City of Milwaukee Health Department's Family and Community Health

The Department of Family and Community Health offers a range of family-focused support to promote healthy births and child development. They provide multiple home-visiting programs where nurses and social workers deliver prenatal and postnatal health checks, parenting education, developmental screening, and personalized care planning. The department also runs specialized services like the BOMB doula program for birth support, the Strong Baby initiative focused on safe sleep and infant mortality prevention, and WIC nutrition assistance for at-risk women, infants, and children. Additionally, they handle newborn screenings and offer guidance on breastfeeding, immunizations, and connecting families to community health resources.