BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to accept and appropriate $107,000.00 in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Ohio Department of Health for the Child Injury Prevention grant program, for the period October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.
This project will work to decrease drowning deaths and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). We 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 schools within Columbus City School District. We 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.
Columbus Public Health received the NOA for this grant on August 27, 2024; therefore, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency in order to not delay these critical services and to ensure funds are available by the grant start date of October 1, 2024.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible due to the grant start period of October 1, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is fully funded ($107,000.00) 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 and direct the Board of Health to accept grant funds from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $107,000.00 and any additional funds for the Child Injury Prevention grant program; to authorize the appropriation of funds, including any additional funds, from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants ...
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