Register today for a valuable day of collaboration, education and networking. Gain actionable insights for improving the health care community in Northeast Ohio. Featuring presenters from United Way 2-1-1 of San Diego, The Cleveland Clinic, The MetroHealth System, ideastream, Case Western Reserve University, Baldwin Wallace University, and more! To register or learn more, click here.

Trauma is an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that an individual experiences as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening and has lasting adverse effects. Our trauma-informed care webinar series begins with a review of how trauma affects the brain and how it manifests in beliefs, behaviors, and activities of traumatized individuals. Presenter Elizabeth Boyle, MBA from Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities provides a perspective that helps define the hallmarks of trauma-informed agency protocols, and universal precautions against re-traumatizing vulnerable populations. Access the webinar here.

Better Health announces plans are underway to bring a successful "pay for performance" model called Pathways Community HUB to Cleveland to help combat infant mortality. The organization is working with the city-county infant mortality coalition, First Year Cleveland, as well as other local public health agencies, to design a HUB for the region. The model has so far delivered impressive results in the area of infant health: in Mansfield, where the HUB has been operating the longest, women who participated delivered low-birth-weight babies at less than half the rate of those at the same risk level who did not participate. Read the article on cleveland.com here.