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Contact: Helen Machado
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A Tour of the DC Developing Families Center
Washington,
Jun 28, 2010 -
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard visited the DC Developing Families Center to learn more about how birth centers can improve childbirth outcomes for mothers and babies while significantly lowering maternity costs.
The DC Developing Families Center (DCDFC) promotes the empowerment of low-income families through the collaboration of three nonprofit service providers: the Family Health and Birth Center, the Healthy Babies Project, and Nation's Capital Child and Family Development.
A unique umbrella organization, DCDFC is the first collaboration model of its kind to offer continuous, uninterrupted care for women and their families during the important childbearing and early child-rearing years.
Services include health checkups for women, children, and teens; immunizations; pregnancy testing; prenatal care and education; a free-standing, homelike birth center; early childhood development services; social service assistance; job training; and continuing education.
All services are provided under one roof in a personalized setting that is easily accessible to the low-income communities of Carver Terrace and Trinidad/Ivy City in northeast Washington, DC.
Pictured left to right outside of the center are: Cynthia Flynn, CNM, PhD – General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center; Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34); and Ruth Lubig, CNM, EdD – Founder of the DC Developing Families Center.
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