What Is Pregnancy Aid Center?
Who Provides The Services?
Who Are Our Clients?
What Does Pregnancy Aid Center Offer?
What Medical Services Are Offered?
What Does Our Adolescent Outreach Program Offer?
What Are Our Hours of Operation?
What Is Pregnancy Aid Center?
- A non-profit, non-sectarian, community supported social service center and medical clinic dedicated to assisting the pregnant woman, her unborn child, the new mother and her baby.
- An organization committed to serving low-income women who have no health insurance.
- A concerned, professional, bilingual staff providing culturally sensitive medical care and counceling.
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Who Provides The Services?
- Medical services by:
- a Certified Nurse Midwife and Certified Nurse Practitioner from Georgetown University,
- a Perinatologist from Johns Hopkins University,
- an Obstertrician/Gynecologist from Dimensions Ob/Gyn Associates and
- a Family Nurse Practicioner
- Counseling by licensed social workers
- Social work and nursing students from area universities filling their practicum
- Staff support from volunteers
Who Are Our Clients?
- Low-income adolescents and women, mothers and families who are unable to access medical care or social services through private or public agencies.
- Range in age from 12 to 42, with the largest number in the 15 to 25 age range.
- From economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties and Washington, D.C.
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What Does Pregnancy Aid Center Offer?
- Confidential counseling and support:
- Pregnancy options counseling
- Individual and family counseling
- Family planning education
- Adoption assistance
- AIDS/Sexually transmitted disease prevention
- Pregnancy testing
- Assistance in obtaining:
- Medicaid
- Information and referral to other social service agencies
- Emergency food for mother and baby
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What Medical Services Are Offered?
- Prenatal care with delivery at local hospitals.
- Follow-up well woman care.
- Family planning services.
- Education and useful information about:
- Your pregnancy
- Premature (early) delivery
- Your baby's growth
- Benefits of good nutrition
- How to decrease or stop smoking cigarettes
- How to stop stop abusing alcohol and/or drugs
- How to care for your baby
- how to be a good parent
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What Does Our Adolescent Outreach Program Offer?
- Staff assistance at parenting classes of local public schools.
- Home visits to new mothers with monitoring of infants through the first year of life.
- Connections of newborns to pediatricians.
- Abstinence counseling.
- Pregnancy prevention counceling and services.
- Parenting education and counceling.
- Prevention of child abuse and neglect.
- Transportation to other service providers.
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What Are Our Hours of Operation?
Monday: 9:00 - 4:40
Tuesday: 9:00 - 4:40
Wednesday: 9:00 - 6:30
Thursday: 9:00 - 4:40
Friday: 9:00 - 4:40
Saturday: Mornings by appointment only
Sunday: closed
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