Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
PROJECT ABSTRACT Project Title: Midwest Healthy Start (MWHS) Applicant Organization: SGA Youth & Family Services, NFP Applicant Organization Address: 11 East Adams, Suite 240, Chicago, Illinois 60603 Applicant Phone Numbers: 312-663-0305 Fax: 312-663-0644 Website Address: www.sga-youth.org Project Director Name: Lisa Sargent-Davis Email Address: lsargent-davis@sga-youth.org Grant Program Funds Requested: $5,500,000 SGA Youth & Family Services (SGA) is requesting federal grant funding as a continuing applicant under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health program to implement Midwest Health Start (MWHS). SGA has served as a Healthy Start grantee for Chicago, Illinois since 2013 and intends to be the lead agency and primary coordinator of care, working in close partnership with Advocate Trinity Health System to ensure a seamless transition of home-based care for marginalized minority populations in Chicago’s south side. In so doing, SGA continues to leverage a network of comprehensive services that address the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of all clients in order to reduce the infant mortality rate in the target areas. MWHS will prioritize services for African American women residing in an urban project area consisting of six City of Chicago community areas (New City, Chatham, Washington Heights, Roseland, South Chicago, and Woodlawn) and their associated full census tracts in portions of eight zip codes (60609, 60617, 60619, 60620, 60628, 60637, 60643 and 60649). The infant mortality rate (IMR) for the target population in the project area between 2019 and 2021 is 13 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, which is considerably higher than the national rate of 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2021. Overall community and demographic data demonstrate that expectant mothers and their babies in our project area ha ve higher maternal and infant health risk than other residents in the City of Chicago while also lacking the services and supports that could minimize these risks. SGA’s MWHS will address these inequities in outcomes and access to care so that Black and Brown women and their babies can thrive. The primary purpose of MWHS will be to provide a continuum of education and wraparound support services to vulnerable populations to improve perinatal health outcomes such as low birthweight, preterm births, maternal morbidity and mortality. SGA will serve 700 eligible participants through education, intensive case management and access to comprehensive care coordination services, including referrals within SGA’s own Cycle of Opportunity, which includes programs for mothers, partners, school-aged older siblings, and grandparents, wrapping the entire family in additional levels of support. A Community Consortium comprised of service providers and residents with lived experience will spearhead community-level efforts to improve care coordination and decrease health disparities while also triggering positive behavioral change within the target area.
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