Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Ohio Department of Health. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $110,000.00 in grant money to fund the Child Injury Prevention grant program, for the period October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.
This project will work to decrease drowning deaths and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Child Injury Prevention will work to increase protective factors for children experiencing ACEs that lead to adverse health outcomes by making a system change that will expand evidence-based prevention programming for 3rd through 5th grade children at a high risk school within Columbus City School District. Child Injury Prevention will decrease the rate of child drowning by evaluating and mobilizing the Safe Kids Central Ohio coalition and local partners, making system changes to increase access to swimming lessons and caregiver education and making environmental changes at hazardous bodies of water.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to continue the support of all activities for the Child Injury Prevention grant program in time for the beginning of the grant period on October 1, 2023
FISCAL IMPACT: The Child Injury Prevention grant program is entirely funded by the grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Ohio Department of Health and does not generate revenue or require a City Match.
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To authorize the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $110,000.00 for the Child Injury Prevention grant program; to authorize the appropriation of $110,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($110,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $110,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Ohio Department of Health for the Child Injury Prevention grant program for the period of O...
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