Catholic Charities ACCESS Pregnancy and Referral Centers in New Orleans area offer many services: Spirit and Spice
By on May 27, 2013
Babies need diapers – a lot of them. At Catholic Charities’ ACCESS Pregnancy and Referral Centers, 3,000 diapers are given away monthly to mothers in need. Clients can receive diapers once a month for “as long as needed” at three area locations, said Michelle Black, director of Catholic Charities maternity and adoption services.
In New Orleans, ACCESS, located at 1030 Lesseps St. in the St. Cecilia Medical Center, also provides free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and assistance from Medicaid enrollment specialists and client advocates, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Expanded services for maternity care and adoption referral are available Monday through Friday at 921 Aris Ave., Metairie, and at 1101 Barataria Blvd., Monday through Thursdays.
In September, ACCESS will take to the streets to serve women in the Greater New Orleans area who lack access to adequate prenatal resources. A new, thirty-five foot mobile pregnancy care center providing free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds will be introduced this fall.
“We hope to serve the underserved,” Black said.
Black said the mobile unit is modeled after the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home Mobile Pregnancy Care Center that travels once a month from Monroe to New Orleans. Black said her office toured the Baptist unit and consulted with Perry Hancock, a former New Orleanian who now directs the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home.
The Baptist mobile unit donated its ultrasound equipment to ACCESS for use in its new mobile unit after upgrading its equipment recently.
Margaret Murphy, a registered nurse, said ACCESS provides care and support to women in unplanned pregnancies. One client, divorced and nine weeks pregnant, decided against an abortion after seeing an ultrasound that showed her baby moving, Murphy said.
All services are confidential. Prenatal care and community resources referrals, educational sessions with a dietician or nurse, and information on adoption, parenting and abortion are available.
Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat, providing confidential and non-judgmental post-abortion support and healing, is November 15-17 at the Rosaryville Retreat Center in Ponchatoula. The event is open to any family member impacted by abortion. For information, call 504.885.1141 or visit www.accesspregnancy.com.
In New Orleans, ACCESS, located at 1030 Lesseps St. in the St. Cecilia Medical Center, also provides free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and assistance from Medicaid enrollment specialists and client advocates, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Expanded services for maternity care and adoption referral are available Monday through Friday at 921 Aris Ave., Metairie, and at 1101 Barataria Blvd., Monday through Thursdays.
In September, ACCESS will take to the streets to serve women in the Greater New Orleans area who lack access to adequate prenatal resources. A new, thirty-five foot mobile pregnancy care center providing free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds will be introduced this fall.
“We hope to serve the underserved,” Black said.
Black said the mobile unit is modeled after the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home Mobile Pregnancy Care Center that travels once a month from Monroe to New Orleans. Black said her office toured the Baptist unit and consulted with Perry Hancock, a former New Orleanian who now directs the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home.
The Baptist mobile unit donated its ultrasound equipment to ACCESS for use in its new mobile unit after upgrading its equipment recently.
Margaret Murphy, a registered nurse, said ACCESS provides care and support to women in unplanned pregnancies. One client, divorced and nine weeks pregnant, decided against an abortion after seeing an ultrasound that showed her baby moving, Murphy said.
All services are confidential. Prenatal care and community resources referrals, educational sessions with a dietician or nurse, and information on adoption, parenting and abortion are available.
Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat, providing confidential and non-judgmental post-abortion support and healing, is November 15-17 at the Rosaryville Retreat Center in Ponchatoula. The event is open to any family member impacted by abortion. For information, call 504.885.1141 or visit www.accesspregnancy.com.
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