- Nashville program patterned after MyBaby4Me program in Memphis
- Rally held Saturday at Ephesians Primitive Baptist Church.
- The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints and Catholic Charities to help lead MyBaby4Me with a number of other community partners.
- Education and support that includes food, transportation and more being offered.
Julia Mejia had a simple goal that drove her and infant daughter Sophia to attend a rally to launch a new program designed to address a complex problem of hopelessness many mothers and children experience in North Nashville.
“I’m a young mom and I think it’s going to help me raise my kids better,” Mejia, 27, said with Sophia beside her Saturday at Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church 22nd Avenue North where the rally was held.
MyBaby4Me is the program designed to target infant and maternal mortality rates mainly in the 37208 zip code that organizers say is two to three times higher than the national average.
“This is a solution to curtail some things,” Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church Pastor Cornelius Hill said as part of an opening prayer that joined the sound of babies crying.