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Best Practices: Services and Supports for Street-Involved Pregnant and Parenting Women - A Review of the Literature. Written by Krista Brower (Charis Management Consulting for Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research). 2012. 

"Best Practices" is a literature review undertaken by the H.E.R. (Healthy, Empowered, Resilient) Pregnancy program, which utilizes a combination of "peer-support and professional staff [as well as]...health-care workers" to assist and support women in Edmonton's low-income downtown area who are pregnant, parenting, or at risk to become pregnant" (Brower,12, 2012). This literature review focuses on programs run by organizations across Canada who are working on initiatives that are similar to H.E.R. with the intent of exploring models of service delivery and best practices for providing community-based support for street-involved pregnant women. This literature review serves a dual purpose of allowing H.E.R. Pregnancy Program to evaluate their own effectiveness and success, while also providing a resource for the different programs in Canada that focus on this issue.

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