Maternal and Child Health

CAI helps health departments, state agencies, community-based organizations, and community members promote health and wellness for mothers, children, and families. Through our training, technical assistance, and implementation support, we help health care providers strengthen their services, and we help community health workers maximize their impact with people they serve.

• CAI has supported Special Supplemental Nutrition Services for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs across the country, and for several years we have served as New York State’s WIC Training Center. We help agencies improve their services by establishing and building core competencies of staff, improving wait times and workflows, and promoting effective communication skills.
  
  

• Our Maternal and Infant Health Project helps community-based organizations and agencies improve health equity and outcomes for mothers and infants in New York City neighborhoods with the greatest health disparities. We are helping these organizations enhance their services and advance best practices in areas essential to women’s and infants’ health, such as safe sleep, toxic stress, and trauma.
  
  

• With funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute—and in partnership with three northeastern universities and members of affected communities—CAI's EMPOWER Project is researching service-delivery models that improve early detection and control of postpartum hypertension and the social and mental health factors that impact high rates of maternal mortality.