Factors Pushing Up - 

1. Access to care
2. Basic economics (access to income)
3. Eduction
4. Access to support
5. Access to childcare
6. Access to transportation

Factors Pushing Down - 

1. Lack of access to care; concerns dismissed by doctors
2. Lack of where they are receiving the care
3. Lack of knowledge that they need and have a right to access
4. Where they live there is no support
5. Lack of childcare prevents easy access to pre-natale care
6. Unemployment
7. Bias from healthcare providers
8. Providers don't represent the population
9. Number of patients seen at a clinic vs ob/gyn
10. Young mothers
11. The culture (generations growing up in poverty)

1. Stephen F Austin
2. BC Health Dept
3. WIC
4. Pregnancy Help Center
5. SIDS
6. TWC
7. Housing Counseling
8. Worksource
9. True to Life
10. Connect
11. NCI
12. BACH
13. BCCIL
14. YFCS
15. BC Cnty Counseling
16. Headstart
17. UTMB
18. Brazosport
19. CHI
20. Urgent Cares Life Skills Housing
21. Food Pantries
22. Substance Abuse
23. Dream Center
24. Action, Inc.
25. GGCCN

Evidence Based Practices:

1. Proper nutrition
2. Smoking cessation
3. Drug & alcohol programs
4. Infant mortality

Promising Practices:

1. Mobile clinic
2. Education programs
3. True to Life
4. Ease of transportation
5. Connect
6. Immunization schedules
7. Well child visits
8. Access to contraceptives
9. Greater Gulf Coast Community Network

No cost/low cost:

1. Medicaid transportation

Off the Wall:

1. Connect - bring food to people
2. Leverage transportation across partners
3. Like Actions, Inc and Meals on Wheels - create the same, but for young mothers
4. Leverage mobile units across partners
5. One stop shop for all services

1. Increase the knowledge and skills of parents-to-be through education and training that focuses on the prevention of or mitigation of at-risk-behaviors during pregnancy, including but not limite to smomingsmoking or substance abuse
2. Increase access to health care services and education in communities that are underserved