Project Nurture provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care, integrated with outpatient addiction treatment and comprehensive case management and advocacy services. Participants are educated about policies regarding DHS Child Welfare reporting, and we believe this transparency facilitates a trusting relationship with providers and allows us to be effective partners and advocates for families.

Project Nurture's model is to engage pregnant people in prenatal care and addiction treatment as early as possible and provide support throughout pregnancy and the first year postpartum, to improve outcomes for the whole family.

Project Nurture believes…

• Pregnant and parenting people need and deserve support in their efforts at recovery and safe and healthy parenting
• Stigma in healthcare contributes to the challenges and poor outcomes experienced by pregnant and parenting people with substance use disorder and their infants
• Healthcare providers and staff must actively work to end bias and stigma in the healthcare system
• Transparency and partnership with DHS/Child Welfare is essential and possible while working toward a common goal: a healthy and unified family

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