Women’s Health

CWHA's Activities, Events, Workshops, Training and more

The Power of Pregnancy It's All About You!

Cancer Prevention & Screening

Nurturing Healthier Futures

CWHA's Community-Led Efforts to Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality

CWHA seeks to assist in the reduction of infant and maternal mortality and improve overall health outcomes through community-based activities in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted.

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Services

The Offerings of CWHA Women's Health

CWHA provides services to at-risk pregnant, postpartum, and inter conceptional women/birthing people, their infants, and families, as well as young adults. Through outreach, care coordination and support and community events, workshops, and training, CWHA aims to increase knowledge in the following areas:

Infant safe sleep practices
Breastfeeding education and support
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Parenting skills
Women’s Health, including increased prevention and management of chronic diseases, and reduction in intimate partner violence/domestic violence.

Breastfeeding Program

Virtual Workshops: Breastfeeding & Safe Sleep Insights

CWHA’s breastfeeding and safe sleep workshops are interactive 3-hour virtual workshops that help pregnant and birthing people learn about breastfeeding benefits, techniques & challenges as well as how to create a safe sleep environment for babies. Taking place on the second Wednesday of every month, these workshops aim to increase breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivity, as well as decreasing sleep-related infant deaths.

CWHA also hosts a monthly breastfeeding support group to offer further lactation assistance to our clients. The support group takes place virtually on the first Wednesday of the month.

For more further inquiries on CWHA’s breastfeeding programs, please reach out to Harriette Jordan at hjordan@cwha.org.

Parenting Program

Enhancing Child Development

CWHA hosts parenting skills workshops to promote positive, effective, and research-proven parenting practices/strategies to strengthen young children’s social, emotional, physical, and academic development.
Formally titled Bonding with Baby and Bonding with Toddlers, these workshops are interactive 6-week virtual workshop series on nurturing, family time, bonding & more for parents, partners, grandparents, & caregivers of Newborns – 3-year-olds.

For more further inquiries on CWHA’s parenting program, please reach out to Yomaha Gordon at ygordon@cwha.org.

No-Cost Doula Support At CWHA

The largest no-cost community-based doula service provider in New York City

Caribbean Women’s Health Association is now the largest no-cost community-based doula service provider in New York City. Doulas are trained pregnancy, birth, and postpartum professionals who can help people achieve a healthy, safe, and satisfying pregnancy, birthing, and parenting experience. Doulas provide educational, physical, emotional, and practical support to pregnant persons and their families before, during, and after childbirth. In addition to these services, community-based doulas are integral to improving maternal health because there is a deeper connection to the advancement of birth justice – they are members of the communities they serve; they are trained in historical, educational, and cultural content on how race, institutional and interpersonal bias, and social determinants of health affect communities of color, they provide extra home visits and early linkage to services and referrals, and are cost-accessible to the community. Doula support includes:

Non-judgmental assistance throughout the maternal health journey
Assistance navigating culturally appropriate resources
Providing relevant, factual, and timely information
Informing clients about the bodily changes they may experience
Advocating for clients’ birth plans & preferences and help them communicate decisions to family and hospital staff
Hands on labor support such as breathing, relaxation, positioning, and massage
Encouraging strategies for self-care, healing from a c-section or difficult birth, nutritional guidance, transitioning into parenthood

Encouraging strategies for newborn care, sleeping, breastfeeding, soothing, and warning signs.

Doula Support Benefits

Reduce racial inequities in birth and postpartum outcomes

Doula support is also an effective way to help reduce racial inequities in birth and postpartum outcomes. Research1,2,3,4, 5 show that doula support leads to better birthing experiences and outcomes, like:

Improved Birth Experience
Shorter labor/ lesser induced labor
Less pain medication
Decreased need for instruments (forceps or vacuums) during vaginal birth
Lower C-section rate
Decreased risk of baby being premature or having low birth weight
Higher APGAR scores for baby (heart rate, respiration, muscle tone)
Decreased risk of baby being sent to NICU (neonatal ICU (Intensive Care Unit))
Breastfeeding earlier & longer
Improved parent-baby bonding

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Kind words from our community

Doula

With heartfelt gratitude, I thank you

May 5, 2023

My baby boy is here and I owe a great deal to your Organization. The support provided meant a lot, at the outset of pregnancy ...

Doula

Jamie is a unicorn

October 25, 2023

I like to refer to Jamie as a unicorn. She’s so patient, understanding, caring and most importantly supportive. This was our first birth, my husband ...

Breastfeeding Program

Perfect postpartum doula

October 23, 2022

Sarah is patient, kind and doesn’t choose work to do. I would call her the perfect postpartum doula and am hoping that she will be ...

Doula

October 5, 2022

Valentina came to my family as an exceptional blessing. She did excellent job in reducing my stress and managing my daily life through her kind ...

Doula

Receiving that type of treatment meant the WORLD to me

July 10, 2023

She was so patient and gentle with me, especially when I was having contractions. I have never received this level of care so receiving that ...

Awesome care and customer service

December 28, 2022

Thank you and the organization for providing parents during and after pregnancy with the essential items that are needed for their babies. Continue to give ...

Doula

I thank God every day for putting that woman in my life

October 25, 2022

Harriet was a huge support for me and she stayed by my side until my son was born literally.

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