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Back when I was pregnant with my first child,
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I had to do things on my own in regards
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to setting up an appointment for myself
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and signing up for Medicaid myself.
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It would have been a big relief for me
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if I knew that Healthy Start exists.
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Healthy Start is a maternal child health program.
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We do home visiting and provide education
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to women of childbearing age,
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basically trying to influence
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negative birth outcomes
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that can happen from lack of prenatal care.
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We get people connected to OB-GYNs
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and prenatal care, education, resource
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and everything they need to have a healthy pregnancy.
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A lot of Marshallese
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that I work with wouldn't really seek
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and get the help that they need
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because of language barrier.
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There's a lot of access to translators,
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but they're either over the phone
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or they're a medical assistant
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that has a full time job.
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And so that's a large part of my job,
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is making sure they can go
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well-equipped to their next appointment.
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A lot of the women, it's
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not that they don't want healthy pregnancy,
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but there's a lot of other things
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happening in their lives
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that are prioritized right then
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and being able to help address
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those social determinants
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type of issues makes a big difference
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and gives them the space
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to breathe and say, okay,
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now I can worry about a doctor's appointment
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and making sure that I'm doing
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what the doctor says.
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What I really like about this job is
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building trust, relationships, baby's health
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and mom's health is very important to me.
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The ones that have been in this program for a long time,
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they say that this program
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is life changing for them.
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I am so proud of the work
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we're doing to keep birthing persons
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and babies healthy.
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Thank you, CDC, for supporting our work.
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Together, we're improving health
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outcomes for the community.
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