The San Francisco Black Infant Health Program (SFBIHP) is excited to extend an enthusiastic and warm invitation to the Bay Area community to celebrate "The Joy of Our Babies" in recognition of scores of new lives the organization has had the privilege to usher into the world. SHBIHP requests the community, especially those who were born and raised in San Francisco, but now live in other parts of the Bay Area, to join in the festivities on Saturday, June 3, 2017. The event will take place at the West Bay Conference Center, located in the chic and trendy Fillmore Jazz Preservation District of San Francisco's Western Addition/Alamo Square area at 1290 Fillmore Street.
"There are upwards of 400 Black babies born in San Francisco annually. Our program participants come to us pregnant, and we shepherd them through the delivery of fragile new life," shares program director Jenee Johnson. "It is in alignment with our mission to ensure that Black mothers are well supported to acquire new health behaviors, address chronic stress and any other barriers to having a healthy baby."
In San Francisco, Black babies die at three times the rate of the general population in the first year of life. They die due to being born too soon and too small. The mission of the SFBIHP is to improve birth outcomes and health disparities affecting African American women and their infants. As women complete the San Francisco Black Infant Health Program, they desire to remain in a thriving community of mothers who are raising the next generation. To meet this desire, in February SFBIHP launched an alumni program to serve over 550 women who have been touched by our services since 2010 when the group intervention began.
Everyone is invited to join SFBIHP to dance for life! Dance for the babies! Dance for our ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand! Dance for health! Dance to build resilience! Dance for love!
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