Community Agencies

Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network

625 Delaware Avenue
Suite 410
Buffalo, NY 14202

716-884-6711

The Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network, Inc. (BPPN) is a not-for-profit organization that has been in operation for over 30 years. The overall mission of the organization is to coordinate and collaborate with key stakeholders in Erie County/City of Buffalo, to increase access to and utilization of preconception, prenatal, perinatal and postpartum health care services in the community. The agency and its programs work within the community to help identify problems of adequacy, acceptability and accessibility in the delivery of these services, especially to those who are in high-need; to seek support for implementation of programs/services that help attain the agency mission; promote coordination between service providers who serve similar consumers/clients; and to provide informational and educational activities for providers and consumers, to help enable improved birth outcomes for the targeted population.

The programs operated by BPPN focus on improving maternal and infant health outcomes for high need women and their families, to help reduce racial and ethnic disparities in those outcomes and support and nurture parents.

BPPN serves over 25 zip codes in high-risk, low-income neighborhoods on the East and West side of Buffalo, as well as, South Buffalo, Lackawanna and Cheektowaga. Our target populations are African-American and Hispanic women since they demonstrate the highest rates of low birth weight infants and infant mortality.

Programs operated by Buffalo Prenatal include a New York State Department of Health Maternal Infant Community Health Collaborative (MICHC), a Healthy Families New York Program (also known as the Buffalo Home Visiting Program) and the Nurturing Fathers Program.

Every Person Influences Children (EPIC)

EPIC provides research-based and evidence-informed year-round programming in:

Parenting Education

Youth Services

Family Engagement in Education

Professional Development

EPIC’s parenting curricula are all grounded in current research and utilize evaluation and research designs to illustrate the success of their replication and to demonstrate effectiveness in creating positive change in parents’ abilities to impact their children’s development. Evaluation and research on EPIC's parenting programs has consistently found a positive impact on parents and consequently, on their children.

Our family engagement work strives to achieve improvements in standards-based systemic planning by schools and districts and provides services for parents that support the academic success of their children. EPIC’s family engagement model also helps to build the parents’ capacity to be advocates and leaders for their children, the school, and the community.

While EPIC focuses primarily on parents, we also offer workshops in developing character in students, Pre-K through 8th grade; and social, emotional and life skills workshops for teens.

epicforchildren.org

Every Bottom Covered - Diaper Bank

Delavan Grider Community Center

877 E. Delavan Avenue

Buffalo, NY 14215

Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays 12 noon - 4 pm

Saturdays by Appointment

everybottomcovered.org

Jericho Road - The Priscilla Project

233 West Ferry Street, Buffalo, NY 14213
716-886-0771

Additional information on the Priscilla Project is available in our brochure.

The Priscilla Project works to achieve healthy birth outcomes by empowering socially isolated, at-risk women as they go through the process of pregnancy, labor, and delivery in the United States. Volunteer mentors and on-staff doulas work with refugee and immigrant women, as well as native-born American women to reach a healthy birth weight for their babies (5.5 lbs or larger) and have a full-term pregnancy.

Women in the program receive education in their own language and develop a birth plan with a doula. Doulas are able to advocate for clients based on their individual wishes. Priscilla Project clients also attend mentor/mentee events, where they learn about other services available to them in Buffalo.

Services provided by the Priscilla Project:

- Assessment by a community health worker

- Education on prenatal nutrition and baby care, doula services, and birth plan development in native language

- Referrals to donations centers for clothing and baby supplies

- Social outings and support events

- Opportunity to be matched with a volunteer mentor

- Opportunity to be enrolled in Parents as Teachers program, which provides support up to age 2

- In-house interpretation services

- Breastfeeding support and weekly Baby Café

Jericho Road - Baby Café

Anyone is welcome to attend Baby Café on any day, but language support is available for specific languages on the days listed below. If a woman would like support from the Baby Café and speaks a language not listed below, additional language support can be arranged.

Baby Café is held from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on the following days:

Mondays - Nepali

Tuesdays - Swahili, Kinyarwanda, French, Lingala, and Kirundi

Thursdays - Burmese and Karen

Fridays - Somali

Junior League of Rochester Diaper Bank

The Junior League of Rochester Diaper Bank addresses diaper need in Monroe County, as well as surrounding counties, by providing diapers and diapering supplies to partnership organizations and social workers. We collect diapers (including open packages and loose diapers), pull-ups, training pants, wipes, and diaper creams. We also collect monetary donations, which are used to purchase these supplies at deep discounts.

For more information email: diaperbank@jlroch.org.

Parenting Village
A Program of Jewish Family Services

255 East Ave #201, Rochester NY 14604

585-270-1832
Email: connect@parentingvillage.org

website: Parenting Village – Connecting Families, Supporting Caregivers

Parenting Village fosters the health and wellbeing of children and families in the Rochester area by offering support and connection for all families.

Parenting Village offers professionally facilitated drop-in support groups for caregivers; a home-based peer support program for families with new babies; and connection and collaboration events. These include an annual festival connecting families to local resources and ongoing community events.

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