Healthy Births for Healthy
Communities
Healthy Births for Healthy Communities (HBHC) is a new program at the Westside Health Authority sponsored by the Steans Foundation and the Illinois Department of Human Services. HBHC is designed to help the Austin community have healthier babies by helping pregnant women access health and social services. The program goals are to annually reach 75% of the unserved pregnant women in Austin and enroll them in family case management and WIC. Women not enrolled in prenatal support programs have worse birth outcomes (i.e. very low birth weight, infants dying before their first birthday). WHA has employed three outreach workers, Dana Williams, Janique Pettis, and Tiffany Winters, that have completed a 12-session training in outreach techniques and healthy pregnancies to assist in our efforts to find pregnant women and connect them to services in the Austin community.
If you know someone who could benefit from our services please contact Dana Woods, HBHC Coordinator, at 773-786-0249.
