Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is responding to PA-TP1-20-001. Ohio has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the nation and ranks 23rd out of the 50 states for teenage pregnancies. Franklin County, located in central Ohio, is home to the 14th largest city in the US and is also one of the most economically segregated regions in the country. This proposal is a response to the increasing needs of Franklin County adolescents illustrated by elevated teen birth rates in high need communities, a growing racial disparity among teen birth rates, a county-wide epidemic of sexually transmitted infections among teens, and students’ inadequate exposure to evidence-based health curriculum given the absence of health education standards in the state of Ohio. Nationwide Children's Hospital aspires to eliminate inequities in child health and shares a commitment with many community organizations to improve health for children – in all its forms. Two effective interventions (a) implementing Get Real, an evidence-based pregnancy prevention curriculum in twelve Columbus City middle schools, and (b) expanding access to school-based health care, including reproductive health care, will be implemented and scaled on the basis of demonstrated community need to address critical healthcare gaps in the population. These interventions will be surrounded by strong supportive programs that will enhance the impact of the interventions including peer, parent, and summer programming. Together with strong partners including The Ohio State University as experts in evaluation, the largest school district in the state of Ohio as the education partner, and CelebrateOne as a community collaborative responsible for collective impact and providing the accountability structure relative to the goal of reducing the infant mortality rate, Nationwide Children’s Hospital is uniquely qualified to lead this project which will result in measurable change in adolescent health equity and access in Franklin County. Over the three-year project duration, the total number of adolescents impacted will exceed 6,000 7th and 8th grade students, as interventions will be brought to scale and the outcome of this work will achieve optimal teen health by building on existing community collaborative structures which will ensure sustainable system change.
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