Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Office of the Mayor has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, in partnership with the State’s Managed Care Plans. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $4,520,000.00 in grant monies to fund the coordination of maternal health programs in Franklin County for the period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.
The Ohio Department of Medicaid has awarded $4,520,000.00 to CelebrateOne and the City of Columbus to coordinate the implementation of maternal health programs in Franklin County. Over the next 2 years, grant funding will help expand CenteringPregnancy options to priority geographies through Heart of Ohio Family Health Centers and PrimaryOne Health, while also strengthening prenatal home visiting teams at OhioHealth, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Columbus Public Health. In addition, this grant will support culturally informed doula care through the community-based organization Restoring Our Own Through Transformation, maintain trauma-informed prenatal support through Moms2B, and provide support to the community’s information and referral line, StepOne for a Healthy Pregnancy. What’s more, the grant addresses gaps in service by increasing support for breastfeeding through the Black Lactation Circle, and teen outreach through The Center for Healthy Families. Finally, this grant ensures that the community’s strong core of community health workers at CelebrateOne, Men for the Movement, and the YMCA of Central Ohio continue to connect women and families to services and resources that support a healthy pregnancy.
The $4,520,000.00 will be appropriated across both the Office of the Mayor and Columbus Public Health, with $699,050.46 appropriated to Columbus Public Health for supporting community health workers and $707,601.11 for the Moms & Babies First home visiting program. Additionally, $3,113,348.43 will be appropriated to the Office of the Mayor for the purpose of contracting with communit...
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