Explanation
Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $117,420.00 in grant monies to fund the 2018-2019 Moms Quit for Two Grant Program for the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019.
Smoking during pregnancy remains one of the most preventable causes of infant mortality (CDC, 2004). According to 2015 data released by the Ohio Department of Health, 20.4% of all Ohio mothers and 23.4% of Franklin County WIC recipients reported smoking before or during pregnancy. The purpose of the Moms Quit for Two Program, an evidence-based smoking cessation program, is to increase smoking cessation rates among pregnant and postpartum women, by offering individualized tobacco cessation treatment, monitoring progress, and providing incentives for remaining smoke-free. This program aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce low birth weights and preterm birth rates, and increase overall quit rates as part of a larger strategy to reduce infant mortality.
Between 2016 and 2017, enrollment in the Baby & Me Tobacco Free program increased from 97 to 148 participants. For those program graduates in 2017, 88% remained smoke free through the baby’s first year of life. In 2017, 45 healthy babies were delivered to mothers in the program; only 3 babies were born less than 37 weeks gestation and 2 of those babies were twins. Additionally, the Baby & Me Tobacco Free Program expanded adding one full time Public Health Nurse and 12 new partnerships.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so a delay in service does not occur since the grant starts July 1, 2018.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is fully funded by the Ohio Department of Health and does not generate revenue or require a City match ($117,420.00).
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Health for the Moms Quit for Two grant program in the amount of $117,420.00; to auth...
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