The Assembling Community and Clinical Stakeholders to Empower and Strengthen Families (ACCESS)Task Force will host its first “Womb to World” Maternal Health Community Event on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Gainesville Empowerment Zone Family Center.
The free event will run from noon to 4 p.m. at 1250 NE 18th Ave., Bldg. 11, in Gainesville.
More than 25 maternal health and family resource vendors will be on hand, along with mini-information sessions, free family-friendly activities featuring face painting, games, raffles, and giveaways, as well as complimentary snow cones, pizza, and more.
Also at the event, there will be the UF Health OB/GYN Mobile Outreach Bus. Led by Dr. Adetola Louis-Jacques, a professor in the UF Health Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine program, attendees can receive services from the OB/GYN Mobile Outreach bus, which has been operating in the community for over eight months and delivers mobile maternal health services throughout North Central Florida.
