Northern Consortium travels to Wisconsin to discuss IFDC
Ilise Zimmerman, our organization’s President and CEO, and Irvington Mayor Wayne Smith were invited by the Racine/ Kenosha Community Action Agency of Wisconsin and the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread to serve as consultants to the Greater Racine Collaborative for Healthy Birth Outcomes. Over the course of three days in Racine, Wisconsin, they presented the Irvington Family Development Center as a model for community development and improved health outcomes to officials of county and city government, hospital and health care administrators, educational and community leaders. The purpose of this engagement was to indicate how a Family Success Center could stimulate neighborhood engagement and decrease racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.
Pictured in the photo below are (from L-R) Sharon Schulz, Chief Executive Officer of the Racine / Kenosha Community Action Agency; Carole M. Johnson, Ph.D., Director of Local and Regional Community Programs of The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread; Ilise Zimmerman, President and CEO of the Northern Consortium; Wayne Smith, Mayor of the Township of Irvington; Lena Cooksey, Secretary, PWNS-Racine Kenosha Birthing Project; Roger C. Dower, President of the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread.
