Budget Function Description
Funding for the Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health (BMIRH): BMIRH promotes sexual, reproductive, maternal, perinatal and infant health. BMIRH educates and empowers New Yorkers, particularly at-risk populations, to make informed, responsible and healthy choices in their sexual and reproductive lives through programs aimed at increasing access to high-quality reproductive health care; increasing breastfeeding rates by encouraging maternity hospitals to implement breastfeeding-promoting practices; and implementing the NYC Nurse-Family Partnership to support new mothers and their families.