Pregnancy Resources in Williamsburg
Pregnancy Resources Brochure -- "Practical Help for You and Your Baby": local resources for you and your baby, both before and after it is born.
Pregnancy resources forum, October 26, 2005
On-Campus Resources
- focuses on early stages of pregnancy
- offers GYN exams/ PAP smears
- offers contraception, emergency contraception
- pregnancy test - $10
o negative result: counseling on contraception
o positive result: packet of info about:
§ Raising child
§ Adoption
§ Abortion
o other brochures offered as well
- No prenatal care
o Provide contact info, directions, help with making appointment at a local prenatal care location
o Williamsburg OBGYNs, Womancare of Williamsburg
- offers further counseling
- encourages both partners to attend counseling sessions
- Student Health Insurance
o most likely will not have to pay copays with this plan
o Business Manager at SHC can aid with getting Medicaid
o can add spouse, dependents to insurance plan
- if child is due beginning to mid-semester:
o student may have to leave for the remainder of the semester
o fill out 1-page form to do so
o can still register in their normal registration window for next semester
- if child is due late in the semester:
o work with professors to decrease workload, arrange for incompletes, reschedule final exams
§ possibly do exams through email, send them in or finish over the summer
o parking permits given if there are medical complications (resulting from stress, etc.)
- temporary parking permits available when back on campus to make getting to class easier, decrease course load again, work again to reschedule exams
- refers students to Child & Family Connection to facilitate child care
- focuses on ensuring that student makes conscious decision, does not rush
- counseling available for any decision student makes
- family housing at 502 Ludwell with 2 year waiting list
- student petitions Contract Release Committee to leave campus housing
Off-Campus Resources
- runs pregnancy care center located behind Colony Square shopping center
- open 10am - 4pm daily, staffed by community volunteers
- open Monday and Tuesday nights, staffed by W&M volunteers
- free pregnancy tests, free counseling for any family members
- makes layettes, given to mothers shortly before term
- offers post-abortion counseling
- located off Jamestown Road, 2 miles from Confusion Corner, across from Colony Square shopping center
- open Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- free pregnancy testing
- focuses on developing relationships with the women they help—45 minute-1 hour question session
- offers information on all 3 options
- Baby Boutique – attend parenting skills sessions to get credits towards items in the boutique
- offers post-abortion counseling
- love and truth are focuses
- developing programs for men as well
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- foodstamps
- Medicaid
- if living on campus, contact Williamsburg services; if living off-campus, contact social services for your respective locality—James City County, York County, etc.