Services

We provide health education, outreach, and case management services to pregnant and/or parenting first time mothers, mothers with high risk medical and/or social factors, mothers who have delivered a low birth weight or very low birth weight infant and women who began prenatal care in the 3rd trimester.

Health Educators offer Sexually Transmitted Infections, Child Birth and Breastfeeding Education. Outreach workers provide services to those who are most difficult to reach. Trained outreach workers go door to door and to other community locations (e.g. Laundromats, churches, hair salons, shopping centers or malls and family practices). LCHS Outreach Workers are included in the case management program. Case Managers include Masters prepared social workers who conduct ongoing home visits, complete psychosocial assessments and screen families for depression, domestic violence, alcohol, drugs, smoking, and perinatal infections. Perinatal Resource Coordinators provide maternal and infant education and support to help young mothers by assisting them in navigating fragmented and complicated perinatal systems. Families are also assisted in understanding the stages of pregnancy, labor, delivery and caring for an infant or toddler.

Interconceptional Care: Program Participants receive home visits after the delivery of their baby and receive preconception and parenting education. Participants are assisted in identifying a medical home and during this time, an emphasis is placed on her family planning needs, educational and career goals. Participants receive resume writing skills, assistance in completing school and financial applications, transportation and child care services.

Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: These meetings are held with Certified Nurse Midwives, Family Nurse Practitioners, and Medical Office Assistants. Participants' medical concerns, compliance with medical instructions, as well as barriers to and gaps in services are discussed.

Care Coordination Meetings: Monthly meetings are held in collaboration with local health department staff. LCHS case managers, and outreach workers meet with health department staff to update information on clients referred to LCHS, to discuss gaps and barriers to services and make recommendations which help to decrease duplication of services. During these meetings LCHS staff receives information about all available services offered at the health departments.

Perinatal Consumer Group: Meetings are held monthly in the form of a support group where participants learn and share with each other about the health status of their community as well as themselves. This is also a time when families learn socialization and empowerment skills.

Women’s Wellness Support Group: Masters prepared social workers organize and facilitate support groups for program participants who score 12 or above on the Edinburgh Depression Screening Tool. Group participants discuss alternative ways to handle stress.

Consortium: Participants represent agencies and organization such as local hospitals, county health departments, social services, community health centers, faith community, consumers, transportation providers, local and state policy makers, alcohol and drug abuse treatment providers, Perinatal providers and school districts. Meetings are held quarterly to discuss Perinatal challenges, accomplishments, updates.

Perinatal Provider Advisory Group: This fifteen (15) member group represents obstetric providers, pediatric providers, certified nurse midwives, and family practices. Meetings are held twice a year for the purpose of providing LCHS with specific clinical input into the needs of clients participating in the program. Gaps and barriers that exist within health centers, family practices or hospital setting preventing teens, pregnant, and postpartum women from receiving timely appointments, risk appropriate care and follow up care are discussed.