Missouri will receive $5.7 million in federal funding to send trained professionals into the homes of expectant parents and families with young children, including families in St. Louis.
The home visitors help with healthy pregnancies, child development and parenting while connecting families with health care and other services.
In St. Louis, that work takes place against a troubling backdrop: Black babies in urban Missouri die before their first birthday at nearly three times the rate of White babies, and Black women statewide are 2½ times as likely as White women to die from pregnancy-related causes…