Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach (MLCO)

Risk Reduction for children and families

BEGIN (Be Empowered Grow Intentionally Now) Pediatric Diabetes Program

A program that aims to improve diabetes self-management through community-based diabetes education for patients and families, wearable technology to monitor A1Cs, peer counseling groups and other evidence-based interventions.

CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders)

This program aims to improve the daily lives of seniors, extend their ability to live independently and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations through inter-disciplinary occupational therapy, registered nurse and home modification assessments and services.

CHAMP (Changing High-Risk Asthma in Memphis through Partnership)

A program that targets asthma, the most chronic disease of childhood. A team of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and community health educators teaches and supports families to better manage asthma and address the triggers that cause attacks.

Chronic Disease Self-Management Program

A six-week education workshop for those with various chronic health conditions (arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, HIV, lung disease, etc.) or their caregivers. The program aims to build participants’ confidence in managing their health and keep them active and engaged in their lives.

Congregational Health Network (CHN)

A network dedicated to improving health and well-being by increasing access to medical care and social services for individuals and families within church communities. CHN navigators work alongside pastors and congregational liaisons of all faith denominations to identify and address their congregations' unique health needs and concerns and surrounding communities.

Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (D.E.E.P.)

A six-week program to educate participants on improving diabetes self-management to lower A1C measures and achieve better health.

Get Set! and Kids on the Move

This program aims to motivate children and youth to maintain healthy diets, incorporate more physical activities into their daily lives, and prevent obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.

Healthy Lifestyle Network

A hospital-based multidisciplinary program that helps obese children and adolescents reduce and manage their weight. The network includes partnerships with schools, parks and recreation facilities, community centers and local government to develop evidence-based, scalable and sustainable wellness programs.

Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

A program that addresses the needs of high-risk patients/community members diagnosed with or at-risk for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The goal is to improve self-management of diabetes, reduce A1C values, improve school or work attendance, and decrease preventable hospital and Emergency Department utilization.

Wellness Without Walls (WOW)

This program aims to provide community-based health screenings, resources, information and access to healthy lifestyles programs for residents of the 38109 area through regularly scheduled events held at Riverside Community Center.

West Tennessee Delta Program

This program aims to provide regional obesity prevention services and education to improve population health and reduce chronic disease in rural West Tennessee. Services are provided by the West Tennessee Delta Consortium, a multi-agency collaborative.

Intervention to promote healthy child development and support for effective parenting

Child Care Resource & Referral Center

The Shelby County affiliate of a state-wide program provides training and technical assistance to child care providers. It helps parents seeking child care find the best fit for their unique situations and needs.

Child Developmental Services

A group of programs to support families, child care centers, and partner agencies with young children with developmental, health, medical or behavioral needs. Services are provided in homes, schools, child care centers and other community facilities.

Early Intervention

A program that helps families support their children with special needs to reach their developmental potential. Services include developmental therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy and support of a board-certified behavior analyst in the natural environment for families who qualify for the Tennessee Early Intervention System (TEIS).

Family Resilience Initiative

A multidisciplinary collaboration that assesses Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Our team provides wrap-around services to build resilience and prevent ACEs within a trauma-informed setting with community partner resources to address needs.

Healthy Families America

A home visitation service for young mothers, following children from birth through the age of 5 years. The program follows the nationally recognized Healthy Families America model, an evidence-based home visiting model that works with overburdened families who are at-risk for adverse childhood experiences.

Inclusion Support

A program that provides assistance to parents, early childcare educators within licensed child care centers and family child care homes to ensure that children with chronic and complex medical/developmental needs have a successful early childhood education experience.

School-Based Therapy

Services include universal speech and language screenings for pre-K and kindergarten, direct therapy, consultation with other service providers, evaluation and assessment, assistance in developing and implementing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and 504 plans, and professional development for parents and educators.

Tipton County School Nurse Program

A program that aims to improve student health and academic achievement by providing screenings, immunizations, health education, chronic disease management and emergency and sick care at participating schools.

Urban Child School Nurse Program

This program aims to improve student health and academic achievement by implementing a school nurse Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model at five participating SCS schools.

“Be Proud! Be Responsible! Memphis!”

Skill-building classes use videos, games, exercises, role-playing situations and other materials to reinforce learning and build a sense of pride and responsibility in reducing teen pregnancy, unsafe sexual behaviors and HIV risk among adolescents. Education is provided in schools, churches and community centers.

Community High Impact Prevention (CHIP)

A program that aims to provide free HIV testing, evidence-based prevention interventions and linkage to care for target HIV-positive and high-risk negative target populations.

Community HIV Network

A network of programs providing counseling and testing, risk reduction and education, case management, navigation and care for individuals at-risk for, infected with and affected by HIV or AIDS.

HIV Testing, Counseling and Referral

The program aims to: 1) identify HIV-positive individuals and link them to care; 2) identify high-risk HIV-negative individuals and refer them for PrEP services; and 3) provide HIV prevention education for all who are tested and may be at-risk.

Ryan White Part A: Anti-Retroviral Treatment and Access to Services (ARTAS) Program

ARTAS aims to link newly diagnosed or previously diagnosed out-of-care HIV-positive individuals to medical care and support services.

Ryan White Part A: Certifications Program

This program supports certification and re-certification of Ryan White clients.

Ryan White Part B

A program that aims to help HIV-positive individuals in achieving viral suppression through adherence counseling and by facilitating access to needed resources.

Ryan White Part D Family Care Program (FCP)

The federal Part D program was established to serve and meet the unique medical and psycho-social needs of women (including women who are pregnant), infants, children and youth up to age 25 who are infected or affected by HIV.

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP)

This program aims to provide factual knowledge and evidence-based skills to help adolescents avoid unsafe behaviors that can result in unwanted sex, pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.

Breastfeeding Clinic

A free service to patients of the Le Bonheur Pediatrics Clinics. Professional lactation consultants work with mothers to improve their breastfeeding experience by evaluating the baby’s breastfeeding and offering advice to improve technique. Consultants also offer general support, encouragement and evidence-based information to the mother and her family.

Family Resilience Initiative

The Family Resilience Initiative (FRI) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration that assesses for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Social Determinants of Health and provides a wraparound approach to provide services to mitigate unmet health-related social needs of children and their families. A research arm of the project is concurrently examining the biological impacts on participants to better understand the link between family and environmental stressors in early childhood and later health outcomes.

Healthy Families America (HFA) and HFA Enhanced

The programs aim to cultivate the growth of nurturing, responsive, parent-child relationships; promote healthy childhood growth and development; and build the foundations for stronger family functioning.

Language Environment Analysis (LENA) Start

A technology program that aims to improve language development and school readiness while supporting cognitive, emotional, and social development.

Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)

An evidence-based home visitation program that has shown improvements in pregnancy outcomes, the health, well-being and self-sufficiency of low-income, first-time parents and their children. Women are enrolled prenatally and receive regular visits by a nurse until the child’s second birthday.

NFP GHHI Housing Navigation Services

The program aims to increase access to available housing assistance programs for 150 families in the Nurse-Family Partnership program over a three-year period.

Triple P (Positive Parenting Program®

This program teaches positive parenting practices that reduce parent stress and child abuse while promoting social-emotional competence and resiliency.