Pregnancy and Parenting Support

We provide emotional Support through our warmline and in-person appointments. Our warmline is staff ed by our two, bilingual spanish family doulas who are perinatal mental health certified (pmh-c). We offer our clients free psychotherapy with pmh-c clinicians through a partnership with community counseling center that is funded by first 5 San Luis obispo.client visits were up over 45%, with 1,685 visits for the year. We facilitated 600 more clients visits in 2023 than 2022. We onboarded 275 new clients in 2023 compared to 167 in 2022. In 2022, pps sponsored 442 hours of therapy services,but in 2023 that number increased by 50% to 663.5.

Pps is the baby bank for San Luis Obispo county. Local families shop our "store" of infant essentials for free. We distribute basic needs such as maternity and babyclothes, diapers, wipes, formula and baby food, nursing supplies, baby equipment and car seats. Pps staff are certified car seat technicians and instruct our clients on how to properly install car seats and safely position their children. We're the ultimate baby recycling program as we accept donations of gently used baby items that we sanitize and then distribute to local families in need.we distributed 1,443 (917 in 2022) clothing orders, 1,530 (967 in 2022) packages of diapers, and 521 (367 in 2022) cans of formula. We welcomed 275 new families in 2023, that's a 65% increase from the previous year. We distributed $70,000 in infant essentials in 2023. Diapers were distributed at 91% of client appointments and formula was provided at 30%. 86% of our clients needed clothing and we distributed 88 layettes to expecting parents.