City of Columbus - File #: 0480-2025

• File #: 0480-2025
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/13/2025
• In control: Health, Human Services, & Equity Committee
• On agenda: 3/24/2025
• Final action: 3/27/2025
• Title: To authorize the Executive Director of the Office of CelebrateOne to accept a grant extension from the Ohio Department of Medicaid for the Enhanced Maternal Health Program in the amount of $2,260,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $2,260,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grants Fund; and to authorize contracts and expenditures with multiple community partner sub-grantees for the Enhanced Maternal Health Program in Columbus and Central Ohio up to $1,650,000.00; and to expend up to $610,000.00 of this grant for CelebrateOne Community Health Workers' work with CelebrateOne pregnant and parenting families and to declare an emergency. ($2,260,000.00)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/27/2025	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
3/26/2025	1	ACTING MAYOR	Signed
3/24/2025	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
3/24/2025	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass

Explanation

BACKGROUND: The Office of CelebrateOne has been awarded a grant extension from the Ohio Department of Medicaid which is administered by the State’s Managed Care Plans. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $2,260,000.00 in grant monies to fund the Enhanced Maternal Health Program for the period January 1st, 2025 through December 31st, 2025 and to declare an emergency.

The Ohio Department of Medicaid awarded the 2022-2024 grant to the Office of CelebrateOne at the City of Columbus to coordinate the Enhanced Maternal Health Program in Franklin County. CelebrateOne has been designated as the primary grantee organization and administrator for this grant for Franklin County. The Ohio Department of Medicaid extended the grant period from January 1st, 2025 to December 31, 2025.

With the extension funding, the Office of CelebrateOne will establish contracts with up to fourteen (14) community partners in order to provide health and education services to expecting moms and moms of children under one (1) year of age. Many of the partners were contracted during the original grant period of July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024 and they have remaining work to complete through the end of 2025.

Grant funding will provide continued investment in Centering Pregnancy options in priority geographies through Heart of Ohio Family Health Centers and PrimaryOne Health, while also strengthening prenatal home visiting teams at Center for Healthy Families. Additional health care support for pre- and post-natal parents will be provided by Lower Lights Christian Health Center.

In addition, this grant provides support for culturally informed doula care with mOBINurses, Inc., maintains trauma-informed prenatal support through Moms2B, and provides support to the information and referral line, StepOne for a Healthy Pregnancy. This grant addresses gaps in service by increasing support for teen outreach through The Center for Healthy Families, provides new sup...