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Breastfeeding Peer-Counseling
This program promotes breastfeeding as the preferred method of infant feeding and hopes to increase the incidence and duration of breastfed infants in the WIC-eligible Latino population.

This program engages pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, as well as their partners, and maintains a relationship with WIC mothers during their pregnancy and after delivery.


The program offers breastfeeding education sessions, mothers support group meetings, counseling and general support to WIC-eligible pregnant women and new mothers.

For more information contact:


Marlene Aguiñaga
Breastfeeding Peer Counselor
(302) 295-2160 ext. 7723
MAguinaga@thelatincenter.org

Hours:
Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Eligibility: Pregnant women and/or breastfeeding mothers
Service Fee: None

Niños Bien Educados
Latino parents, especially those who primarily speak Spanish, face unique challenges in raising children in the United States. Los Niños Bien Educados Program teaches parenting skills from within a Latino cultural frame, parents learn effective skills and strategies for promoting and maintaining those child behaviors that they define as reflective of a child who is “bien educado,” in both a social and academic sense.

For more information contact:

Receptionist at:
(302) 655-7338

Hours: Thursdays, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Eligibility: Anyone Interested
Service Fee: Work books

Parent Aid Services
Parent Aid Services are home-based services geared to focus on client needs that are identified jointly by DSCYF and the LACC. The Parent Aide provides a continuum of support services to help families resolve issues which place children at risk of harm and neglect. The intention of this program is to provide intervention services thereby preventing families from needing deeper-end-services.

For more information contact:

Gela Petrucelli
Program Director
(302) 655-7338 ext. 224
GPetrucelli@thelatincenter.org

or

Alexandra Perella
Case Management Supervisor
(302) 655-7338 ext. 221
APerella@thelatincenter.org

Hours:
Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Eligibility: Referrals from DFS only



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