Support Groups
• Domestic Violence Education and Intervention
• Family Resource Centers providing life skills and personal capacity building education

Strengthening Community Capacity to Sustain Positive Change

• Community Health Fairs
• Compton Family Health Collaborative
• Community-Level Change Projects
• Train-the-Trainer elements of community-based health, nutrition, gardening and education projects

To see how each of these programs fits into the continuum of care, click here.