Comadres Program
Mother-to-Mother Education and Support; A team of fully trained doulas (birth assistants) provide prenatal and postpartum education and support through home visiting and community education.

Home Visiting Component
Home visiting includes for pregnant women includes individual prenatal education, doula birth accompaniment service, lactation support, postpartum care, referrals for clinical prenatal care, infant safety seat.

Safety Seat Component
Centro San Bonifacio Staff are Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians, and distribute infant child car seats.

Good Beginnings
The Comadres program offers intermediate-level courses focused on infant and maternal health. The �Un Buen Comienzo� (Good Beginnings) course consists of 8 two-hour sessions addressing a range of topics including prenatal nutrition, danger signs (during pregnancy), exercise, infant development, stages of the birth process, breastfeeding, doula accompaniment and support for expectant mothers, family planning, and infant security. In keeping with the �multiplier principle� of all our trainings, the intent of the Comadres staff and volunteers is that participants in these classes will be able to use the knowledge they gain in their own lives as well as with other women they know. The goal is health for both mother and child. Good luck Comadres with the �Un Buen Comienzo� initiative!

Community Education
The Comadres conduct group presentations on issues related to prenatal health and nutrition and child health and safety. They have served as instructors for the "Comenzando Bien" intermediate-level training course. The Comadres are trained in the area of asthma prevention and management, and also implement the “Open Airways for Schools Program.

Cancer Prevention & Detection
The Cancer Prevention and Early detection is a sub-program of Multipliers. This component focuses to provide information about Cervical, Prostate, Breast and Colon Cancer.

Through Group presentations and formal events of 40 participants we have reached over 1000 women each year, who received information how to prevent and detect on the early stage any type of cancer; specially, breast and cervical cancer..

For more information regarding Cancer prevention, call Maria Chavez at: 773-481-1981 ext: 115