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Maternal Child Health (MCH)

Socorro County MCH is committed to the health and wellbeing of women, youth and families. Through community collaboration they are able to provide, both directly and indirectly, a variety of services. The Socorro County MCH Plan priorities are as follows:
  • Maintain and expand existing MCH services
  • Bilingual perinatal case management
  • Adolescent Risk Reduction classes
  • Transportation services
  • Parenting and health related education

Funded activities are:
  • County MCH Council coordination
  • Bilingual Perinatal case management
  • Car Seat Program
  • Health Education
  • Limited transportation services
  • Adolescent Risk Reduction classes

MCH impact on Maternal and Child Health in 2003 is as follows:
  • MCH case managed clients, 100% up-to-date on immunizations
  • 97% breastfed at least seven months
  • 100% enrolled under Medicaid
  • 79% of mothers contracepting
  • Ages and Stages through 36 months.
  • Decreased teen birth rates since 2000 of 29.8%
  • Socorro County mothers have a higher level of prenatal care than mothers in other parts of state (PRAMS data)
  • Over 83 clients served directly through bilingual case manager
  • Over 14,770 individuals impacted through MCH educational opportunities
  • Over 965 individuals impacted by transportation services

Socorro General Hospital's MCH program has been working on teen pregnancy prevention since 1994 through a comprehensive approach involving parents, students, schools, community, and religious community. The program emphasis is goal setting, healthy relationships, refusal skills, choices have consequences, and life skills. Their program starts in the second grade and are in 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th and 11th grades with reinforcing assemblies for all middle and high school students prior to prom and homecoming. Parents are the primary educators and MCH has programs to reach parents.