Latina-owned co-ops help with language translation, maternal health [Video]

EDGEWATER, Colo. — Two Latina-led workers cooperatives are helping provide critical services to the Jefferson County community and surrounding areas.

Cuenta Conmigo Co-op provides maternal health care services to new moms and the Rocky Mountain Language Cooperative provides translation services to Spanish-speakers. Both are a part of the Edgewater Collective, a nonprofit that helps support Latino-owned businesses.

“Cuenta Conmigo is a community group that emerged from this deep interest in supporting each other during the times of raising our little ones. So it’s focused on maternal and child health,” said Cuenta Conmigo Co-Director Paulina Erices.

Through a cultural lens, the co-op provides lactation, nutrition, and mental health services to parents while also providing them with community and cultural connections, Erices said.

Cuenta Conmigo is helping new mothers at the Edgewater’s Collective

“We do home visits, phone visits, calls to families who are raising a little one… We do classes for child care providers, for community leaders, sometimes a counselor,” …