Alameda County Healthy Start Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Program ***

Direct Services

A Healthy Start Program offering home-based casemanagement, assessment and referral services to low income, high risk, culturally diverse pregnant women and new mothers in Alameda county using outreach workers and registerd nurses. 

• Reduction in infant mortality
• Improvement in perinatal risk factors including low birth weight, late entry into prenatal care, preterm births, and maternal substance abuse.
• Empowerment of low-income women and women of color to adopt healthy lifestyles and to address underlying socio-economic factors impacting perinatal health. 
• Improvement of interconceptional health and reduction of risk factors upon the initiation of a subsequent pregnancy
• Increase screening of perinatal depression and improve linkages to the Behavioral Care system.