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Community baby showers educate California parents.
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- Author(s): Truant, Patti
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Nation's Health. Sep2005, Vol. 35 Issue 7, p9-9. 3/4p. 2 Black and White Photographs.
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This article focuses on the importance of community baby showers to parents residing in California in 2005. Low-income expectant mothers in Alameda County are benefiting from a unique health department initiative that educates women on health during and after pregnancy. The county public health department's Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Program began hosting community baby showers in 2004, offering women living in targeted ZIP codes resources to learn more about pregnancy and infant health, the opportunity to receive baby-related gifts and prizes and connections to community health services. While the program is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Healthy Start: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health program, the baby showers, which cost about $1,500 each, are paid for mostly by individual donations, community organizations and corporate support.
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