Community Health Volunteer for Women and Teen Pregnancy

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The Loving Steps Foundation Home Visiting Program gives pregnant women & pregnant teens or mothers who has given birth and the child is newborn to 5 years of age, particularly those considered at-risk, necessary resources and skills to raise children who are physically, socially, and emotionally healthy and ready to learn.

What are the program's goals?

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Goals for every program are to:

• improve maternal and child health,
• prevent child abuse and neglect,
• encourage positive parenting, and
• promote child development and school readiness.

How do we help participants?

By electing to volunteer in our home visiting program, families can receive help.

Through regular, planned home visits, parents learn how to improve their family's health and provide better opportunities for their children.

Home visits may include:

• supporting preventive health and prenatal practices
• assisting mothers on how best to breastfeed and care for their babies
• helping parents understand child development milestones and behaviors,
• promoting parents’ use of praise and other positive parenting techniques, and
• working with mothers to set goals for the future, continue their education, and find employment and child care solutions.
• Changing diapers & preparing infant formula.
• Teaching nutrition or how to cook
• Money management
• Any positive parenting skill the volunteer can provide.

All volunteers must meet with someone from the organization to fill out an application and to complete orientation before the first home visit. Home visits are conducted Monday-Fridays in the mornings, afternoons, and evenings. The time depends on the schedule of the mother you are assigned to. If interested in this opportunity, you are on your way to building a relationship and changing 2 lives forever. Mother and child.