BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas — The Brazos County Health Department will be offering monthly emergency preparedness classes starting next week to help young mothers get the support they need during hard times.
“As you look at our society today and our community, mothers are becoming mothers at an earlier age and a lot of times they don't have that family support. They don’t have someone telling them what to do and when they have that child, they’re just lost and on their own,” said mother and Community Equity Coordinator, Felicia Benford.
With a lack of emergency education, these young women would be otherwise unprepared in the event they do suddenly become mothers. In fact, when Community Health Services Manager Barbara Jeffers investigated what measures the county had in place in the event of a catastrophic emergency, she found herself taken aback at the lack of resources, and decided to protect this demographic through grant money received from the CDC.
“We landed on the go bags, the contents of the go bags are; the educational piece about emergency preparedness--we put three medical things in there--COVID, RSV and the flu, but it also has a resource guide of resources they can get in Brazos County,” explained Jeffers.
The first class will have a limit of 12 mothers, but classes will continue on the third Saturday of every month.
“We’re open to the whole community," Benford said. "The reason why we kept the number low is as the mothers come in, that small number, we want to be able to work with them one on one if they need that.”
Click here for more information on how to register for the class.
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