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Highlights from the Evaluation of Your Green Guide to Pregnancy Workshop

Vida’s research team has recently finished their evaluation on the “Your Green Guide to Pregnancy” workshop with some promising initial findings! The workshop covered several different categories of environmental risks that can occur during pregnancy. These included: risks in the household, risks with personal care and beauty products, and risks involving foods.

The evaluation [...]

Vida & the March of Dimes Evaluating “Close to Me”

The Vida Health research team is working with March of Dimes to evaluate Close to Me, a staff and parent learning module that is part March of Dimes NICU Family Support, a program that seeks to promote a philosophy of family-centered care in newborn intensive care units (NICUs). Close to Me is intended to [...]

A Message from Barbara Costa, Project Manager

I’m very excited to join Vida Health Communications, Inc. as Project Manager on a course we’re producing for nurses about workplace violence.

Funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), this web-based curriculum will help nurses identify, prevent, and respond to violence where they work, as well as to [...]

Project Progress Report

Managing Environmental Risks in Pregnancy Online Course:

The online course for prenatal providers is nearing completion. Pilot testing is anticipated to take place in September. Formal evaluation of the course will begin in October.

All Babies Cry:

Vida’s research team is preparing the evaluation of the three-part All Babies Cry media package for new parents. We plan to [...]

Your Green Guide to Pregnancy – Professional Edition Now Available!

Your Green Guide to Pregnancy is designed to help prenatal healthcare providers and educators teach women how to reduce their risk of exposure to environmental toxins during pregnancy.

Vida’s newest release continues to receive honors! Your Green Guide to Pregnancy has been awarded a Gold Remi at the 43rd Annual WorldFest- Houston International Film Festival in [...]

Vida Around the World

Dear Vida,

We spoke with a few teens after one of the video showings to hear what they thought of the content. Everyone enjoyed the material and mentioned how much they appreciated the thorough explanation of labor and that they had a better understanding of what to expect during their own deliveries.

Our patients are young (we [...]

Your Green Guide to Pregnancy Wins Telly and HeSCA Awards

Vida’s newest release continues to receive honors! “Your Green Guide to Pregnancy” has been awarded a Telly statuette for excellence in the Health and Wellness category. Since 1978, the Telly Awards has strengthened the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting, and supporting creativity. The 31st Annual Telly Awards received over 10,000 entries.

“Your Green Guide to [...]

Your Green Guide to Pregnancy Wins Gold Remi Award at Worldfest Houston

Vida’s newest program on prenatal environmental health has been awarded a Gold Remi at the 43rd Annual WorldFest- Houston International Film Festival.  Selected from over 50 participants in its category,  Your Green Guide to Pregnancy is designed to help prenatal healthcare providers and educators teach women how to reduce their risk of exposure to environmental toxins [...]

A Message from Chris Spence, Director of E-Learning Technology

It's been an eventful "rookie season" for me here at Vida Health Communications. I came on board in early October to orchestrate the development of an interactive courseware platform and to oversee the integration of e-learning technologies with Vida's curricular materials. The primary focus of these efforts so far has been construction of the "Vida Course Player": a lightweight, scalable web application that delivers a variety of engaging, media-rich learning opportunities to our clients and [...]

All Babies Cry Receives continuing funding from NICHD

Vida learned this week that NICHD has awarded continuing funding for the phase II portion of our All Babies Cry project. Working with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and five regional hospitals, Vida will test an educational intervention designed to help new parents cope with the stresses brought on by crying infants. The intervention [...]