Community Health Workers = Support
What is a Community Health Worker?
A community health worker is someone from the community positioned to promote the community's voice within the health care system.
What do Community Health Workers do?
Community heath workers provide a variety of supports to pregnant and parenting people. They can be nurses, prenatal educators, doulas, or paraprofessionals like home visitors. They provide education, connection to resources, and emotional support during and through the transition to motherhood.
Community Support Agencies:
Her Health First: Black Mother's United
Embracing the Miracle of Birth,
We Empower Black mothers.
Our mission is to lower the Black infant mortality rate and risk of premature or low birth weight in Sacramento County. We ensure Black mothers have a positive, healthy pregnancy by providing free resources, education, and support in the prenatal stages through the postpartum period.
The Black Infant Health Program provides services to American-born African American women for the purpose of eliminating the disproportionate rate of African American infant mortality in the Sacramento County community. African American women experience two-and-a-half times the rate of infant deaths compared to other racial and ethnic groups in our community.
The Black Infant Health Program provides a support group that encourages empowerment and social support in the context of a life course perspective. In addition, social service case management is provided to ensure access to community and health-related services. The services provided by the Black Infant Health Program are done in a culturally-relevant manner that respects the woman’s beliefs and cultural values while promoting overall health and wellness.
Program Goals
- Improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women practice sound health-related behaviors, such as obtaining good prenatal care from their physicians, improving their diets, and reducing use of cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs
- Improve child health and development by helping parents provide more responsible and competent care for their children
- Improve families’ economic self-sufficiency by helping parents develop a vision for their future, plan future pregnancies, continue their education, and find jobs
Services Provided
- Public health nurses make home visits during the women's pregnancy and first two years of the child's life
- Nurse home visitors follow a visitor schedule keyed to the developmental stages of pregnancy and childhood
Birth & Beyond Family Resource Centers
Birth & Beyond Family Resource Centers are welcoming places offering a range of services, activities, and opportunities that respond comprehensively to the needs and hopes of local residents and families.
Partner agencies work closely together to align and integrate their efforts to ensure that families are able to get what they need in order to achieve their goals.
Family Resource Centers collaborate broadly across systems and provide effective supports based on a deep understanding of the community served.
