1. Providing or enhancing preconception health education and/or services. 

2. Providing or enhancing risk reduction education and/or services.  Risk reduction projects include, but are not limited to:
• Providing smoking cessation education and/or services.  Preference should be given to prenatal health education and information/referral services that utilize the "5 A's" counseling approach.  For more information, go to www.acog.org/from_home/departments/smoking/smokingslides.ppt
• Increasing health education and information/referral services available to pregnant women who use alcohol or other drugs.
• Focusing on preterm birth recurrence prevention.
• Enhancing care through the CenteringPregnancy® model of group prenatal care.  For more information, go to www.centeringhealthcare.org
• Focusing on quality improvement programs that address late preterm birth through systems that ensure compliance with ACOG guidelines regarding elective labor inductions and c-sections performed prior to 39 weeks.

3. Implement disparity-related community programs that aim to decrease racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes. 

4. Increasing pregnant women’s participation in state or local maternal child health programs (e.g. Medicaid, SCHIP, WIC) through enhanced outreach, education and public awareness.

5. Enhancing the availability, quality and utilization of genetics services and/or other patient services related to preventable birth defects (i.e. outreach and education on newborn screening.)