Pregnant, don't know what to do?

Contact me with any of your sexual or maternal health questions or concerns. Together we’ll make a plan of action that you are comfortable with. My aim is to support you and assist you to meet your personal goals through the transformation of adolescence, womanhood, and childbirth. 

 

About me

Christie Johnson is a women’s health consultant presently managing training and educational services in the Bronx, NY. Professional experiences in varied settings have provided her the hands on expertise and tools necessary to manage complicated and sensitive maternal and sexual health needs. Having worked in the United States, the Philippines, and Tanzania, Ms. Johnson has excelled as a peer educator, lecturer, research advisor, and capacity building technical expert.

My philosophy

     Informed women make the best choices for themselves.

     Empowerment means having the confidence, the support and the material resources to actually enact those choices.

     A woman has the right to chose what to do with her body.

     Every woman that needs support should have access to it.

     Every woman, even superwomen, needs support.

After carefully analyzing data that I collected in the Philippines as part of a programmatic assessment of a government sponsored family planning program, I observed a positive relationship between informed contraceptive choice and having access to an empowered peer educator. From this research, I developed and refined a model of empowerment for peer health educators promoting sexual health services.

Biography

I have worked to empower women, families, and communities for over a decade. I have served this mission in a variety of capacities, as a Congressional Liaison for the Department of Health and Human Services; as a researcher for nongovernmental agencies, and governments; as a lecturer; and as a peer educator. Most recently, I provided advisement of governmental capacity building activities aiming to strengthen support for persons living with HIV/AIDS in rural Tanzania. As a social worker in the Bronx, New York, I have developed and implemented personalized treatment plans to prevent the removal of children from vulnerable households impacted by domestic violence, incest, and poverty. I am particularly an proud of my work as a lecturer at a leading Social Work Institute in Tanzania, where I developed the ‘Technician Certificate Course in Social Work and HIV/AIDS Intervention’, which was approved by the Tanzanian National Council for Technical Education (NACTE).