The mission of Maternal and Child Health Access is to improve the health of low income women and families  through advocacy, education, training and direct services.

MCHA provides information, support, and technical assistance to health and social service organizations and assists individual women to achieve healthy pregnancies, enroll in health coverage and other programs and retain benefits, and obtain quality health care for themselves and their families.  MCHA also educates policymakers and the general public to improve the health and social services systems for all low income women and families and to benefit the entire community in which we live.

About Our Site

Our Programs and Services links include:

• "Training and Education" with materials used at Core "We've Got You Covered!" trainings, including our popular income charts for health care programs, our program fact sheets and our colorful bar chart illustrating the many health programs available in the state and Los Angeles County.
• "Perinatal Outreach and Education," about our direct services work with pregnant and parenting women;
• "Breastfeeding Support Groups," to know more about the remarkable success our clients have had breastfeeding;
• "Outreach and Education," our program that serves the health care coverage and services needs for low-income people;
• "Health Education," about our weekly classes with our clients;
• "Monthly Meetings" lists minutes from our policy, advocacy and networking meetings held the third Thursday of the month;
• and our "Women's Art Collective.

Our Policy and Advocacy links provide information on Maternal and Child Health-related legislation and alerts. Be sure to check out our Calendar for the details on upcoming events and to sign up for trainings. Join our mailing lists under About MCHA. You may choose from our quarterly newsletters, monthly mailing, healthcare advocate or newborn enrollment list serve. If you would like to contribute to MCHA, please see our Donations links. Here you can make a secure donation with a credit card. You can also peruse our "Wish List" of items for the office and our clients. We are deeply grateful for your financial and material support.

And don’t miss our changing MCHA photos in the lower left-hand corner as you peruse the site. Let us know what you think at info@mchaccess.org and watch our website features GROW!