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California Preterm Birth Initiative

The Benioff Community Innovators are a group of women from four community based organizations who work with pregnant moms faced with housing insecurity in San Francisco.

In 2017 they worked with the faculty, staff and masters in public health students from San Francisco State University and the California PTBi to change the way researchers work with communities and understand the issue of housing and preterm birth.

Birth Companions Community Center (BCCC)

Video produced and edited by Karina Patel

Birth Companions Community Center is a non-profit organization that helps low-income, immigrant families with labor, birth, and postpartum. BCCC offers a program to anyone interested in becoming a certified doula; 36 doulas currently volunteer their time at the Center. Doula services are provided to any mother wanting one for free. They also receive many donations and offer food, clothes, diapers, formula, and toys for expecting and current mothers. On top of all of those services, they hold classes and workshops to educate and guide expecting mothers as well as host a baby shower every three months for those utilizing the services.

To see about their workshops, events, or getting involved,

visit https://birthcompanionscommunitycenter.org

This video was made possible by Maria Vallejo Hower.

maria@sfcityvitals.org

Online Training

Commonsense Childbirth

Commonsense Childbirth

We are an organization based out of Florida that is doing work nationally to combat racial disparities in Maternal and Child Health. One of the trainings we provide is a comprehensive Maternal-Child Health Community Health Worker Training. I'll attach an outline here. All of our trainings are based on The JJ Way Methodology - developed by Jennie Joseph, and has been proven to reduce racial disparities in the childbearing years.

MCH CHW Course Outline 2021.pdf

This 48-hour comprehensive program provides a combination of community health worker skills and competencies with a special focus on perinatal health. Participants will be prepared to provide life-saving education and support to childbearing parents and families, as well as play a significant role as part of the maternal health care professional team. As ‘perinatal practitioner extenders’ with a firm foundation in maternal child health (MCH), our CHW’s are trained to work in a variety of settings including private practices, birth centers, hospitals, clinics, community settings and homes, building and modeling strong collaborations to establish perinatal networks. They cover all aspects of the childbearing cycle – pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and reproductive health. They are able to teach across the life-course with culturally-congruent and evidence-based information, including demonstrating and modeling health practices and creating liaisons and trusting relationships with other health providers and agencies.

This course stands out from others in that it continually addresses racism in health disparities and racism in health systems, as evidenced by health outcomes and statistics.

Special emphasis will be placed on:

– Safety and quality in maternal health care and support

– Characteristics of health models and health systems

– Barriers to health care services

– Health system navigation and collaboration

– Reproductive and Maternal Justice

– Related community resources

Contact:

Kendra Ippel

Commonsense Childbirth

Director of Educational Programming

kendra@commonsensechildbirth.org

7735782728

pregnancy, childbirth and parenting

TIA PHN

Trauma informed public health nursing visits to parents and children

Julianne Ballard MSN, RN, PHN Liz George BSN, RN, PHN, HNB‐BC, IBCLC Eva Zazueta‐Lara MSN, RN, PHN, NP Laura Turner MHS, MSN, RN, PHN Jesús Aguado Méd. Gral. Jennifer Law BSN, RN, PHN Renée Alger PhD … See fewer authors First published: 09 July 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12634Read the full textPDF TOOLS SHARE

Abstract

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research has demonstrated a strong correlation between a traumatic childhood and poor health and social status in adulthood. Maternal/child Public Health Nursing (PHN) home visiting teams frequently encounter families experiencing trauma, thus offering a unique opportunity to assist parents in recognizing the potential harm such stress may have for their child. The Sonoma County Field Nursing team developed a trauma‐informed model utilizing ACEs education in a self‐reflective approach with parents to increase family resilience and reduce the risk for future childhood trauma. This paper presents the supporting research used to develop the trauma‐informed approach and describes the execution of the model by the Sonoma County Field Nursing team.

Community Health workers are part of the TIA PHN team approach.

Public Health Nursing

Volume36, Issue5

September/October 2019

Pages 694-701

CHW's part of field nursing team that supports pregnant women and their newborns

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