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Project Name: Healthy Start Initiative-Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities (H49)
Applicant Title: THE CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY, INC.
Abstract Text: Project Title: Gadsden Federal Healthy Start: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health – Supplement: Action Plans for Infant Health Equity Name: Center for Health Equity, Inc. Address: 231 East Jefferson Street, Quincy, FL 32351 Project Director Name: Sharon Ross-Donaldson, LCSW Contact: VOICE xxx-xxx-xxxx FAX xxx-xxx-xxxx Email: xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Web: www.centerforhealthequity.com Request: $80,000 one-time funding opportunity Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health Supplement: Action Plan for Infant Health Equity PROJECT DESCRIPTION Gadsden County, an impoverished rural community, has one of the highest infant mortality rates, low birth weight and other poor birth outcomes among African American Women in Florida. The Gadsden Federal Healthy Start Project (known as Gadsden Woman to Woman) provides outreach, education, case management/care coordination, and behavioral health services (where appropriate) to African American pregnant and pre- and interconceptional women who are at risk for a poor birth and health outcomes as well as their infants/children and father/male partners. The Project works collaboratively with other service sectors/providers to integrate, expand, and strengthen the maternal and child health system of care in Gadsden County and eliminate disparities in perinatal health. The overarching goal for GFHSP is to reduce the high rate of preventable morbidity and premature infant mortality. GFHSP will utilize HRSA supplement funding to create an action plan in the rural project area where the project currently offers HS services to look at racial disparities in IM and adverse perinatal outcomes.