COMMUNITY HEALH WORKER TRAINING WORKING CONFERENCE Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership, Inc.

EL BARRIO/SPANISH HARLEM

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Our goal as Community health workers is to provide outreach, education, referral and follow-up, case management, advocacy and home visiting services to women who are at highest risk for poor birth outcomes, particularly low-birth weight and infant mortality.

The CHWP is targeted to specific communities with high rates of infant mortality, out-of-wedlock births, late or no prenatal care, teen pregnancies and births, and births to low-income women.

The program's focus is on getting pregnant women into early and consistent prenatal care and ensuring their families receive primary and preventive health care services.

There are 23 programs currently across the state

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Services are provided by paraprofessionals who live in or are familiar with the community.

They create a bridge between providers of health, social and community services and the underserved and hard-to-reach populations within the community.

Community health workers (CHW) are trained to provide basic health education and referrals for a wide range of services, and to provide support and assistance in navigating the health and social services system.

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CHW ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provides services to high risk women living in East Harlem, to decrease poor birth outcomes, mainly low-birth weight and infant mortality.

Home visits Health Education Case management Referrals Follow-ups Advocacy In zip codes 10029-10035

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•Street Outreach •Shelters •Hospitals•Health Fairs•Beauty salons •Nail salons•Community Agencies etc.

To conduct intensive outreach efforts to pregnant women, including pregnant women who are uninsured, underinsured and are not involved in prenatal, health or other community services, and other high risk populations living in the target area to help get these women into prenatal and other health care services. We also provide services to other high risk populations living in the East Harlem area such as post partum women and parenting women with children up to one year old.

From the beginning of their pregnancy Throughout infant's

first year of life.

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CHW works to develop a relationship with the family during monthly home visits.

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Health Education

One on one Health

Education at client’s home

Educational Workshops

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We educate women on:

•HIV/AIDS Mother-to-Child transmission during pregnancy and Safer sex practices after delivery

•Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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•Post Partum Depression

•Prenatal Depression

Oral Heath

Nutrition

Exercise

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Breastfeeding

Lead PoisoningPrevention

• Immunization &• Children Medical

Care

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Substance Abuse Domestic Violence

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Family Planning

Ages and Stages Questionnaires(ASQ)

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•We assess families, to identify their needs and set goals (short/long term).

•Using a strength base approach we help them to overcome obstacles, such as language barriers, lack of services, etc.

It can be issues as completing high school education, learning a new language or teach them how to fill out a form.

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In addition, we assist families with application, procedures and escorts to different services such as Medicaid, Child Health Plus, Food stamps, WIC, etc.

Our goal is to help families to develop the necessary skills and find the needed resources to help them improve their health status, family functioning and promote self-sufficiency.

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We participate in community Events

Sickle cell walk

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Keep clients engaged in our program is not easy, we encounter challenges that we are able to overcome by :

Being creative(budget) Providing Support Groups Organizing Pampering Day’s Participating in Health Fairs Organizing Mother Day Celebrations

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Pampering Day

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Family Day

MOTHER’S DAY CELEBRATION

Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership, Inc.

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Mother’s Day celebration

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Support Group Graduation

Programa de Promotoras de Salud ComunitariaCommunity Health Worker Program

104-106 East 126th Street 4FlNew York, NY 10035

Tel.212-289-8800 Fax. 212-289-8250

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“Helping families one at a time”.