Pat SmallwoodCommunity Doula, Central Hillsborough Healthy Start Project
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Contact: Pat Smallwood, B.D.C.
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Tampa,
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813-334-5851
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The purpose of the Central Hillsborough Healthy Start Project (CHHS) is to
narrow the gap in the existing racial disparities in perinatal outcomes in Tampa
neighborhoods where Black infants die in the first year of life at a rate more
than twice that of White infants. The project currently serves mothers and
babies in 17 of Tampa’s urban census tracts where over 70% of the births are to
Black mothers who are typically young, unmarried, undereducated, and Medicaid
eligible. Despite the economic, health, and social challenges, the service
community stakeholders, program participants, project staff, and project
partners are committed to pooling and mobilizing their unique resources to level
the playing field for Central Hillsborough’s Black mothers and infants.
Together program participants, residents, churches, schools, health care
providers, and project staff are committed to reach out, engage, support and
guide the emerging families toward a more healthy beginning. Strategies for
project goals and objectives address low birth weight, preterm infants, repeat
births, Healthy Start screening rates and perinatal depression screening.
Integrated community, county, and state efforts are complimentary.
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1) Natural Childbirth / Doula
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