Healthy MOMS
The Wright Center for Community Health and Maternal and Family Health Services launched Healthy MOMS (Maternal Opiate Medical Support) a pregnancy-recovery initiative with support from the AllOne Foundation in 2018. Healthy MOMS unites regional healthcare, legal, and social service providers to support pre- and post-natal women with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) to significantly reduce the risk of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in their newborns.
Health MOMS support can include assistance with housing, childcare, transportation, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), substance abuse counseling, case management, mental health counseling, recovery support through a certified recovery specialist, and medical care for mother and child.
At its heart, Healthy MOMS is a collaborative project, relying on substantial and sustained community partnerships with organizations such as Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, Geisinger Health System, Children and Youth Services, Moses Taylor Hospital, Outreach Center for Community Resources, Scranton Primary Health Care Center and the United Way.
Free to be Mom
In 2020, AllOne Foundation supported the expansion of Geisinger’s Free to be Mom (F2BM) program into Luzerne County. F2BM is a new care delivery model for mothers-in-recovery and their infants. The program offers counseling, community-wide social support, and medication-assisted treatment without fear of stigma to empower mothers and babies to thrive physically, emotionally, and socially.
The F2BM program is a true community collaboration, using a multidisciplinary approach to provide medical, legal, educational, psychological, governmental and recovery services, as well as childcare, housing and transportation. Active partners in F2BM include Aveanna Health, Children’s Service Center, Clean Slate, Commission on Economic Opportunity, Domestic Violence Service Center, Graniteville House of Recovery, Head Start/Early Head Start, Maternal and Family Health Services and New Roots, along with multiple Luzerne County agencies such as Adult Probation, Children and Youth, and Drug and Alcohol.