SUMMARY: The Mother’s Rising (MR) Home Visitation program delivers enhanced preventative health, perinatal support services, and care coordination to medically underserved women. The overall program goal is to decrease perinatal morbidities and mortality, which increasing health equity in targeted service areas. The program aims to 1) Build resilience, enhance the woman’s power, and reduce stress; 2) Promote the adoption of healthy lifestyles that promote community transformation; 3) Promote healthy relationships, enhance bonding and parenting skills; 4) Connect expectant women and new mothers with an array of medical, social, and behavioral health services; 5) Strengthen communities through supportive environment for childrearing and family wellness; 6) Mobilizing the community towards supporting the MR program and improving perinatal outcomes for women of color.

POSITION OVERVIEW: The Perinatal Care Manager (PCM) aids in addressing psychosocial and emotional concerns of clients of the Mother’s Rising program, by monitoring, and organizing individualized care plans, community resources and other partnerships to meet identified needs; shares resources on external social service agencies to meet needs of patients for housing, legal, domestic violence, and substance abuse; an identify services to address social determinants of health based on outcomes and patient feedback. The PCM coordinates a team of Perinatal Family Support Workers (PFSW) and Care Specialists (CS) to develop strategies to help each client family system towards stability. The PCM must be highly organized, empathetic, compassionate, nonjudgmental, and eager to help address client issues.