The North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center has been in existence for seventeen (17) years and has provided services to more than 30,000 women experiencing unplanned and/or crisis pregnancies. Although the North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center’s clientele consist of people from the entire city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the primary service area is North Baton Rouge. North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center has a highly qualified team of caring and compassionate professionals who offer intervention counseling, medical, and support and core services to women and their families.

Similar to crisis pregnancy centers across the nation, North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center addresses issues regarding women’s emotional and physical needs, providing counseling, assisting with clothing for mothers and children, food, employment, housing referrals, and other appropriate services. North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center is the initial and most critical contact for thousands of Baton Rouge’s minority, young, and low-income pregnant women, who and their babies, are at risk of poor pregnancy outcomes.

North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center has participated in the Louisiana Life Choice Project, which began in 2002. Also, North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center has gained vital experience in participating as a collaborative partner in the statewide and state-funded network of service providers through its participation in this project. This experience as a member of a statewide network of pregnancy resource centers provided the knowledge of how to work successfully with collaborative partners.

North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center has worked to expand and enhance its services by educating pregnant women on the importance of early prenatal care, and improved the pregnancy and birth outcomes of Baton Rouge women. Since its inception, North Baton Rouge Women’s Help Center has adopted a comprehensive approach to addressing the prenatal and postnatal needs of pregnant women. This comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of pregnant women also became a leading factor in the Center seeking to provide programs that promote abstinence.