Mission and Vision

Mission

SACCounty Healthy Beginnings will promote a healthy and safe environment for Sacramento County’s families and children through outreach and education for professionals and community members, addressing perinatal substance use prevention and intervention.

Vision

Empowering families and children to thrive physically, socially, and emotionally, free from the effects of substance use and misuse in pregnancy.

Goals

1. Enhance the knowledge and skills of physicians, nurses, substance abuse treatment professionals, mental health professionals and other providers who deliver services to pregnant and parenting women to create a continuum of substance use and misuse prevention and intervention across the perinatal period and the span of childhood.

2. Promote community knowledge and decrease community stigma regarding perinatal substance use and misuse.