Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Franklin County Board of Health to provide tobacco cessation services for the Community Cessation Initiative. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $26,000.00 in grant monies for the period of November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018.
The Franklin County CCI Grant program will support initiatives of the Baby and Me Tobacco Free Smoking Cessation Program at Columbus Public Health by providing funds for additional support staff and supplies. Currently, the program is managed and administered by one Public Health Nurse who maintains certification as a tobacco treatment specialist. Between 2015 and 2016, enrollment in the program increased from 38 to 97 participants. Of the 2016 program graduates, 87% remained smoke free through the baby’s first year of life. Also, 100% of the program graduates delivered full-term, healthy babies.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so a delay in service does not occur since the grant started November 1, 2017.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Franklin County CCI grant program is fully funded ($26,000.00) by the Franklin County Board of Health and does not require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Franklin County Board of Health to provide tobacco cessation services for the Community Cessation Initiative grant program in the amount of $26,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $26,000.00 to the Health Department in the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($26,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $26,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Franklin County Board of Health Community Cessation Initiative grant program for the period of November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Franklin County Board of Health for the support of the Community Cessation Initiative gran...
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