Healthy Births
Last year, more than 14,000 Hillsborough County citizens received services that helped them give birth to healthy, happy newborns. Behind these services stands the Children’s Board’s Healthy Births team which is focused on ensuring pregnant women and their infants have access to prenatal health care, reach full-term healthy births, and have a safe environment in which to raise their babies.
The Healthy Births team continually searches for partnership opportunities and support in the community so that:
- Women preparing to have children are optimally healthy.
- New mothers have healthy, weight-appropriate newborns.
- New mothers have the safety, stability and support they need within their family and community.
- Newborns and infants are optimally healthy and developmentally age appropriate.
Our network of community partners provides support in the areas of:
- Pre-natal education and support
- Labor and delivery support
- Post partum and breast feeding support
- Education and support for new fathers
- Home visitation and case management
- Mentoring and case management to pregnant and parenting teens
- Developmental and emotional screening, assessment and referral services for infants and toddlers
- Parent child interaction education and modeling
- Education regarding immunizations, well-baby checks and regular pediatric care
- Mental health services
- Screening, assessment, referral and treatment for substance abusing women and substance exposed newborns
For more information, contact Slake Counts or Leslie Pokres.
