The Northwest Center

 CELEBRATING LIFE and INSPIRING HOPE since 1983

The Pregnancy Center is a community outreach program that provides free pregnancy tests, counseling, material assistance (such as maternity clothes and baby supplies), and referrals for pre-natal and medical care, legal services, housing, educational opportunities and job training.  Clients are educated on all the life-affirming choices open to her for a resolution of the problems surrounding a positive pregnancy test. 

After the immediate needs of the client are met, she may meet with a qualified social worker to discuss her dreams and goals, what she considers to be her strengths and her challenges and what she feels she needs to work on first.  Sometimes resolution of health problems, housing, income support, mental health therapy, are issues that need to be attended to before the client can attain the goals she has set for herself.  Appropriate referrals are then made for the client. 

Goals Meetings are then held with a caseworker at least every month after her initial visit. The purpose of these meetings is to troubleshoot problems that arose since the last meeting, provide affirmation for goals met, and provide the opportunity for the client to set new goals for herself. This is what the client commits to in order to receive material assistance, such as diapers, formula, and clothing.

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