Friday, April 19, 2024
4/19/2024
Preferred Family Healthcare proposes to implement the Southwest Missouri Pregnant and Postpartum Women’s Services Project (Preserving Families Through Partnerships) – (PPWS-PFTP) to expand our current Pregnant and Postpartum Women’s Services grant, which is currently serving four counties (Barry, Lawrence, Stone, and Taney), to six additional, adjacent counties (Greene, Christian, Webster, Polk, Dallas, and Hickory). This expanded project will serve pregnant and postpartum women, aged 18+ with substance use disorder (SUD) and/or co-occurring disorders (COD) and their minor children, partners, and other extended family members, residing in this ten (10) county region. The target population is mostly rural, low-income individuals. We will provide comprehensive substance use treatment and recovery throughout the prenatal and postpartum periods to address the individual strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences of each family served. Through a comprehensive set of interventions, we will identify and address each mother and family’s needs and goals with trauma-informed, evidence-based, gender-focused, family centered residential prevention, treatment, and recovery services. Over the life of the grant, we intend to serve a total of 176 unduplicated clients. To ensure the high level of success we had in the original four county area is maintained in this expanded ten (10) county area, we will meet these goals and objectives: 1) decreasing the use and/or misuse of substances and lowering the rate of babies born to women actively using by increasing access to SUD treatment, client participation in comprehensive SUD treatment programs (including Medication-Assisted Treatment-MAT), and making connections to community based recovery supports; 2) increasing safe and healthy pregnancies, improving birth outcomes, and reducing related effects of maternal substance use on infants and children by ensuring clients attend prenatal medical appointments and are substance free at the time of delivery; 3) improving the mental and physical health of women and children by reducing trauma-induced feelings and behaviors, increasing coping skills, completing all postpartum checkups, following doctor recommended family planning, and ensuring children attend well-child appointments; 4) improving family functioning, economic stability, and quality of life by improving parenting behaviors, connecting families to community-based social services, improving children’s coping skills and education, maintaining employment for participants, and ensuring clients are in stable, safe housing; 5) improve community, client, and family safety through a decrease in criminal justice, domestic violence, and child welfare involvement. These goals and objectives will be reached through the implementation of the Preserving Families Through Partnership (PFTP) and Parent-Child Assistance Program (P-CAP). The strategies and interventions used under these models within our program are 1) Motivational Interviewing (MI), 2) Nurturing Program for Families in Substance Use Treatment and Recovery (NP), 3) Living in Balance (LIB), 4) Helping Men/Women Recover, 5) Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), 6) Individual Placement and Supports (ISP) Employment Services, 7) Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), 8) Trauma-Informed Therapy, and 9) Wraparound Services. To carry out this important work, we are requesting $2,624,836.12 to be spent over a five (5) year span to implement this proposed project.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
