Maternal Child Adolescent Health Program

Goals of the MCAH Program:

Improve access to quality health care for mothers, infants and children.

Improve access to dental services for pregnant women and infants at first tooth/first year.

Promote parent/infant bonding and nurturing home environments for women, children, adolescents and their families.

Promote safe sleep environment for all infants to reduce the risk of SIDS. 

Reduce the risk of injuries to children and adolescents in the community.

 

Services under the Maternal Child Adolescent Health Program:

MCAH Toll Free Hotline 1-800-794-4067 to help pregnant women and children access medical care.

Perinatal Services Coordination to assess and promote quality of services to pregnant women under the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program.

Sudden Infant Death Coordination to insure that all persons affected by a SIDS death receive information about counseling and support services in the community. 

Bicycle helmet and water safety vest classes are available.  Please visit the classes page for more information.

 

No-Cost Text Tips for Mom and Moms to Be - Text 4 Baby

To help more pregnant women and new moms get information about caring for their health and giving their babies the best possible start in life, the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) launched Text4baby, the first free health text messaging service in the U.S.Text4baby supports moms by providing accurate, text-length health information and resources in a format that is personal and timely.  Click the link below to sign up. 

    

Prenatal Resource Directory

An updated directory of locally available prenatal health care resources is available here.

 

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Prevention

In the United States, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the major cause of death in infants from one month to one year of age. SIDS happens to families of all social, ethnic and economic groups. Most SIDS deaths occur when babies are between two and four months of age.  Currently there is no known way to prevent SIDS. But after many years of research, we do know that babies sleep safer when placed on their back on a firm surface. Since the early 1990’s when the United States initiated the Back to Sleep Campaign the number of SIDS deaths has dropped by over 50 percent.  The links below contain brochures on the top 10 ways to reduce a child's risk of SIDS.

 

Dental Care

Dental services are provided as one of the many services available through Medi-Cal.  A list of local providers who accept Medi-Cal is available in English, Spanish and Hmong.

Developmental Milestones

To help increase awareness of developmental milestones, CDC developed the "Learn the Signs.  Act Early" campaign.  Help spread the word about the campaign and about child development using the CDC tool below: