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Vanderburgh County Health Department Infant Mortality Summit

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The Vanderburgh County Health Department will be holding the first ever local Infant Mortality Summit on February 17th, at the Old National Events Plaza.  This day long event will be a community call to action to work to improve our fetal, infant, and maternal health outcomes.  The keynote speaker will be former Indiana State Health Commissioners and former U. S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams.  Other distinguished speakers include Lt. Governor, Suzanne Crouch, City of Evansville Mayor, Lloyd Winnecke, and Board of Commissioner’s President Cheryl Musgrave.

The Vanderburgh County Health Department has prepared a full day of speakers and panelists that will highlight the issues of infant mortality, especially with in our African American population.  The event will start at 9am and conclude at 2:30pm CST.  We hope to bring awareness to this issue and potentially find new and varied resources that our local health care organizations can utilize, improving the health of the most vulnerable in our communities.  This summit would not be possible without help from our two largest sponsors, Deaconess’ Perinatal Center of Southern Indiana and Ascension St. Vincent’s Evansville.

Infant Mortality Summit

Agenda

8:00 – Registration 

9:00 – Welcome by Dr. Spear

9:05 – City of Evansville, Mayor Lloyd Winnecke

9:10 – State of Indiana, Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch

9:20 – Indiana State Health Commissioner, Dr. Kris Box (video)

9:40 – VCHD Director of Clinic and Outreach, Lynn Herr

10:10 – Morning Break

10:25 – Director of Perinatal Levels of Care for State of Indiana, Ashley Rainey

11:15 – Lunch

12:15 – Vanderburgh County Commission President, Cheryl Musgrave

12:20 – Panel lead by Joe Gries

1:20 – Break 

1:30 – Keynote speaker, former U. S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams with Dr. Ken Spear.

2:30 – Closing

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House rejects amendment that would notify parents if a teacher is carrying

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By Ashlyn Myers, TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana House reviewed over 45 bills Monday, with topics varying from handguns for teachers to child support.

Rep. Ed Delaney, D-Indianapolis, proposes two amendments before the House Chamber. Neither amendment passed.

Post-childbirth expenses

Authored by Rep. Elizabeth Rowray, R-Yorktown,House Bill 1009has seen a lot of changes since the start of the session. Initially, the bill aimed to add a portion to Indiana law about child support from conception, but after research found some troubling statistics regarding maternal death, Rowray reworked her bill.

If passed in its current version, HB 1009 would instead push for child support to include hospital and post-birth expenses, like strollers and therapy for mothers struggling with postpartum depression.

Lawmakers spent little time discussing the bill, though they did get into fine details of an amendment proposed by Rep. Cherrish Pryor, D-Indianapolis, making minor changes. It was found that some of the amendment’s language went against Indiana’s current law, and the amendment was voted out of order.

Handgun training for teachers

Rep. Ed Delaney, D-Indianapolis, proposed an amendment enabling parents to know if their children’s teachers are carrying if House Bill 1177 passes.

HB 1177 creates a standardized handgun curriculum for teachers to be trained in the case of an active shooter. In the bill’s original state, author Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, made it so that teachers carrying handguns could be anonymous. Lucas included this to eliminate active shooters from knowing which classrooms would have a firearm.

Delaney considered this part of the bill a violation of parental rights.

“The parents have a right, in my mind, to know whether the teacher assigned to their child will be either wearing or somewhere securing a weapon,” Delaney said.

Delaney brought another similar amendment, and both failed to pass.

Other bills

Additional bills that were heard regarded finances, veterans’ cemeteries and compliance fees for dental hygienists and dentists.

Ashlyn Myers is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy celebrates Black History Month with exhibits and special event

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VINCENNES, Ind., February 15, 2023 – The Red Skelton Museum of American Comedyinvites visitors to explore the stories of Black Hoosiers who broke ground for their community and paved a path for future generations while making contributions to Indiana. Exhibits and events will include a traveling exhibit from the Indiana Historical Society. The exhibit, “Groundbreaking Black Hoosiers,” will be open to the public, Feb. 28 – March 26, 2023, during regular museum hours at the Red Skelton Museum, 20 Red Skelton Blvd. located on the Vincennes University Campus.

In addition to the Indiana Historical Society exhibit, the Red Skelton Museum is showcasing “Red Skelton’s Groundbreaking Black Entertainers” from Feb. 14 – April 2, 2023, which presents the history of black entertainment by way of Red Skelton’s stage, movie, and television career. Red Skelton appeared with many groundbreaking black entertainers from his early-stage years to his television show. They included: Bill Robinson, Mills Brothers, Leana Horne, Mahalia Jackson, the Supremes, and others. Movie clips and photos from the television archives are on display.

The Red Skelton Museum will offer free admission on Sunday, March 5, and will host a special program on Groundbreaking Black Citizens in Knox County from 1-3 p.m.

Although the stories in “Groundbreaking Black Hoosiers” are far from an encyclopedic look at Black excellence or accomplishment, they present a compelling example of the important role Black people have played in Hoosier history, a role that has too often been erased.

Here is a glimpse at some of the people highlighted in this exhibit:

  • Wilma Gibbs Moore, a historian at the Indiana Historical Society who worked to save the stories of Black Hoosiers from disappearing.
  • Mary Bateman Clark, who sued for her freedom from indentured servitude, the way for some Hoosiers to get around slavery laws.
  • Madam C.J. Walker, a successful businesswoman who fought for racial equality and access to beauty in early 20th-century Indianapolis.
  • Second Lieutenant Aaron R. Fisher, the most decorated Black WWI veteran in Indiana.
  • Doctor Henry Hummons, who started a free clinic for Black Hoosiers at Flanner House to help combat medical disparities during the fight against tuberculosis.
  • William Wilson Cooke, an architect who fought racism in banking in Gary to help build needed buildings for the burgeoning Black community there.

“Groundbreaking Black Hoosiers” is made possible by a generous grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Ashby Joins Arts Commission as Grants and Research Manager

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(INDIANAPOLIS) The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) announced today the hiring of Eric Ashby as the Grants and Research Manager.

Eric joins the Arts Commission with a background in project management, strategic planning, data analysis, and entrepreneurship. Eric has worked at the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement, building engagement frameworks and programs to improve quality of place through arts and creativity. Additionally, he worked as a project manager for the Arts Administration Program and Dean’s Office at the O’Neill School at Indiana University and serves as a project specialist with Bridgeway Capital, supporting efforts to track and support small creative business development. Outside of work, Eric is a drummer and has been playing since the age of 3. 


In his new position, Eric will be responsible for overseeing the agency’s granting programs and processes, data and research priorities, and state and federal programmatic compliance.  

Eric holds a B.S. in Arts Management as well as an M.A. in Arts Administrationand a Masters of Public Affairs from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington. 

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