| In Arkansas, there are companies, nonprofits, ministries and individual citizens dedicated to helping mothers who are in crisis.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Maternal & Child Health Program brought several of those entities together for its annual summit. This year’s topic was “Supporting Mothers in Crisis.”
The four-hour virtual event — which had over 100 attendees — featured six sessions and consisted of presenters that spoke on issues such as moms experiencing incarceration, birth mortality, domestic violence and homelessness.
Alexandra Marshall, Ph.D., associate professor for the College of Public Health, said the committee’s goal was to shed light on issues that affect moms, how those situations trickle down to affect others and the ways the issues can be solved.
