Budgeting and Saving for Family Planning

Knowing how to budget and save money can help you make informed decisions about all aspects of your life, such as if and when to have children or prepare for a new addition to your family. Use the information and tools in this toolkit to help you make the most of your money, reach your financial goals faster, or know when you may need assistance.

American Sexual Health Association (ASHA)

ASHA empowers individuals, families, and communities to achieve sexually healthy lives through education and advocacy. They provide information and resources on sexuality and reproductive health that are reliable, science-based, and stigma-free.

Sexual Health for Youth in Care (SYNC)

Children’s Home Society of North Carolina (CHS) offers an innovative SYNC program with the goal of providing free sexual health education for both out-of-home teens and the professionals who work with them. With Health Education Trainers across the state, SYNC utilizes evidence-based approaches that have been proven to reduce the prevalence of teen pregnancy, unhealthy relationships, and STI/STDs, while increasing self-awareness and empowering decision-making – all needs that are more prevalent with youth in care.

Family Planning Services

Comprehensive services provide a complete examination, pap and lab tests, a full range of birth control options, plus education and counseling. Information is available in English and Spanish.

Call 336-641-3245 to schedule an appointment in Greensboro or High Point

Regional Vasectomy Program

The Regional Vasectomy Program, based at the Guilford County Division of Public Health, helps provide men with vasectomy services. This program, sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, is open to any male who is 21 years of age or older.

Planned Parenthood Birth Control Quiz

Explore available contraception options and find the one that fits into your life with this interactive quiz from Planned Parenthood.

CenteringPregnancy 

Sponsored by the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, CenteringPregnancy is prenatal care that includes health assessments, education and support. Individuals with similar due dates meet for their prenatal visits with two co-facilitators about 10 times during their pregnancy in the same Centering room. Each session lasts for about two hours with no time in the waiting and is facilitated by a Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant and a Nurse or Childbirth Educator.

Cone Health Pregnancy  & Parenting Classes

Cone Health offers classes in Greensboro that are designed to help everyone in your family prepare for and adjust to life with a newborn.

Prepared Childbirth Classes at the Guilford County Department of Public Health

Sponsored by the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services, the Division of Public Health Prepared Childbirth Classes in person to help moms, birthing people, and their partners prepare for a healthy delivery and beyond. Whether you're a first-time birthing person or you've been through labor before, childbirth classes are a great way to get ready to welcome your newborn baby into the world. In the four-week class, parents will learn about signs of labor, medications and interventions, new mom care, breastfeeding, infant care, and more. Classes will be held one night a week for four weeks from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Call 336-641-4718 to register for childbirth classes. Medicaid covers the cost of the classes for individuals and their partners. For individuals without Medicaid, the class is $45.00 for the series.

Care Management for High Risk Pregnant People (CMHRP)

Sponsored by the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, a free care management service available to pregnant individuals enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid and to a limited number of low income, uninsured pregnant individuals. Pregnancy Care Managers are registered nurses or social workers who will work with birthing people and your prenatal care provider to ensure the best possible care during pregnancy and up to sixty days after delivery.

Nurse Family Partnership

Sponsored by GenerationEd, Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based nurse home visitation program that provides nurse home visitation to low-income, first-time mothers. A nurse home visitor educates the birthing person about the growth and development of her baby and helps them become more self-sufficient. 

Healthy Beginnings Program: YWCA Greensboro and YWCA High Point

The Greensboro and High Point YWCAs offer Healthy Beginnings, a personalized program for minority individuals and their children. The evidence-based program seeks to help birthing people have healthy pregnancies and healthy children and maintain a healthy lifestyle between pregnancies. Eligible individuals must be pregnant or no more than 60 days postpartum, and services continue up to 2 years after the baby’s birth. For more information contact Tishonna Brown at 336-457-5258 or tbrown@ywcagsonc.org

A Healthy Start Triad Baby Love Plus Program 

Sponsored by Piedmont Health Services Sickle Cell Agency, Triad Baby Love Plus (TBLP) is a free program designed to promote healthy pregnancies, positive birth outcomes and provide participants with the knowledge and resources needed to give babies their best start in life.

Guilford Family Connects 

Sponsored by the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Guilford Family Connects offers nurse home visits to all deliveries in Guilford County. Nurse home visits provide support, education, and early identification and referral of health & safety concerns.

Healthy Start

Sponsored  by Family Service of the Piedmont, Healthy Start is a home-based support program that works with pregnant individuals and new parents with stress factors that make parenting an even tougher job.  Home Visitors help parents to nurture their children's development and create a positive living environment for their families.

Mahogany Milk Support Group

The mission of Mahogany Milk Support Group is to promote, encourage, and normalize nursing for Black and Brown families. Their goal is to break socio-cultural stereotypes by providing families of color with education and support throughout their nursing journey. They are accepting of all breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and bodyfeeding families in the community.

Cone Health

Cone Health offers Breastfeeding Support Groups allow birthing people to gather with other new birthing people to share breastfeeding stories, challenges and triumphs, get help from a certified lactation consultant, and weigh your baby on an infant scale.

Breastfeed NC

Breastfeed NC is a hub for evidence-based information and resources for people who breastfeed, their partners, and other family members in order to support their chestfeeding journey.

HealthySteps Specialists 

Sponsored by Children’s Home Society of NC, HealthySteps is evidence-based, interdisciplinary pediatric primary care program that ensures babies and toddlers receive nurturing parenting and have healthy development. Specialists meet with parents of children birth to age 3 at children’s well-child visits in pediatric offices in Guilford County.

Care Management for At-Risk Children (CMARC)

Sponsored by the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Care Management for At-Risk Children (CMARC) provides free case management service for eligible children from birth up to five years of age. The program serves children born at risk for developmental delays, children who have difficulty learning to speak or doing other things that a typical toddler or preschooler can, children whose parents have a concern that “something isn’t right”.

MyVision

A free digital resource led by expert ophthalmologists and optometrists to provide trusted information on eye health and vision.  When infants are first born, their vision skills are not yet fully developed. Instead, babies go through various stages of eyesight development throughout the first two years of their lives. This guide informs parents about their child's vision development and covers topics like the stages of eyesight development, signs of potential vision issues, what parents can do to help with development, and more! 

Guilford County Behavioral Health Centers

The Guilford County Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center will provide timely access to mental health services for children and adolescents (age 4 - 17) and adults presenting in a mental health crisis. The program is designed for those who need urgent behavioral health or substance use treatment and are not experiencing a medical crisis that would typically require an emergency room visit.

Kellin Foundation: Support Groups

The Kellin Foundation offers a variety of support groups that connect people with similar experiences in a encouraging environment to promote wellness and healing. Support groups are free to attend.

Nami Guilford

NAMI Guilford is an organization of families, friends and individuals whose lives have been affected by mental illness. Together, we advocate for better lives for those individuals who have a mental illness.

Family Services of the Piedmont

Family Service of the Piedmont’s professional therapists provide individual and family counseling for children, adolescents and adults dealing with substance abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, anger management, depression, anxiety, family stress, physical abuse, sexual abuse, family dysfunction, grief or marital problems. Services are offered on a sliding fee scale with costs as low as $0 depending on income level. Medicaid is accepted.

Kellin Foundation: Education and Outreach

The Kellin Foundation offers evidence-based and nationally-recognized workshops led by certified instructors to individuals, families, businesses, churches, first responders, schools, community groups, and any other interested group.

Mental Health Test

Use this Screening Tool from Mental Health American to help understand different types of mental health challenges. Mental Health America also has resources and tools to help you manage your mental health issues. If you screen positive for a mental health condition, they will recommend resources.

Mental Health Myths and Facts

Information from the Sustance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration