Statewide       
The Community Perinatal Network                   $75,000
The California Perinatal Summit project is intended to improve the access to risk-appropriate care for women at risk of premature delivery or with prenatally diagnosed birth defects.  This series of summits will lay the ground work for the expansion of perinatal levels of care and perinatal regionalization that began more than 20 years ago with "Towards Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy", moving the focus beyond neonatal care to maternal-fetal care.

Butte
Butte County Public Health Department       $25,000
The Moms and Babies: Smoke-free and Healthy project will increase access to smoking cessation classes for pregnant women via use of the 5As counseling method by providers. It will also provide R.N. follow-up and support by phone, after-care/class completion support groups, and will conduct outreach about the dangers of second-hand smoke exposure to men in the greater Oroville area of Butte County.

Fresno
Community Medical Center, Diabetes Care Center – Sierra    $25,000
To hire a part-time Registered Dietician/Certified Diabetes Educator (Spanish speaking) to provide nutrition counseling, diabetes mellitus education and support services for high-risk pregnant women with diabetes mellitus who are planning a pregnancy. This service is currently not covered by Medi-Cal, which 80% of the center's patient population have as their sole insurance.
 
Fresno County Department of Community Health     $25,000 
The project will pilot a Dental Care for Baby’s Health Before, During and After Pregnancy educational workshops directly to low-income pregnant women and families with young children.  In addition, the project will incorporate a pregnancy-specific component to enhance the Oral Health Tool Kit – Educational Tools for Family Service Providers that will be made available to perinatal and family service providers that already target this population and will educate providers about the importance of good oral health during pregnancy.

Radio Bilingüe          $25,000
The Madres Informadas=Bebes Saludables project will produce and air a radio campaign targeting pregnant women that will: promote health insurance programs and support services, address smoking cessation and preterm labor signs & symptoms, address education for urinary and reproductive tract infections, and increase prenatal health information about drug and alcohol abuse.

*This project also serves Merced, Madera, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Monterey and Imperial counties

Los Angeles
El Nido Family Centers         $25,000
In the Prenatal Nursing Program, an RN who is experienced working with pregnant teens at risk for premature delivery or other complications will collaborate with El Nido Case Managers to identify and intervene in high-risk cases.  She will provide education, clinical assessment, counseling and resource linkages so that teens will receive appropriate medical care, better understand and comply with prescribed regimens and deliver healthy, full-term babies who are at reduced risk for infant mortality.

PHFE Management Solutions        $25,000
To provide education, outreach and referrals to pregnant women and women of childbearing age through six established and two new health ministries located in the Antelope Valley.  The program will utilize the existing efforts of the Black Infant Health Program and the Healthy Births Initiative.

NCAAD/South Bay         $25,000
Utilizing the 5 As counseling approach, smoking cessation and tobacco education services will be provided to pregnant women participating in an alcohol/other drug dependence recovery program. Additionally, staff at several recovery facilities will be trained to conduct on-going cessation services using the 5 As approach.

The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents      $25,000
The MIRACLE Project provides home-based, prenatal health and child development services for pregnant, jailed women and their infants.

Marin
Marin County Health & Human Services – Women’s Health Services   $25,000
In order to improve prenatal care utilization, offer enhanced educational content and improve birth outcomes, Marin County Women's Health Services will introduce a new model of group prenatal care, Centering Pregnancy, to six groups with 8-10 women each.

Nevada
Nevada County Community Health Department      $20,000
This project will impact women via the voices of children telling them what it was like for them when their mothers abused drugs, and how much better life is now that mom is sober.  A video will be produced and disseminated to medical groups, local agencies, county departments and schools.

Orange
Mary’s Shelter          $25,000
Funding will support prenatal education and services to pregnant minors in a residential program for homeless teens and through a new outreach program.  Includes education about prenatal care and child development, infant and early childhood parenting skills and childbirth preparation; medical referrals and consults; crisis counseling for pregnant teens and their families; and referrals for support services including transitional housing, low-income child care and licensed adoption agencies.

MOMS (Maternal Outreach Management System)      $10,000
The Prematurity Prevention Program will conduct preterm labor education and community based case management to very low income pregnant women at risk for preterm labor.

Nhan Hoa Comprehensive Health Care Clinic      $15,000 
To provide prenatal health education and support services that focus on reducing disparities in birth outcomes, especially prematurity, for low-income Vietnamese pregnant women and their families residing in Orange County.

Riverside
Riverside County Department of Public Health, MCAH Branch    $8,000
The Perinatal Substance Abuse SART Program works with physicians who provide prenatal care and encourages them to integrate substance abuse screening, assessment and referral into routine prenatal care. The Perinatal Substance SART Program also focuses on the education of the professional community and the community at-large regarding the impact of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use during pregnancy and the benefits of early intervention, using Dr. Ira Chasnoff's model. 

San Benito
San Benito Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition     $25,000
This project will provide education and a liaison for women's health and perinatal services to the Oaxacan population in San Benito County. Project will also focus on leadership preparation for Oaxacan members to ensure group sustainability and will respond to requests to start similar groups from other Oaxacans who may speak different languages.

San Bernardino
Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Foundation     $20,850
To improve the content and the manner in which the prenatal consultation is provided by neonatologist to women facing a preterm delivery.  The project will develop an interactive touch-screen audiovisual program that graphically depicts specifics to an infant's gestational age (weight, likely complications, how infant might look at that gestational age) which allows parents to decide the amount and timing of the information.  A nurse or social worker will follow up with parents who have viewed the program to provide further information and support. 

San Diego
Family Health Centers         $25,000
Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) will provide education and support services for high-risk pregnant women, with a focus on those under age 20. The project goal is to reduce disparities in birth outcomes, especially prematurity, by facilitating early entry into healthcare services and access to Comenzando bien or other prenatal health education.

North County Health Services        $17,472
To provide a unique education program based on the “Centering Pregnancy" model for primarily low-income Latina women who are pregnant and have gestational diabetes. Model includes health assessment, education and support within a group setting under the facilitative leadership of a nurse-midwife and social worker. The goal of the program is to reduce disparities in birth outcomes including preterm labor through enhancing health education and support that will result in improved glucose control in pregnancy.

Children’s Hospital and Health Center: Partnership for Smoke-Free Families  $27,500
The goal of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Prematurity Prevention Project Phase III is to increase access to quality health care and preventive services among pregnant women in order to decrease the preterm birth rate by decreasing smoking rates and exposure to secondhand smoke.

*This project also serves Imperial County

San Francisco 
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation      $25,000 
The Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center (BAPAC) will expand its comprehensive preconception counseling services into the greater San Francisco community to individuals and couples and will conduct educational sessions with HIV-infected women. BAPAC will also provide enhanced genetic screening to high-risk HIV-infected women receiving prenatal care through the program and will maximize the uptake of HIV testing among women receiving prenatal care at San Francisco General Hospital.

San Joaquin/Stanislaus
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte        $21,000
This project will promote access to and participation in local and state maternal and child health programs by reaching out to women of childbearing age in the migrant labor camps. It will also increase individual and community awareness and availability of prevention services such as screening for urinary and reproductive tract infections in women.

Santa Cruz
County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency      $25,000
Project will collaborate with the Perinatal Council on Substance Abuse and Families to 1) establish a warmline system that readily connects health care providers and/or at-risk women/patients to a Perinatal Substance Use Specialist who will provide education, conduct substance use risk assessments and make appropriate referrals to local treatment and support services;  2) conduct trainings and offer educational materials and support for prenatal care providers to conduct early and periodic universal risk screening, education, intervention and referral of pregnant women identified as at-risk for perinatal alcohol and other drug use; and 3) maintain a data collection system of local perinatal drug use trends, including, a) positive toxicology screens of newborns and mothers from hospitals, b) demographic and drug use profile data of women entering treatment, and c) children birth-3 years in foster care due to perinatal drug use.

Sonoma
Northern California Center for Well-Being      $20,000
Funding will support the continuation of the Smoke Free Babies project, with a re-designed program model which will more effectively reach and serve pregnant smokers by bringing services directly to them.  This project will facilitate changes in Sonoma County's perinatal services system through integrated outreach, screening and training that will increase the capacity for effective tobacco cessation interventions within the service delivery agencies.
 
Yolo
CommuniCare Health Centers        $22,405
This project will provide folic acid education and a starter supply of multi-vitamins with folic acid to all women accessing reproductive health services and pregnancy testing at all CommuniCare Health Centers primary care clinics. 

Total: $607,227