“People are finally connecting the dots. They’re realizing that you can’t address early childhood development without addressing trauma and systems of care that need improvement.” – Maritza Raimundi-Petroski, Vice President, […]
Tag: Trenton
Dispatches from the field: Eliminating maternal health disparities in New Jersey
“New Jersey is on the road to becoming the safest and most equitable place in the nation to deliver and raise a baby, and I hope one day our country […]
Trenton Health Team & Central Jersey Family Health Consortium Bring Nurse Home Visits to Families in Mercer County
First Lady Tammy Murphy Applauds Program for Parents of Newborns Trenton, NJ — Trenton Health Team (THT) is partnering with Central Jersey Family Health Consortium, Capital Health, and Family Connects […]
The Burke Foundation Awards $2 Million to Help Young Children and Families Thrive
The Burke Foundation awarded $2 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 to non-profit organizations in New Jersey working to improve prenatal and child health. New Jersey has one of […]
AMAR Doula Program Celebrates Its First Graduating Class
With the support of the Burke Foundation, in early 2019 the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey (CHSofNJ) launched AMAR, a community-based doula program, to improve prenatal, labor, and postpartum […]
Insights into AMAR – A Community Based-Doula Program by Maheen K.
Early on a Saturday morning, I visited the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey in Trenton to sit-in on the seventh training session of AMAR, a community-based doula program. Having […]
Trenton Kids Count 2019 Release
The recent release of Trenton Kids Count 2019 on June 13th marks the first Kids Count initiative in the city in nearly twenty years. The Burke Foundation partnered with the […]
CHSofNJ launches new community-based doula program AMAR
The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey (CHSofNJ) recently launched AMAR, a community-based doula program in Trenton. AMAR—which means ‘to love’ in Spanish—is the first Spanish-speaking community doula program in […]