How WHIN Cares Supports Women and Families Across Detroit and Southeast Michigan—One Service at a Time.
WHIN Cares provides culturally responsive, continuous doula support throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. Our doulas offer emotional, physical, and informational support, helping families navigate pregnancy with confidence while promoting healthy birth outcomes, reducing unnecessary interventions, and improving the overall childbirth experience.
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WHIN Cares offers individualized lactation education and breastfeeding support to help mothers achieve their infant feeding goals. Services include prenatal breastfeeding education, postpartum lactation consultations, infant feeding assessments, pumping guidance, and ongoing support to improve breastfeeding success, maternal confidence, and infant health.
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WHIN Cares provides trauma-informed behavioral and mental health services that address the emotional well-being of women during pregnancy and throughout the postpartum period. Licensed professionals offer screening, counseling, care coordination, and referrals for conditions such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and perinatal mood disorders, helping mothers build resilience and strengthen family well-being.
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Community health workers coordinate appointments and transportation from pregnancy through the postpartum year. The point is continuity: one team that knows the family, rather than a system the family has to navigate alone.
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WHIN Cares supports pregnant and postpartum women affected by substance use through compassionate, nonjudgmental care focused on recovery, education, and healthy parenting. Services include early screening, peer recovery support, behavioral health referrals, care coordination, relapse prevention, and connections to treatment programs, helping mothers achieve long-term recovery while improving maternal and infant health outcomes.
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Classes and one-to-one education covering birth preparation, newborn care, safe sleep, infant CPR and culturally rooted nutrition. Education is delivered in families' own languages, in the neighborhoods where they live.
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Community-based wellness programming, advocacy and referrals that connect women and families to the care and resources they are entitled to. Enrolling families in the coverage they qualify for is part of the work, not an afterthought to it.
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