Opportunities From: Volunteers United

Purpose for Volunteer Position: After several months of dedication and planning led by SSCHC Midwives, Sixteenth Street is excited to begin offering Group Prenatal Care to our patients! This comprehensive group care will provide essential prenatal services to our patients of a similar gestational age in a group cohort setting, focusing on promoting early access to care and providing integrated healthcare, education, and supportive services to our patients. The groups will be offered monthly, and child enrichment activities will be provided for the duration of the group visit, led by our Parenting Resource Center.  Child enrichment volunteers will assist family educators from the Parenting Resource Center in leading 2-3 planned educational activities for the children of patients registered for group prenatal care. They will then provide parents with a summary of activities completed during the session and the developmental benefits of each. Volunteers should be excited to work with children and facilitate a learning environment. Groups will be 90 minutes each plus set up and clean up.

Benefits to the volunteer: Volunteering provides an opportunity to build/practice your Spanish skills, and community engagement and/or teaching abilities while improving the health of women, infants and children in a community based healthcare setting.  This is a great resume builder for anyone interested in maternal and child health, community strengthening, social work, or early childhood education and others.  We are flexible in what projects or tasks you may want to help organize, just bring your ideas!

Current sessions are some Tuesdays 10:30 - 12:00 and 1:00 - 2:30. By late July, sessions will be added on Wednesdays.   

Help us show appreciation for our healthcare heroes by adopting a clinic! This is a wonderful opportunity to work with a group of friends, family, or colleagues to bring sweet treats or items of appreciation for one (or more) of our clinic healthcare staff. Whether it's bringing bakery goods, planning a pizza party, or donating self-care supplies, you are helping to make a difference for those on the frontlines battling COVID-19. 

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers is proud to serve our patients from various walks of life. In some cases, basic necessities can make a difference. That is where you come in! 

Host a care package drive this holiday season. Your team's drive can include the following items: 

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers delivered over 700 babies in the last year in Milwaukee and Milwaukee and our midwives are nationally recognized by the American College of Nurse-Midwives for their excellent outcomes.

To promote prenatal care participation and health behaviors during pregnancy, our Parenting Resource Center provides incentives and education for new parents on a variety of positive, health-promoting activities.

We would love help gathering some items that will be given to new moms and their babies to set them up for a healthy life. Your organization can help us by hosting a Mom and Baby starter kit item drive.

Items include: