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Designed to provide the latest medical evidence and offer real, honest stories to inform postpartum planning.
Toolkit
Assists victims of human trafficking by providing emergency shelter, case management, and medical counseling.
Program
Behavioral health services, therapeutic foster homes, medication management, and ABA therapy for autism.
Program
Provides prenatal support for mothers to help improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce health disparities.
Program
Provides intake and referrals for mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities services for children and adults.
Program
A diaper bank that works in partnership with community-based organizations to provide diapering supplies for families facing diaper need in Western North Carolina
Program
Free drop-in group for parents providing breast milk. A Lactation Consultant will be present to help answer questions and offer support with feeding. Meets every Monday morning from 11 AM to 12 PM in the Community Room of the Behavioral Health Center at Duke Regional Hospital. Masked required.
Program
This one-hour online course will review evidence-based strategies to increase breastfeeding for healthy full-term infants. There is no charge for this online course.
Webinar
Works with birthing people and healthcare workers to learn how collaboration can help everyone work together better. Seeks to make healthcare workers and healthcare systems safer and build trust between birthing people and healthcare workers. The goal is to make the healthcare system better so that every birthing person and healthcare worker is treated with respect and care.
Organization
Free, respectful support for all new and expecting parents in North Carolina, from pregnancy and childbirth through post-partum.
Program
Provides free or low-cost breast and cervical cancer screenings and follow-up to eligible women in North Carolina.
Program
A health equity advocacy group located in Durham, NC. Dedicated to helping every family understand the benefits of breastfeeding so that they are able to make informed decisions that are right for them. Works to ensure that all families have equitable access to healthcare, breastfeeding support resources, and education.
Organization
Composed of a wide variety of members including parents, advocates for community change, artists, and professionals in medicine, social work, education, mental health, and public health who are collaborating to address this important topic.
Program
Working to increase awareness about ACEs in Western North Carolina in order to change systems to be trauma-informed and to build community resilience.
Program
The Medicaid program currently offers a set of care management services for at-risk children ages zero-to-five. The program coordinates services between healthcare providers, community programs and supports, and family support programs. Care Management for At-Risk Children (CMARC) is provided by the local health departments.
Program
CMHRP is a North Carolina Medicaid program that provides free care management services for women at risk for a poor birth outcome. CMHRP Services are initiated based on information obtained from the standardized screening tool administered to all pregnant Medicaid and Medicaid eligible recipients during their first prenatal visit. Other referral options include self-referral, risk stratification, or direct referrals from providers or community agencies such as WIC or DSS.
Program
Mental health services for children and families exposed to violence, including abuse and domestic violence.
Program
Provides free referral services to families seeking child care, financial assistance to families who cannot afford quality child care, technical assistance to child care businesses, and educational scholarships and salary supplements to child care professionals.
Program
An open house youth shelter and safe place to stay for children aged 6-18 years. Provides basic needs as well as counseling services and vocational opportunities.
Program
Services include career and financial education, domestic violence crisis and prevention programs, assistance with legal resources, and youth health programs.
Program
Promoting healing, hope, and empowerment by providing comprehensive health, counseling, and education services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents and women, mothers, and their babies in the foster care system.
Program
At Dad to Dudla, we focus on advocating, educating, empowering, and supporting from a dad’s perspective.
Organization
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
Distributes diapers to community partners in an effort to ensure all families with babies and young children have adequate supplies of diapers and other basic hygiene necessities.
Program
A support network just for moms in Durham, NC. Find playdates and a playgroup for your kids and get connected with local moms.
Program
Mental health services designed for Latino families, with walk-in appointments available.
Program
Seeks to ensure successful and equitable birth outcomes for women and babies in Chatham County, NC, through system and service alignment with local partners. The proposed project is an outcomes-focused initiative launched out of ongoing efforts in the county to work collaboratively across sectors to address the root causes of the county’s most pressing health disparities.
Program
Emerald Doulas was born out of the need to create a cohesive, personalized, and inclusive community for new and expectant families in and around Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh, NC. Combining their years of experience supporting and nurturing new parents and their newborns as solo doulas, founders Melanie Patrick and Ashley Collins are proud to have created the North Carolina Trangle’s first full service and comprehensive Doula Agency, which opened in January 2016.
Organization
Composed of mothers, sisters, community members, and justice advocates working to make the world a better place. Partners with BIPOC-led organizations that already serve the target population to provide families with direct services.
Organization
Several programs for parenting support at various ages from birth through adolescence.
Program
Provides families with children a stable, safe, and loving environment while they are in the temporary crisis of homelessness. Offers after-school tutoring, educational enrichment programming, and early interventions.
Program
Domestic violence and sexual assault agency offering training, empowerment services, emergency shelter placement, individual advocacy and counseling, and court and hospital advocacy. 24-hour crisis line in English and Spanish.
Program
Family Connects Durham (formerly Durham Connects) is a community-wide nurse home visiting program for all parents of newborns, regardless of income or socioeconomic status.
Program
Emergency shelter for homeless families with children under 17 years, transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse.
Program
When a child is born prematurely or diagnosed with a disability, a family's world can be turned upside-down. Our mission is to provide support, education, and caring connections to families who have a child with special needs or who have experienced a NICU stay.
Program
Offers substance abuse intensive outpatient programs (SAIOP) for children and adults.
Program
The Health Equity Coalition collaborates with partners across WNC to address the social determinants of health and to advocate for transformative philanthropic investment.
Program
An entity to lead Western North Carolina's participation in NC's Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program for Medicaid (using Medicaid dollars to support upstream social determinants of health such as housing, transportation, nutrition, and interpersonal safety to reduce clinical interventions).
Organization
A nonprofit organization offering parenting education and resources, childcare, and a school readiness program for young children. Committed to addressing structural barriers that prevent children and their families from reaching their full potential.
Organization
This initiative aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve the health status of children ages 0-5. The counties will work with a local community action team (CAT) they develop to implement the evidence-based strategies utilizing a collective impact approach with a health equity lens.
Program
Provides substance abuse and mental health services in more than 50 counties across North Carolina.
Organization
Youth after school and working program for low-income families. Teaches life skills and vocational skills.
Program
Helping mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education.
Program
An enhanced Doula training program that seeks to improve Black women’s maternal and birth outcomes and increase their overall birth satisfaction by providing access to social, emotional, and educational support from a professionally trained Black Doula.
Program
Free legal advice and counseling on civil matters for low-income Durham families and individuals, including issues of domestic violence, housing, government benefits, and healthcare.
Program
Pregnancy and post-partum support groups and resources for mothers in Charlotte, NC, and Mecklenburg County.
Organization, Toolkit, Webinar
Providing compassionate, non-judgmental, gender-inclusive care to anyone seeking abortion in Asheville and surrounding areas.
Program
A statewide psychiatric access program that supports healthcare professionals treating perinatal patients through professional development, psychiatric consultation, and connecting patients with behavioral health resources.
Program, Toolkit, Webinar
Many North Carolinians struggle every day with food insecurity, housing instability, lack of transportation access, or other non-medical social needs. NCCARE360 is the first statewide coordinated care network that better connects individuals to local services and resources.
Program
The Child and Family Wellness Unit hosts the evidence-based program, Triple P, which helps all North Carolina children to grow, develop, and be healthy by providing interventions for parents who need assistance with child-rearing, including tips and strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Program
An evidence-based community health program partnering mothers with a registered nurse early in pregnancy for ongoing nurse home visits that continue through the child's second birthday.
Program
Newborn screening for sickle cell disease, genetic counseling, case management, and summer camps for children.
Program
A non-profit that provides free civil legal aid to the most vulnerable people in Western North Carolina: disadvantaged children, at-risk families, victims of domestic violence, and seniors.
Organization
Postpartum Resource Center of the Triad is focused on improving the mental health well-being of moms, dads, and partners during pregnancy and postpartum.
Organization
Project CARA provides gender-specific, trauma-informed, substance use treatment and perinatal care in one comprehensive program to ensure pregnant and parenting women can access the quality Ob/Gyn care and substance use treatment they deserve.
Program
A nonprofit whose mission is to provide period products to women and girls in Hendersonville and surrounding areas who might be homeless, low-income, or victims of domestic abuse.
Program
Supporting women of color and breastfeeding in Charlotte, NC, and surrounding areas.
Program
Program that partners with pediatric and family medicine offices to provide books at well-child care visits up to 5 years to promote child development, parent/child bonding, and literacy.
Program
Teen pregnancy support. Offers counseling, community resources, education, and mentoring.
Program
Pregnancy preparedness program. Offers child health education and pregnancy education with a focus on maternal and baby health.
Program
Full-spectrum community birthwork and breastfeeding support for the entire Cherokee family.
Other
A free program that supports and educates parents about normal child development, how to get involved with their child’s education, and promotes reading together.
Program
Seeks to increase the health and well-being of young children ages 0-5, building the foundation for all future learning by improving children’s early care and education programs, providing parents with tools that support them, and ensuring that children have access to preventive healthcare. Each county in North Carolina has local SmartStart partners with different initiatives.
Program
Offers help to people affected by unemployment by providing coaching, training workshops, résumé writing, time management, and communication skills among other things to empower and prepare them to get jobs that they are passionate about.
Program
The basics are five evidence-based parenting and caregiving principles that encompass much of what experts find is important for children ages 0-3 in order to promote positive development and maximize the early childhood time period.
Toolkit
A child advocacy center that supports children who are victims of physical or sexual abuse and then coordinates the investigation, prosecution, and treatment.
Program
Free education and support to people who are affected by mental illness and/or addiction.
Program
The Tides' mission is to keep the mother-child dyad intact by engaging pregnant women with opioid use disorder in the recovery process. Located in Wilmington, NC, it serves the women of the surrounding area.
Program
A free program designed to improve the health of women before, during, and after pregnancy; improve father/male partner involvement; address health disparities; and build community capacity for healthier babies.
Program
Organizes and facilitates community-based, peer support groups for new parents across the Triangle area in North Carolina.
Program
A doula agency providing pregnancy support, birth doula services, postpartum doula services, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding classes, lactation consultation, and a mom's group to build community among mothers and families in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas of North Carolina.
Organization
Provides a safe space for mothers of color to connect and discuss topics relevant to their experience. It is also a platform for building relationships through mom’s group meet-ups and events in the Triangle Area of NC.
Other
A substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their children, including those whose lives have been touched by abuse and violence. The trauma-informed model of care focuses on both the mother and the child to heal the whole family and create systems of hope and renewal.
Program
Evidence-based resources for both patients and maternity care providers.
Toolkit
Free clothes for children ages 0-5, families can visit six times a year. They also have a crib and car seat program.
Program
Outpatient program located in Asheville, NC, to support women in recovery. Offers care under trained specialists who have experience dealing with trauma and other adversities that are specifically challenging for both teen and adult women.
Program
A mother-to-mother support group for pregnant and postpartum moms who are struggling with mood disorders. Meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Please contact Nancy Albrecht for more details at 919-933-3301 or nancy@ncbirthcenter.org.
Program
This program supports comprehensive tobacco use screening and cessation counseling for women of reproductive age before, between, and beyond pregnancy.
Program
Assists victims of human trafficking by providing emergency shelter, case management, and medical counseling.
Program
Mental health services for children and families exposed to violence, including abuse and domestic violence.
Program
An open house youth shelter and safe place to stay for children aged 6-18 years. Provides basic needs as well as counseling services and vocational opportunities.
Program
Services include career and financial education, domestic violence crisis and prevention programs, assistance with legal resources, and youth health programs.
Program
Domestic violence and sexual assault agency offering training, empowerment services, emergency shelter placement, individual advocacy and counseling, and court and hospital advocacy. 24-hour crisis line in English and Spanish.
Program
Emergency shelter for homeless families with children under 17 years, transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse.
Program
A nonprofit whose mission is to provide period products to women and girls in Hendersonville and surrounding areas who might be homeless, low-income, or victims of domestic abuse.
Program
A child advocacy center that supports children who are victims of physical or sexual abuse and then coordinates the investigation, prosecution, and treatment.
Program
A substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their children, including those whose lives have been touched by abuse and violence. The trauma-informed model of care focuses on both the mother and the child to heal the whole family and create systems of hope and renewal.
Program
Behavioral health services, therapeutic foster homes, medication management, and ABA therapy for autism.
Program
Provides intake and referrals for mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities services for children and adults.
Program
Composed of a wide variety of members including parents, advocates for community change, artists, and professionals in medicine, social work, education, mental health, and public health who are collaborating to address this important topic.
Program
Working to increase awareness about ACEs in Western North Carolina in order to change systems to be trauma-informed and to build community resilience.
Program
Mental health services for children and families exposed to violence, including abuse and domestic violence.
Program
Promoting healing, hope, and empowerment by providing comprehensive health, counseling, and education services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents and women, mothers, and their babies in the foster care system.
Program
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
Mental health services designed for Latino families, with walk-in appointments available.
Program
Domestic violence and sexual assault agency offering training, empowerment services, emergency shelter placement, individual advocacy and counseling, and court and hospital advocacy. 24-hour crisis line in English and Spanish.
Program
Offers substance abuse intensive outpatient programs (SAIOP) for children and adults.
Program
Provides substance abuse and mental health services in more than 50 counties across North Carolina.
Organization
A statewide psychiatric access program that supports healthcare professionals treating perinatal patients through professional development, psychiatric consultation, and connecting patients with behavioral health resources.
Program, Toolkit, Webinar
Postpartum Resource Center of the Triad is focused on improving the mental health well-being of moms, dads, and partners during pregnancy and postpartum.
Organization
Free education and support to people who are affected by mental illness and/or addiction.
Program
Outpatient program located in Asheville, NC, to support women in recovery. Offers care under trained specialists who have experience dealing with trauma and other adversities that are specifically challenging for both teen and adult women.
Program
A mother-to-mother support group for pregnant and postpartum moms who are struggling with mood disorders. Meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Please contact Nancy Albrecht for more details at 919-933-3301 or nancy@ncbirthcenter.org.
Program
Designed to provide the latest medical evidence and offer real, honest stories to inform postpartum planning.
Toolkit
Behavioral health services, therapeutic foster homes, medication management, and ABA therapy for autism.
Program
A diaper bank that works in partnership with community-based organizations to provide diapering supplies for families facing diaper need in Western North Carolina
Program
Free drop-in group for parents providing breast milk. A Lactation Consultant will be present to help answer questions and offer support with feeding. Meets every Monday morning from 11 AM to 12 PM in the Community Room of the Behavioral Health Center at Duke Regional Hospital. Masked required.
Program
This one-hour online course will review evidence-based strategies to increase breastfeeding for healthy full-term infants. There is no charge for this online course.
Webinar
Free, respectful support for all new and expecting parents in North Carolina, from pregnancy and childbirth through post-partum.
Program
A health equity advocacy group located in Durham, NC. Dedicated to helping every family understand the benefits of breastfeeding so that they are able to make informed decisions that are right for them. Works to ensure that all families have equitable access to healthcare, breastfeeding support resources, and education.
Organization
The Medicaid program currently offers a set of care management services for at-risk children ages zero-to-five. The program coordinates services between healthcare providers, community programs and supports, and family support programs. Care Management for At-Risk Children (CMARC) is provided by the local health departments.
Program
Mental health services for children and families exposed to violence, including abuse and domestic violence.
Program
An open house youth shelter and safe place to stay for children aged 6-18 years. Provides basic needs as well as counseling services and vocational opportunities.
Program
Promoting healing, hope, and empowerment by providing comprehensive health, counseling, and education services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents and women, mothers, and their babies in the foster care system.
Program
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
Distributes diapers to community partners in an effort to ensure all families with babies and young children have adequate supplies of diapers and other basic hygiene necessities.
Program
Seeks to ensure successful and equitable birth outcomes for women and babies in Chatham County, NC, through system and service alignment with local partners. The proposed project is an outcomes-focused initiative launched out of ongoing efforts in the county to work collaboratively across sectors to address the root causes of the county’s most pressing health disparities.
Program
Emerald Doulas was born out of the need to create a cohesive, personalized, and inclusive community for new and expectant families in and around Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh, NC. Combining their years of experience supporting and nurturing new parents and their newborns as solo doulas, founders Melanie Patrick and Ashley Collins are proud to have created the North Carolina Trangle’s first full service and comprehensive Doula Agency, which opened in January 2016.
Organization
Several programs for parenting support at various ages from birth through adolescence.
Program
Family Connects Durham (formerly Durham Connects) is a community-wide nurse home visiting program for all parents of newborns, regardless of income or socioeconomic status.
Program
Emergency shelter for homeless families with children under 17 years, transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse.
Program
When a child is born prematurely or diagnosed with a disability, a family's world can be turned upside-down. Our mission is to provide support, education, and caring connections to families who have a child with special needs or who have experienced a NICU stay.
Program
Offers substance abuse intensive outpatient programs (SAIOP) for children and adults.
Program
A nonprofit organization offering parenting education and resources, childcare, and a school readiness program for young children. Committed to addressing structural barriers that prevent children and their families from reaching their full potential.
Organization
This initiative aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve the health status of children ages 0-5. The counties will work with a local community action team (CAT) they develop to implement the evidence-based strategies utilizing a collective impact approach with a health equity lens.
Program
A statewide psychiatric access program that supports healthcare professionals treating perinatal patients through professional development, psychiatric consultation, and connecting patients with behavioral health resources.
Program, Toolkit, Webinar
Many North Carolinians struggle every day with food insecurity, housing instability, lack of transportation access, or other non-medical social needs. NCCARE360 is the first statewide coordinated care network that better connects individuals to local services and resources.
Program
The Child and Family Wellness Unit hosts the evidence-based program, Triple P, which helps all North Carolina children to grow, develop, and be healthy by providing interventions for parents who need assistance with child-rearing, including tips and strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Program
An evidence-based community health program partnering mothers with a registered nurse early in pregnancy for ongoing nurse home visits that continue through the child's second birthday.
Program
Newborn screening for sickle cell disease, genetic counseling, case management, and summer camps for children.
Program
Project CARA provides gender-specific, trauma-informed, substance use treatment and perinatal care in one comprehensive program to ensure pregnant and parenting women can access the quality Ob/Gyn care and substance use treatment they deserve.
Program
Supporting women of color and breastfeeding in Charlotte, NC, and surrounding areas.
Program
Program that partners with pediatric and family medicine offices to provide books at well-child care visits up to 5 years to promote child development, parent/child bonding, and literacy.
Program
Teen pregnancy support. Offers counseling, community resources, education, and mentoring.
Program
Pregnancy preparedness program. Offers child health education and pregnancy education with a focus on maternal and baby health.
Program
A free program that supports and educates parents about normal child development, how to get involved with their child’s education, and promotes reading together.
Program
Seeks to increase the health and well-being of young children ages 0-5, building the foundation for all future learning by improving children’s early care and education programs, providing parents with tools that support them, and ensuring that children have access to preventive healthcare. Each county in North Carolina has local SmartStart partners with different initiatives.
Program
The basics are five evidence-based parenting and caregiving principles that encompass much of what experts find is important for children ages 0-3 in order to promote positive development and maximize the early childhood time period.
Toolkit
A child advocacy center that supports children who are victims of physical or sexual abuse and then coordinates the investigation, prosecution, and treatment.
Program
The Tides' mission is to keep the mother-child dyad intact by engaging pregnant women with opioid use disorder in the recovery process. Located in Wilmington, NC, it serves the women of the surrounding area.
Program
A free program designed to improve the health of women before, during, and after pregnancy; improve father/male partner involvement; address health disparities; and build community capacity for healthier babies.
Program
A doula agency providing pregnancy support, birth doula services, postpartum doula services, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding classes, lactation consultation, and a mom's group to build community among mothers and families in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas of North Carolina.
Organization
Provides a safe space for mothers of color to connect and discuss topics relevant to their experience. It is also a platform for building relationships through mom’s group meet-ups and events in the Triangle Area of NC.
Other
A substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their children, including those whose lives have been touched by abuse and violence. The trauma-informed model of care focuses on both the mother and the child to heal the whole family and create systems of hope and renewal.
Program
Evidence-based resources for both patients and maternity care providers.
Toolkit
Free clothes for children ages 0-5, families can visit six times a year. They also have a crib and car seat program.
Program
This program supports comprehensive tobacco use screening and cessation counseling for women of reproductive age before, between, and beyond pregnancy.
Program
Provides prenatal support for mothers to help improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce health disparities.
Program
Works with birthing people and healthcare workers to learn how collaboration can help everyone work together better. Seeks to make healthcare workers and healthcare systems safer and build trust between birthing people and healthcare workers. The goal is to make the healthcare system better so that every birthing person and healthcare worker is treated with respect and care.
Organization
The Medicaid program currently offers a set of care management services for at-risk children ages zero-to-five. The program coordinates services between healthcare providers, community programs and supports, and family support programs. Care Management for At-Risk Children (CMARC) is provided by the local health departments.
Program
CMHRP is a North Carolina Medicaid program that provides free care management services for women at risk for a poor birth outcome. CMHRP Services are initiated based on information obtained from the standardized screening tool administered to all pregnant Medicaid and Medicaid eligible recipients during their first prenatal visit. Other referral options include self-referral, risk stratification, or direct referrals from providers or community agencies such as WIC or DSS.
Program
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
Mental health services designed for Latino families, with walk-in appointments available.
Program
Seeks to ensure successful and equitable birth outcomes for women and babies in Chatham County, NC, through system and service alignment with local partners. The proposed project is an outcomes-focused initiative launched out of ongoing efforts in the county to work collaboratively across sectors to address the root causes of the county’s most pressing health disparities.
Program
Composed of mothers, sisters, community members, and justice advocates working to make the world a better place. Partners with BIPOC-led organizations that already serve the target population to provide families with direct services.
Organization
Domestic violence and sexual assault agency offering training, empowerment services, emergency shelter placement, individual advocacy and counseling, and court and hospital advocacy. 24-hour crisis line in English and Spanish.
Program
The Health Equity Coalition collaborates with partners across WNC to address the social determinants of health and to advocate for transformative philanthropic investment.
Program
An entity to lead Western North Carolina's participation in NC's Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program for Medicaid (using Medicaid dollars to support upstream social determinants of health such as housing, transportation, nutrition, and interpersonal safety to reduce clinical interventions).
Organization
A nonprofit organization offering parenting education and resources, childcare, and a school readiness program for young children. Committed to addressing structural barriers that prevent children and their families from reaching their full potential.
Organization
This initiative aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve the health status of children ages 0-5. The counties will work with a local community action team (CAT) they develop to implement the evidence-based strategies utilizing a collective impact approach with a health equity lens.
Program
Youth after school and working program for low-income families. Teaches life skills and vocational skills.
Program
An enhanced Doula training program that seeks to improve Black women’s maternal and birth outcomes and increase their overall birth satisfaction by providing access to social, emotional, and educational support from a professionally trained Black Doula.
Program
Providing compassionate, non-judgmental, gender-inclusive care to anyone seeking abortion in Asheville and surrounding areas.
Program
Many North Carolinians struggle every day with food insecurity, housing instability, lack of transportation access, or other non-medical social needs. NCCARE360 is the first statewide coordinated care network that better connects individuals to local services and resources.
Program
A non-profit that provides free civil legal aid to the most vulnerable people in Western North Carolina: disadvantaged children, at-risk families, victims of domestic violence, and seniors.
Organization
Supporting women of color and breastfeeding in Charlotte, NC, and surrounding areas.
Program
Program that partners with pediatric and family medicine offices to provide books at well-child care visits up to 5 years to promote child development, parent/child bonding, and literacy.
Program
Full-spectrum community birthwork and breastfeeding support for the entire Cherokee family.
Other
A free program that supports and educates parents about normal child development, how to get involved with their child’s education, and promotes reading together.
Program
Seeks to increase the health and well-being of young children ages 0-5, building the foundation for all future learning by improving children’s early care and education programs, providing parents with tools that support them, and ensuring that children have access to preventive healthcare. Each county in North Carolina has local SmartStart partners with different initiatives.
Program
A doula agency providing pregnancy support, birth doula services, postpartum doula services, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding classes, lactation consultation, and a mom's group to build community among mothers and families in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas of North Carolina.
Organization
Provides a safe space for mothers of color to connect and discuss topics relevant to their experience. It is also a platform for building relationships through mom’s group meet-ups and events in the Triangle Area of NC.
Other
A diaper bank that works in partnership with community-based organizations to provide diapering supplies for families facing diaper need in Western North Carolina
Program
Provides free or low-cost breast and cervical cancer screenings and follow-up to eligible women in North Carolina.
Program
The Medicaid program currently offers a set of care management services for at-risk children ages zero-to-five. The program coordinates services between healthcare providers, community programs and supports, and family support programs. Care Management for At-Risk Children (CMARC) is provided by the local health departments.
Program
CMHRP is a North Carolina Medicaid program that provides free care management services for women at risk for a poor birth outcome. CMHRP Services are initiated based on information obtained from the standardized screening tool administered to all pregnant Medicaid and Medicaid eligible recipients during their first prenatal visit. Other referral options include self-referral, risk stratification, or direct referrals from providers or community agencies such as WIC or DSS.
Program
Provides free referral services to families seeking child care, financial assistance to families who cannot afford quality child care, technical assistance to child care businesses, and educational scholarships and salary supplements to child care professionals.
Program
Distributes diapers to community partners in an effort to ensure all families with babies and young children have adequate supplies of diapers and other basic hygiene necessities.
Program
Provides families with children a stable, safe, and loving environment while they are in the temporary crisis of homelessness. Offers after-school tutoring, educational enrichment programming, and early interventions.
Program
Family Connects Durham (formerly Durham Connects) is a community-wide nurse home visiting program for all parents of newborns, regardless of income or socioeconomic status.
Program
An entity to lead Western North Carolina's participation in NC's Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program for Medicaid (using Medicaid dollars to support upstream social determinants of health such as housing, transportation, nutrition, and interpersonal safety to reduce clinical interventions).
Organization
A nonprofit organization offering parenting education and resources, childcare, and a school readiness program for young children. Committed to addressing structural barriers that prevent children and their families from reaching their full potential.
Organization
Youth after school and working program for low-income families. Teaches life skills and vocational skills.
Program
Free legal advice and counseling on civil matters for low-income Durham families and individuals, including issues of domestic violence, housing, government benefits, and healthcare.
Program
Many North Carolinians struggle every day with food insecurity, housing instability, lack of transportation access, or other non-medical social needs. NCCARE360 is the first statewide coordinated care network that better connects individuals to local services and resources.
Program
A non-profit that provides free civil legal aid to the most vulnerable people in Western North Carolina: disadvantaged children, at-risk families, victims of domestic violence, and seniors.
Organization
A nonprofit whose mission is to provide period products to women and girls in Hendersonville and surrounding areas who might be homeless, low-income, or victims of domestic abuse.
Program
Offers help to people affected by unemployment by providing coaching, training workshops, résumé writing, time management, and communication skills among other things to empower and prepare them to get jobs that they are passionate about.
Program
Free clothes for children ages 0-5, families can visit six times a year. They also have a crib and car seat program.
Program
Provides prenatal support for mothers to help improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce health disparities.
Program
Free drop-in group for parents providing breast milk. A Lactation Consultant will be present to help answer questions and offer support with feeding. Meets every Monday morning from 11 AM to 12 PM in the Community Room of the Behavioral Health Center at Duke Regional Hospital. Masked required.
Program
This one-hour online course will review evidence-based strategies to increase breastfeeding for healthy full-term infants. There is no charge for this online course.
Webinar
Works with birthing people and healthcare workers to learn how collaboration can help everyone work together better. Seeks to make healthcare workers and healthcare systems safer and build trust between birthing people and healthcare workers. The goal is to make the healthcare system better so that every birthing person and healthcare worker is treated with respect and care.
Organization
Free, respectful support for all new and expecting parents in North Carolina, from pregnancy and childbirth through post-partum.
Program
A health equity advocacy group located in Durham, NC. Dedicated to helping every family understand the benefits of breastfeeding so that they are able to make informed decisions that are right for them. Works to ensure that all families have equitable access to healthcare, breastfeeding support resources, and education.
Organization
CMHRP is a North Carolina Medicaid program that provides free care management services for women at risk for a poor birth outcome. CMHRP Services are initiated based on information obtained from the standardized screening tool administered to all pregnant Medicaid and Medicaid eligible recipients during their first prenatal visit. Other referral options include self-referral, risk stratification, or direct referrals from providers or community agencies such as WIC or DSS.
Program
Promoting healing, hope, and empowerment by providing comprehensive health, counseling, and education services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents and women, mothers, and their babies in the foster care system.
Program
At Dad to Dudla, we focus on advocating, educating, empowering, and supporting from a dad’s perspective.
Organization
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
Seeks to ensure successful and equitable birth outcomes for women and babies in Chatham County, NC, through system and service alignment with local partners. The proposed project is an outcomes-focused initiative launched out of ongoing efforts in the county to work collaboratively across sectors to address the root causes of the county’s most pressing health disparities.
Program
Emerald Doulas was born out of the need to create a cohesive, personalized, and inclusive community for new and expectant families in and around Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh, NC. Combining their years of experience supporting and nurturing new parents and their newborns as solo doulas, founders Melanie Patrick and Ashley Collins are proud to have created the North Carolina Trangle’s first full service and comprehensive Doula Agency, which opened in January 2016.
Organization
Composed of mothers, sisters, community members, and justice advocates working to make the world a better place. Partners with BIPOC-led organizations that already serve the target population to provide families with direct services.
Organization
An enhanced Doula training program that seeks to improve Black women’s maternal and birth outcomes and increase their overall birth satisfaction by providing access to social, emotional, and educational support from a professionally trained Black Doula.
Program
Pregnancy and post-partum support groups and resources for mothers in Charlotte, NC, and Mecklenburg County.
Organization, Toolkit, Webinar
A statewide psychiatric access program that supports healthcare professionals treating perinatal patients through professional development, psychiatric consultation, and connecting patients with behavioral health resources.
Program, Toolkit, Webinar
Many North Carolinians struggle every day with food insecurity, housing instability, lack of transportation access, or other non-medical social needs. NCCARE360 is the first statewide coordinated care network that better connects individuals to local services and resources.
Program
An evidence-based community health program partnering mothers with a registered nurse early in pregnancy for ongoing nurse home visits that continue through the child's second birthday.
Program
Postpartum Resource Center of the Triad is focused on improving the mental health well-being of moms, dads, and partners during pregnancy and postpartum.
Organization
Project CARA provides gender-specific, trauma-informed, substance use treatment and perinatal care in one comprehensive program to ensure pregnant and parenting women can access the quality Ob/Gyn care and substance use treatment they deserve.
Program
Supporting women of color and breastfeeding in Charlotte, NC, and surrounding areas.
Program
Teen pregnancy support. Offers counseling, community resources, education, and mentoring.
Program
Pregnancy preparedness program. Offers child health education and pregnancy education with a focus on maternal and baby health.
Program
Full-spectrum community birthwork and breastfeeding support for the entire Cherokee family.
Other
The Tides' mission is to keep the mother-child dyad intact by engaging pregnant women with opioid use disorder in the recovery process. Located in Wilmington, NC, it serves the women of the surrounding area.
Program
A free program designed to improve the health of women before, during, and after pregnancy; improve father/male partner involvement; address health disparities; and build community capacity for healthier babies.
Program
A doula agency providing pregnancy support, birth doula services, postpartum doula services, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding classes, lactation consultation, and a mom's group to build community among mothers and families in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas of North Carolina.
Organization
Provides a safe space for mothers of color to connect and discuss topics relevant to their experience. It is also a platform for building relationships through mom’s group meet-ups and events in the Triangle Area of NC.
Other
A substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their children, including those whose lives have been touched by abuse and violence. The trauma-informed model of care focuses on both the mother and the child to heal the whole family and create systems of hope and renewal.
Program
Evidence-based resources for both patients and maternity care providers.
Toolkit
A mother-to-mother support group for pregnant and postpartum moms who are struggling with mood disorders. Meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Please contact Nancy Albrecht for more details at 919-933-3301 or nancy@ncbirthcenter.org.
Program
This program supports comprehensive tobacco use screening and cessation counseling for women of reproductive age before, between, and beyond pregnancy.
Program
Designed to provide the latest medical evidence and offer real, honest stories to inform postpartum planning.
Toolkit
Provides free or low-cost breast and cervical cancer screenings and follow-up to eligible women in North Carolina.
Program
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
This initiative aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve the health status of children ages 0-5. The counties will work with a local community action team (CAT) they develop to implement the evidence-based strategies utilizing a collective impact approach with a health equity lens.
Program
Providing compassionate, non-judgmental, gender-inclusive care to anyone seeking abortion in Asheville and surrounding areas.
Program
A nonprofit whose mission is to provide period products to women and girls in Hendersonville and surrounding areas who might be homeless, low-income, or victims of domestic abuse.
Program
Evidence-based resources for both patients and maternity care providers.
Toolkit
Provides intake and referrals for mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities services for children and adults.
Program
Offers substance abuse intensive outpatient programs (SAIOP) for children and adults.
Program
Provides substance abuse and mental health services in more than 50 counties across North Carolina.
Organization
Project CARA provides gender-specific, trauma-informed, substance use treatment and perinatal care in one comprehensive program to ensure pregnant and parenting women can access the quality Ob/Gyn care and substance use treatment they deserve.
Program
Free education and support to people who are affected by mental illness and/or addiction.
Program
The Tides' mission is to keep the mother-child dyad intact by engaging pregnant women with opioid use disorder in the recovery process. Located in Wilmington, NC, it serves the women of the surrounding area.
Program
A substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their children, including those whose lives have been touched by abuse and violence. The trauma-informed model of care focuses on both the mother and the child to heal the whole family and create systems of hope and renewal.
Program
Outpatient program located in Asheville, NC, to support women in recovery. Offers care under trained specialists who have experience dealing with trauma and other adversities that are specifically challenging for both teen and adult women.
Program
This program supports comprehensive tobacco use screening and cessation counseling for women of reproductive age before, between, and beyond pregnancy.
Program
Designed to provide the latest medical evidence and offer real, honest stories to inform postpartum planning.
Toolkit
Assists victims of human trafficking by providing emergency shelter, case management, and medical counseling.
Program
Behavioral health services, therapeutic foster homes, medication management, and ABA therapy for autism.
Program
Provides prenatal support for mothers to help improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce health disparities.
Program
A diaper bank that works in partnership with community-based organizations to provide diapering supplies for families facing diaper need in Western North Carolina
Program
Free drop-in group for parents providing breast milk. A Lactation Consultant will be present to help answer questions and offer support with feeding. Meets every Monday morning from 11 AM to 12 PM in the Community Room of the Behavioral Health Center at Duke Regional Hospital. Masked required.
Program
This one-hour online course will review evidence-based strategies to increase breastfeeding for healthy full-term infants. There is no charge for this online course.
Webinar
Free, respectful support for all new and expecting parents in North Carolina, from pregnancy and childbirth through post-partum.
Program
A health equity advocacy group located in Durham, NC. Dedicated to helping every family understand the benefits of breastfeeding so that they are able to make informed decisions that are right for them. Works to ensure that all families have equitable access to healthcare, breastfeeding support resources, and education.
Organization
Provides free referral services to families seeking child care, financial assistance to families who cannot afford quality child care, technical assistance to child care businesses, and educational scholarships and salary supplements to child care professionals.
Program
An open house youth shelter and safe place to stay for children aged 6-18 years. Provides basic needs as well as counseling services and vocational opportunities.
Program
Services include career and financial education, domestic violence crisis and prevention programs, assistance with legal resources, and youth health programs.
Program
Promoting healing, hope, and empowerment by providing comprehensive health, counseling, and education services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents and women, mothers, and their babies in the foster care system.
Program
At Dad to Dudla, we focus on advocating, educating, empowering, and supporting from a dad’s perspective.
Organization
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
Distributes diapers to community partners in an effort to ensure all families with babies and young children have adequate supplies of diapers and other basic hygiene necessities.
Program
A support network just for moms in Durham, NC. Find playdates and a playgroup for your kids and get connected with local moms.
Program
Seeks to ensure successful and equitable birth outcomes for women and babies in Chatham County, NC, through system and service alignment with local partners. The proposed project is an outcomes-focused initiative launched out of ongoing efforts in the county to work collaboratively across sectors to address the root causes of the county’s most pressing health disparities.
Program
Emerald Doulas was born out of the need to create a cohesive, personalized, and inclusive community for new and expectant families in and around Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh, NC. Combining their years of experience supporting and nurturing new parents and their newborns as solo doulas, founders Melanie Patrick and Ashley Collins are proud to have created the North Carolina Trangle’s first full service and comprehensive Doula Agency, which opened in January 2016.
Organization
Several programs for parenting support at various ages from birth through adolescence.
Program
Provides families with children a stable, safe, and loving environment while they are in the temporary crisis of homelessness. Offers after-school tutoring, educational enrichment programming, and early interventions.
Program
Emergency shelter for homeless families with children under 17 years, transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse.
Program
When a child is born prematurely or diagnosed with a disability, a family's world can be turned upside-down. Our mission is to provide support, education, and caring connections to families who have a child with special needs or who have experienced a NICU stay.
Program
This initiative aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve the health status of children ages 0-5. The counties will work with a local community action team (CAT) they develop to implement the evidence-based strategies utilizing a collective impact approach with a health equity lens.
Program
Helping mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education.
Program
An enhanced Doula training program that seeks to improve Black women’s maternal and birth outcomes and increase their overall birth satisfaction by providing access to social, emotional, and educational support from a professionally trained Black Doula.
Program
Free legal advice and counseling on civil matters for low-income Durham families and individuals, including issues of domestic violence, housing, government benefits, and healthcare.
Program
Pregnancy and post-partum support groups and resources for mothers in Charlotte, NC, and Mecklenburg County.
Organization, Toolkit, Webinar
A statewide psychiatric access program that supports healthcare professionals treating perinatal patients through professional development, psychiatric consultation, and connecting patients with behavioral health resources.
Program, Toolkit, Webinar
Many North Carolinians struggle every day with food insecurity, housing instability, lack of transportation access, or other non-medical social needs. NCCARE360 is the first statewide coordinated care network that better connects individuals to local services and resources.
Program
The Child and Family Wellness Unit hosts the evidence-based program, Triple P, which helps all North Carolina children to grow, develop, and be healthy by providing interventions for parents who need assistance with child-rearing, including tips and strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Program
An evidence-based community health program partnering mothers with a registered nurse early in pregnancy for ongoing nurse home visits that continue through the child's second birthday.
Program
A nonprofit whose mission is to provide period products to women and girls in Hendersonville and surrounding areas who might be homeless, low-income, or victims of domestic abuse.
Program
Supporting women of color and breastfeeding in Charlotte, NC, and surrounding areas.
Program
Full-spectrum community birthwork and breastfeeding support for the entire Cherokee family.
Other
Offers help to people affected by unemployment by providing coaching, training workshops, résumé writing, time management, and communication skills among other things to empower and prepare them to get jobs that they are passionate about.
Program
The basics are five evidence-based parenting and caregiving principles that encompass much of what experts find is important for children ages 0-3 in order to promote positive development and maximize the early childhood time period.
Toolkit
Free education and support to people who are affected by mental illness and/or addiction.
Program
A free program designed to improve the health of women before, during, and after pregnancy; improve father/male partner involvement; address health disparities; and build community capacity for healthier babies.
Program
Organizes and facilitates community-based, peer support groups for new parents across the Triangle area in North Carolina.
Program
A doula agency providing pregnancy support, birth doula services, postpartum doula services, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding classes, lactation consultation, and a mom's group to build community among mothers and families in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas of North Carolina.
Organization
Provides a safe space for mothers of color to connect and discuss topics relevant to their experience. It is also a platform for building relationships through mom’s group meet-ups and events in the Triangle Area of NC.
Other
Free clothes for children ages 0-5, families can visit six times a year. They also have a crib and car seat program.
Program
A mother-to-mother support group for pregnant and postpartum moms who are struggling with mood disorders. Meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Please contact Nancy Albrecht for more details at 919-933-3301 or nancy@ncbirthcenter.org.
Program
Behavioral health services, therapeutic foster homes, medication management, and ABA therapy for autism.
Program
Mental health services for children and families exposed to violence, including abuse and domestic violence.
Program
An open house youth shelter and safe place to stay for children aged 6-18 years. Provides basic needs as well as counseling services and vocational opportunities.
Program
Services include career and financial education, domestic violence crisis and prevention programs, assistance with legal resources, and youth health programs.
Program
Promoting healing, hope, and empowerment by providing comprehensive health, counseling, and education services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents and women, mothers, and their babies in the foster care system.
Program
Community-based organization in Charlotte, NC, that aims to support Latina women in the community. They have a program “Bonita Mamas” focused on supporting Latina teen mothers during and after pregnancy, as well as programs that support Latina women experiencing IPV or who recently immigrated.
Program
Several programs for parenting support at various ages from birth through adolescence.
Program
Emergency shelter for homeless families with children under 17 years, transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse.
Program
Offers substance abuse intensive outpatient programs (SAIOP) for children and adults.
Program
Providing compassionate, non-judgmental, gender-inclusive care to anyone seeking abortion in Asheville and surrounding areas.
Program
A nonprofit whose mission is to provide period products to women and girls in Hendersonville and surrounding areas who might be homeless, low-income, or victims of domestic abuse.
Program
Teen pregnancy support. Offers counseling, community resources, education, and mentoring.
Program
A child advocacy center that supports children who are victims of physical or sexual abuse and then coordinates the investigation, prosecution, and treatment.
Program
This project was made possible thanks to the funding, guidance, and support from North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services - Division of Public Health - Maternal Health Branch-Women, Infant, and Community Wellness Section. This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $10,216,885 with 0% financed with nongovernmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.
