sphs program overview
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Our Vision.
The vision of the South Phoenix Healthy Start Project (SPHS) is that fewer
babies will be victims of infant mortality and that women of childbearing
age and their babies will be healthier as a result of early and easy access to
high-quality, comprehensive perinatal health care and community assets
and resources.
SHARING LIVES...
Not one single program
participant family living in the
South, Central Phoenix or
Maryvale communities have
suffered the pain of losing their
baby before its first birthday!
Since, the South Phoenix
Healthy Start Program began
nearly twelve years ago
p r o v i d i n g c o m m u n i t y
awareness and prenatal health
e d u c a t i o n a n d
developing an engaged
Community Consortium, there
have been no infant deaths to
program families even as the
infant mortality rates and poor
birth outcomes within their
communities increased around
them.
South Phoenix Healthy Start “sharing healthier lives with our new little lives…”
Our Services...
Community Health Workers
(CHW) from the target commu-
nities enroll pregnant women
and parenting families from the
target area as early in their
pregnancy as possible and
continue services through the
interconceptional period until
baby’s second birthday.
The CHW is directly supervised
by an RN with over 20 years of
OB care in a clinical setting.
Risk/Asset Screening is con-
ducted and the RN provides
consultation planning with the
CHW on the appropriate sched-
ule for home visitation and peri-
natal health education.
Each CHW receives on-going
training on perinatal health top-
ics and is community resources
to enable them to provide high
quality health education using
evidence based curriculum
developed by March of Dimes,
Partners for a Healthy Baby, and
Beginnings Guides for Parents.
The team is trained on conduct-
ing depression screening using
the Edinburgh Depression Scale
and infant development using
the Ages and Stages Question-
naire .
In 2010, over 30,000 individuals living
in the Healthy Start community
received valuable health and
community resource information
delivered by Healthy Start team
members and community volunteers.
Healthy Start team members attend at
least 10 community events each month
for the sole purpose of community
education and outreach referral to
pregnant and parenting families into
perinatal health and social services.
Each year over 400 local families are
enrolled into full case management
services through South Phoenix
Healthy Start.
During home based case management
visits, participants receive several
health, behavioral, safety and environ-
mental assessments; education on
topics such as prenatal nutrition; labor
and delivery; signs/symptoms of pre-
term labor; mother/child bonding; in-
fant development; prenatal and post-
partum depression; smoking; use of
alcohol and drugs; family violence;
breastfeeding; immunizations; SIDS;
car seat safety; finishing school;
budgeting; employment; and the
importance of the father’s involvement
in baby’s life. In addition, the SPHS
case manager ensures the participant
receives a referral to other community
resources as needed.
Group education and home
visits are free to pregnant and deliv-
ered mothers, regardless of income or
insurance coverage, immigration status
and with special emphasis on teens
and women at high risk for medical
complications or family support issues.
All progress achieved on the family
development plans and health educa-
tion goals are tracked using the Life
Skills Progression.
Community outreach and health
promotion education is conducted by
the trained Promotoras contracted
through Healthy Mothers, Healthy Ba-
bies Maricopa.
South Phoenix Healthy Start works to reduce perinatal disparities, through
the systematic, responsive, and competent delivery of five core services to
mediate underlying factors that determine perinatal outcomes, such as
health behaviors, social responses, income, resiliency and asset/resource
linkages and other factors. The core services delivered to target area
families at no cost to the families are:
1. Outreach and Recruitment of Eligible Families
2. Home Visit Based Prenatal/Postpartum and Infant Case Management
3. Perinatal and Infant Health and Development Education
4. Depression Screening, Referral and Support
5. Interconceptional Care Coordination and Education for Mothers,
Fathers and their Babies
Our Team...
Our Communities... The target communities served by South
Phoenix Healthy Start cover a geo-
graphic area of approximately 250 square
miles. That’s’ an area larger than the
islands of Bahrain, St. Lucia and Guam!
These communities in the state have
higher than average state and national
rates of teen birth , prematurity , low
birth weight (LBW) and infant mortality
and actual infant deaths, especially
among African American, Native Ameri-
can and Hispanic families.
Satellite Locations
Due to the great geographic size of the
target area and the extensive, diverse
needs of the Healthy Start community,
many of the core services delivered by
the Healthy Start team are conducted
within the communities themselves, not
just in a distant office.
Currently, SPHS has staff and community
volunteers working at various locations
throughout the community and looking
for additional opportunities to meet
families in their own neighborhoods.
Several sites have Healthy Start corners
and community resource for neighbors
s t o p p i n g b y f o r i n f o r m a t i o n .
SPHS is working at John F Long Family
Service Center and within several churches
in South Phoenix and Maryvale to provide
information , offer referrals, conduct office
visits and hold health education sessions.
Special educational services are also
provided in partnership with the Phoenix
Union High School District and West Phoe-
nix Charter High School for Community
Health Workers to provide weekly prenatal,
postpartum and parenting classes and sup-
port on campus at eight local high schools.
Our Partners...
Our Support...
South Phoenix Healthy Start is a
public health intervention
administered by Maricopa
County Department of Public
Health and is funded by the
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Bureau
of Maternal Child Health and
State of Arizona First Things
First program to eliminate
disparities in perinatal birth
outcomes and provide prenatal
and postnatal education to
women and their families in the
targeted communities of South
Phoenix, Central Phoenix and
Maryvale.
South Phoenix Healthy Start has a strong, long established
Community Consortium that meets monthly.
The Community Consortium has over 50 regular members from all aspects of the
Healthy Start community—health providers, social service agency representatives, pub-
lic health officials, non-profit and business owners, educators, community leaders and
interested residents, faith leaders and more importantly program participants.
The Community Consortium comes together to receive on-going perinatal health infor-
mation, public health data and community resources and programs available to fami-
lies. Additionally, members assist each year in the strategic planning process.
In 2011, a Healthy Start Participant Advisory Council will be established to provide
valuable leadership into the needs and recommendations for program development.
Other Family Support
Services We Offer...
Doula or Prenatal/Labor/Post
Partum Support Services
Child Birth Education classes
for mom and her partner
Dancing for Birth classes
Healthy Fathers Initiative
classes on male involvement
and life skills
Lactation consultation
Social events for enrolled
families like; birthday parties,
baby showers, crafting/
scrapbooking, sewing skills,
healthy cooking, etc.
First Saturday monthly
Farmer’s Market providing
fresh vegetables and fruits to
families
Folic acid vitamins
Safe cribs, car seats and other
incentive items useful to new
families.
Transportation to Dr. visits
St. Mary’s Food Bank and SPHS community volunteers come together on the first Saturday of
each month to distribute nearly 22 tons of fresh vegetables and fruit to the SPHS participants
and community at no cost. Produce boxes are also deliv-
ered to enrolled participant family homes if they are unable
to get to the “market.”
Farmer’s Market.
Curriculum developed by Community Consortium member, AZ Facts of Life designed to
improve provider, staff and community skills in working with families to engage them more
completely in their own advocacy and goal attainment.
Motivational Interviewing.
A Mother’s Worth offers a 4 week series of Weekly CBE classes that give participants an un-
derstanding of the different stages of labor, natural comfort measures, common hospital inter-
ventions, newborn care, and information on breastfeeding. An additional movement class will
be offered that includes relaxation, abdominal and pelvic floor focus, optimal fetal positioning,
and “fourth trimester” motion tips and practice. Both classes are conducted by certified
educators trained in clinically relevant models and is enjoyable, creative and engaging.
Child Birth Education and Dancing for Birth.
Workshops offered through our partner, Father Matters designed to assist in promoting male
involvement during prenatal, delivery and during the development of their children. Work-
shops also assist men in establishing paternity, working with child support enforcement stan-
dards and custody issues, building financial literacy and skills and job readiness.
Fathers Mentoring Fathers and Financial Sustainability for Fathers.
SPHS Winter/Spring Events
South Phoenix Healthy Start
Main Office
2737 West Southern Avenue, Suite 8
Tempe, AZ 85282
602.304.1166 ph
602.276.3209 fax
sphealthystart@mail.maricopa.gov
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