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The Priscilla Project: Facilitating Equality and the Self-empowerment of At-risk Women in Healthcare Encounters

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Women and minorities have consistently experienced marginalization and inequality in the United States, with low-income, immigrant and refugee women experiencing the most severe forms. This paper explores how we can restructure one area in which disparities exist, the primary healthcare system, to provide respectful, compassionate, accessible and adequate care to refugee and low-income women who are medically at-risk during pregnancy. This will be done by reviewing the Priscilla Project, an inner-city program that serves at-risk pregnant women in Buffalo, NY, including the history and persistence of disparities in healthcare, activities and impact of the program, and the uniquely contextualized program paradigm.

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Acknowledgments

The Priscilla Project is partially funded by grants from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, the Creative Ministries of the Presbyterian Women, the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation, and the Presbytery of Western New York. The authors would like to thank these organizations for their support, as well as the involvement and commitment of all of the women who participate in the Priscilla Project.

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  1. Jericho Road Ministries, Inc., 184 Barton St., Buffalo, NY, 14213, USA

    Alicia B. W. Clifton & Jimmy Rowe

  2. Primary Care Research Institute, Department of Family Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, 462 Grider St. CC128, Buffalo, NY, 14215, USA

    Renee Cadzow

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Clifton, A.B.W., Cadzow, R. & Rowe, J. The Priscilla Project: Facilitating Equality and the Self-empowerment of At-risk Women in Healthcare Encounters. Gend. Issues 26, 141–151 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-009-9075-y

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