MOMobile at Riverside
The Riverside MOMobile is focused on pregnant women and mothers, and is an innovative collaboration between Maternity Care Coalition, a well-established community-based organization, and the Philadelphia Prison System. Housed within the Riverside Correctional Facility, MOMobile staff provides a hands-on service that helps women transition successfully to parenthood during and after incarceration.Services before release include peer educational groups for pregnant women and women with very young children, individual case management to develop parenting skills, links to community resources, Doula (labor support) during labor and delivery and help for babies’ caregivers while the mother is incarcerated. After release, services include individual case management,supportive home visits for up to one year after release andcc onnections to resources needed for successful re-entry.
Quick Facts:
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Children and Families
- Education
- Mental Health
- Physical Health
- pregnancy, parenting and motherhood
- Inititative/program name:
- MOMobile at Riverside
- Year Established:
- 2006
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Maternity Care Coalition
- Population served by initiative/program:
- Returning from local jails
- Women
- pregnant women and mothers being reunified with their children
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MOMobile at Riverside
Contact:
Marjie MogulDirector of Research
Maternity Care Coalition
2000 Hamilton Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130
mmogul@momobile.org
momobile.org
MOMobile at Riverside
Initiatives and Programs
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Children and Families
- Education
- Mental Health
- Physical Health
- pregnancy, parenting and motherhood
- Inititative/program name:
- MOMobile at Riverside
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Maternity Care Coalition
- Funding sources for initiative/program:
- Private Foundation Funding
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- X
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- X
Funding
Partners in the reentry initiative/program
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Participants
- Population served by initiative/program:
- Returning from local jails
- Women
- pregnant women and mothers being reunified with their children
- Total number of people who have participated in initiative/program to date:
- over 400
- Total number of people currently participating in initiative/program:
- approximately 75
- Total number of people who can be served at one time:
- approximately 100
Data Collection
- Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- basic demographics and some personal history
- Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
- Yes
- Does your organization measure and/or track the outcome of participation?
- Yes
Activities
- What, if any, activities does your initiative/program include for people while they are incarcerated and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- parenting skills preparation for childbirth and parenting linkage to referral and benefits individualized case management support for child's caregiver
- What activities does your organization engage in post-release and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- home visiting support for child's caregiver
- How are people placed into your program?
- Referral