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2009 CityMatCH Urban MCH Leadership Conferenceto promote health behaviors through positive reinforcement for participants and a stipend for programcoordinator and host church.ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RESULTSPhase 1: Development of manuals for Honey Child coordinators, facilitators, mentors and participantscompleted in 2007-08. Self administered data collection instruments (enrollment survey, knowledge andstress survey pretest and post test, satisfaction survey and post intervention survey) gained IRB approval.Phase II: Implementation of Honey Child in five churches in Texas.Preliminary results of Honey Child 2008 –• 83 percent of participants showed a statistically significant increase in knowledge from baseline tofollow-up, with 53 percent showing a 20% or greater increase in knowledge.• Approximately 91% were full term, nine percent were born before 37 weeks, and 1.9% born less than32 weeks of gestation. The mean age was 38.4 weeks.• There was a statistically significant inverse correlation between perceived maternal stress and socialsupport. As social support increased, maternal stress decreased.• On a scale of one to 10 (1 being worst and 10 being best), the participants gave the Honey ChildPrenatal education experience an average score of 9.5.BARRIERSFaith-based organizations gaining access to participants in public health organizations caused recruitmentgoals to not be reached.LESSONS LEARNEDSuccessful implementation requires African-American faith-based leadership, involvement, input andownership. The gains in knowledge are important as the participants share this knowledge with theirsocial networks thereby increasing and expanding the role of Honey Child.73