Lynn Community Health Center
To provide outreach, prenatal education, support and case management for the growing population of African women and children who have come to Lynn through the Refugee program and through secondary migration. The LCHC Somali case manager does outreach and case management with African patients with the goal of getting women into OB services in their first trimester and provide them with ongoing support. Will enroll the families in MCH programs, such as: Medicaid, SCHIP, EIPP, WIC. Aim to reach 50 individuals, Black.
Great Brook Valley Health Center
Develop a prenatal smoking cessation program in an attempt to improve their perinatal outcomes, by using the “5 A’s”. The project provides smoking cessation education, counseling and support to women who smoke. A prenatal smoking cessation educator/counselor trilingual in English/Spanish/Portuguese conducts in-person and phone sessions. Aim to reach 200 Hispanic/Black/other minorities
Prenatal Smoking Cessation Educator/Counselor trilingual in English/Spanish/Portuguese.
Whittier Street Health Center
Launch Boston’s first Stork Nest. This is prenatal education program offered to low-income, expectant Black women in the Roxbury neighborhood. Aim to reach 50 low-income, expectant Black women, including women whose ethnicities are African, African-American, Caribbean, Cape Verdian and Latin American. Implement a Whittier Stork’s Nest (WSN) project adopting March of Dimes Stork nest prenatal education program. Operated in partnership with Boston area chapters of: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority; Pho Pi Zeta; and Delta Onicron Zeta.
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center
Enhance education and support services to high-risk Spanish speaking pregnant women. Provide a series of 5 prenatal classes and one postpartum class for Hispanic women 3 times a year. They use the curriculum from Commenzando Bien. A health care worker performs outreach activities within the Hispanic community including visits and dissemination of information to housing sites, churches and community centers. Aim to reach 50-70 Hispanic women. Provide assistance to these women in obtaining health insurance for their pregnancies, participating in an on-site WIC program, and receiving early and adequate prenatal care.
Past Recipients
Boston Medical Center, Teens & Tots
REACH Community Foundation
South End Community Health Center
 Family Health Center
Worcester Healthy Start Initiative
Dorchester Cares
Neponset Health Center
Island Health Plan/Vineyard Health Care Access Program
Health Care of Southeastern Massachusetts, Inc.
Franklin Community Action Corporation
Oxford Public Schools
Boston Public Health Commission
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
South Cove Community Health Center
Boston Medical Center, Adolescent Center
Aimee Brooks Memorial Scholarship
Bowdoin Street Health Center
People Inc.
Manet Community Health Center, Inc.
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
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