Emerging Practice

Healing, Empowering, Actively Recovering Together (HEART)

State/Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Setting: Community
Population: Infant Women & Maternal
Topic Area: Access to Quality Healthcare Mental Health & Substance Use
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The HEART program is a pilot designed to improve outcomes for pregnant/parenting women with opioid use disorder and their children, who often have neonatal abstinence syndrome. This community-based program was initiated in 2018 based on a community needs assessment that found a significant need for carrying out a plan of safe care in a district with a high and increasing number of NAS cases and a high SUID rate. The HEART program was designed to integrate and co-locate services for mothers and their children within the Local Health Department. The program consists of weekly four-hour sessions for enrolled women, and provides a combination of parenting classes, community resources, and peer support.


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CONTACT INFORMATION
Kentucky Department for Public Health
Henrietta Bada, MD, MPH
henrietta.bdaa@ky.gov
(502) 564-4830
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