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MotherToBaby
Our Core Vision, Purpose & Values
Core Vision
The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS) will be the world’s leading source of evidence-based information on exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Core Purpose / Mission Statement
The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS) is a professional scientific organization composed of experts engaged in assessing and evaluating risks to pregnancy and breastfeeding outcomes from medications and other exposures. OTIS members support and contribute to worldwide initiatives for teratology education and research. MotherToBaby, the public information service of OTIS, is dedicated to providing evidence-based information to parents, health care professionals, and the general public about medications and other exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Core Values
- Empowering women, health care professionals, and the public by educating them with accurate, up-to-date information about the effects of exposures during pregnancy or while breastfeeding, enabling informed decision-making.
- Reducing the risk of preventable birth defects and other disabilities by educating mothers, health care professionals, and the public about specific agents of concern.
- Facilitating ongoing professional development, communication, and collaboration among OTIS membership and affiliated MotherToBaby services.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between affiliated services.
- Contributing to the worldwide literature in the field of human teratology by education and research.
Text Questions to: 855-999-3525
If you need additional help you can reach out to the Georgia office until they get a Tennessee coordinator.
Lauren Kozlowski, MSW, MPH
Program Coordinator
MotherToBaby Georgia
T: (404) 727-6101
Tennessee Lifeline Peer Project
What is the Lifeline Peer Project?
The Lifeline Peer Project is established to reduce stigma related to the disease of addiction and increase access to substance abuse recovery like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
What are the services offered with Lifeline Peer Project?
Lifeline Representatives help start Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Celebrate Recovery, and other self-help support groups. They help connect individuals with treatment and they speak publicly about their own personal experience with recovery.
How do I access the Lifeline Peer Project?
There are 10 Lifeline coordinators located throughout the state. The map below includes the locations of the Lifeline Coordinators along with their direct contact information.
For more information, contact a Lifeline Representative near you.
MotherToBaby
Our Core Vision, Purpose & Values
Core Vision
The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS) will be the world’s leading source of evidence-based information on exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Core Purpose / Mission Statement
The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS) is a professional scientific organization composed of experts engaged in assessing and evaluating risks to pregnancy and breastfeeding outcomes from medications and other exposures. OTIS members support and contribute to worldwide initiatives for teratology education and research. MotherToBaby, the public information service of OTIS, is dedicated to providing evidence-based information to parents, health care professionals, and the general public about medications and other exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Core Values
- Empowering women, health care professionals, and the public by educating them with accurate, up-to-date information about the effects of exposures during pregnancy or while breastfeeding, enabling informed decision-making.
- Reducing the risk of preventable birth defects and other disabilities by educating mothers, health care professionals, and the public about specific agents of concern.
- Facilitating ongoing professional development, communication, and collaboration among OTIS membership and affiliated MotherToBaby services.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between affiliated services.
- Contributing to the worldwide literature in the field of human teratology by education and research.
Text Questions to: 855-999-3525
If you need additional help you can reach out to the Georgia office until they get a Tennessee coordinator.
Lauren Kozlowski, MSW, MPH
Program Coordinator
MotherToBaby Georgia
T: (404) 727-6101
Tennessee Lifeline Peer Project
What is the Lifeline Peer Project?
The Lifeline Peer Project is established to reduce stigma related to the disease of addiction and increase access to substance abuse recovery like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
What are the services offered with Lifeline Peer Project?
Lifeline Representatives help start Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Celebrate Recovery, and other self-help support groups. They help connect individuals with treatment and they speak publicly about their own personal experience with recovery.
How do I access the Lifeline Peer Project?
There are 10 Lifeline coordinators located throughout the state. The map below includes the locations of the Lifeline Coordinators along with their direct contact information.
For more information, contact a Lifeline Representative near you.
The National Council for Aging Care
Alcoholism doesn’t stop once you hit a certain age. While it may sound easy to chalk up an alcoholic’s tendencies to “he’s lived a long life already and earned the right to make his own decisions,” there is no specific age where it’s okay for you to be consuming mass amounts of alcohol.
The National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence points out that up to 11 percent of elderly hospital admissions are because of drug- and alcohol-related issues. This is a similar rate to elderly people being admitted to the hospital because of heart attacks, which can also be caused by prolonged alcoholism.
Read more at the National Council for Aging Care Website
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a program promoting fellowship between those who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional peer support group, meetings are self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. There are restrictions, membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.
Go to AA and see Need Help With a Drinking Problem?
Find resources below for information regarding A.A. and its members, groups and committees as well as services provided by the General Service Office. If what you are lookhing for does not appear in this section, please keep in mind that local A.A. Central Offices, Intergroups, and your General Service Area Committees are often a helpful resource for information.
Sex Addicts Anonymous
Sex Addicts Anonymous is a peer based fellowship that shares experience, strength, and hope with one another for the purpose of finding freedom from addictive sexual behavior as well as helping others recover from sex addiction. Peer run meetings offer an accepting, non-threatening environment where members can share common struggles and learn how to apply the principles of the Twelve Steps to their everyday lives.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop addictive sexual behavior. There are never fees or dues.
SA meetings are strictly anonymous as confidentiality is of the utmost importance to members. this ensures that group meetings are a safe place for all who attend.
From the SA website: "We discovered that, when we began applying the Twelve Steps conscientiously in our lives, we could abstain both from obsessive mental preoccupation with sex and compulsive sexual behavior. We found faith and courage to change our way of thinking and acting."
OverEaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous Preamble: Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA to those who still suffer.
Visit the OA website and take the self assessment
Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous is a global, community-based organization with a multi-lingual and multicultural membership. Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.
To find meetings anywhere in Tennessee simply follow the link below and then choose your region from the right hand side under the "areas" heading.