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 $117,875.00 in grant money to fund the Maternal and Child Health grant program, for the period October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020.
The public health priorities this MCHP project will address are: decreasing childhood obesity; improving adolescent health and building resiliency to achieve the best possible outcomes; decreasing fetal and infant mortality, addressing social determinants of health, and addressing health inequities and disparities through provision of the Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) program. The CPH Healthy Children, Healthy Weights Program (HCHW) will address the measure of reducing the percentage of children who are overweight by working with childcare centers to increase nutrition education, access to healthy food choices and physical activity. The Adolescent Health activities involve CPH developing an implementation plan with strategies to assist community agencies on increasing and improving activities and removing barriers for adolescents receiving programming to improve nutrition, receive life plan/goal setting, increasing physical activity, and other needs. CPH’s FIMR is an action-oriented quality improvement process that assesses, monitors and works to improve service systems and community resources for women, infants and families. In 2018 the Case Review Team (CRT) reviewed a total of 48 cases (33 fetal, 15 infant). Many cases included a family interview.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to continue the support of all activities for the Maternal and Child Health grant program.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Maternal and Child Health 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 requi...
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