Apart from physical care, the village health worker also provides mental healthcare services. She provides pregnancy physiotherapy care, pregnancy nutrition care and pregnancy dental hygeine care. She helps in prevention of addiction and de-addiction for pregnant mothers. She identifies risk factors in pregnancy and refers risky cases to standard higher centers. She assists in delivery services and provides post-delivery healthcare, both to the mother and to the newborn, and she cares for the baby until the age of one year. She also provides services for contraception. She coordinates with the public health system for better utilization of the public health services.

At any given point of time, the village health workers care for approximately 30,000 pregnant women. During a typical year, they provide services for approximately 30,000 deliveries and they take care of approximately 30,000 new babies.