Agency: SIDS Mid-Atlantic
Grant Title: Five A’s Smoking Cessation Training
Grant Amount: $8,500
SIDS Mid-Atlantic will provide Five A's smoking cessation training—along with prematurity, folic acid and SIDS education—to health care providers in Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.  Training by health care providers will ensure that pregnant smokers are educated about the dangers of smoking while pregnant. The program has the potential to increase smoking cessation rate by 30 percent to 70 percent.

Agency: MELD/Even Start Inc.
Grant Title: Teen MOMS Together: Preventing Prematurity Through Childbirth and Parenting Education, Group Support and Skill Building
Grant Amount: $12,000
Teen MOMS Together will provide parenting support groups for teenage mothers in Washington, D.C., and provide education to participants about healthy pregnancies, childbirth, signs of preterm labor, breastfeeding, nutrition and healthy food choices.

Agency: Potomac Hospital
Grant Title: Prince William Area Partnership for Expansion of Prenatal Care
Grant Amount: $24,000
The Prince William Area Partnership for Expansion of Prenatal Care will increase access to care for low-income and uninsured women who enter prenatal care by the second trimester.

Agency: INMED Partnerships for Children
Grant Title: MotherNet Loudoun
Grant Amount: $13,737
MotherNet Loudoun will launch a new Spanish-language perinatal health education program that will reach 85 Spanish-speaking individuals. 

Agency: Providence Hospital
Grant Title: Centering Pregnancy Program
Grant Amount: $10,000
Providence Hospital will improve its Centering Pregnancy Program, which provides prenatal care that incorporates medical assessment, health education and emotional and social support.

Agency: Preemies Today
Grant Title: Straight from the Source: Enhancing Parent Support
Grant Amount $12,000
Preemies Today provides support to families of infants born prematurely in the NICU.  The grant will allow Preemies Today to increase the circulation of its newsletter, improve its Web site and distribute Preemies Today Care Kits.

Agency: Arlington Public Schools
Grant Title: Arlington Resource Mothers Program
Grant Amount: $12,000
The grant will provide partial funding for an outreach worker/educator for the resource mother's program.

Agency: Restoration Community Development Corporation
Grant Title: It’s Your Life – Take Charge of It!
Grant Amount: $15,000
It’s Your Life – Take Charge of It! will educate at least 125 African American women of childbearing age on the importance of healthy lifestyle choices and preconception health.  The program is offered in partnership with the Anne Arundel County Health Department.

Agency: Baltimore Medical System (BMS) and St. Agnes Hospital
Grant Title: Stork’s Nest
Grant Amount: $25,000
The Stork's Nest program will encourage women and their partners to attend prenatal appointments and educational sessions on parenting, nutrition and health.  The program targets 250 African American and Hispanic women who receive treatment from BMS.

Agency: Johns Hopkins University
Grant Title: Healthy Teens, Healthy Babies
Grant Amount: $15,000
Healthy Teens, Healthy Babies will provide one-on-one health education and support.  The program will address risk-reduction behavior and factors that contribute to poor pregnancy outcomes.  The target population: pregnant African American teenagers in East Baltimore.

Agency: Garrett County Health Department
Grant Title: Garrett County Nurse-Family Partnership
Grant Amount: $5,770
Two nurses will make weekly, bi-monthly or monthly visits to mothers from the sixteenth week of pregnancy until the child is three years old.  The Garrett County Nurse-Family Partnership targets low-income and first-time mothers and their babies.

Agency: Holy Cross Hospital
Grant Title: Prenatal Class for Teens
Grant Amount: $10,648
The Prenatal Class for Teenagers will addresses the physiologic aspects and social implications of teenage pregnancy.  The target population: African American and Hispanic women.

Agency: Queen Anne's County Health Department
Grant Title: Mom Movers
Grant amount: $25,000
Mom Movers will provide transportation for pregnant women and mothers to attend doctor visits and other appointments.  The passengers will receive pregnancy-related and newborn care information from a "mentor driver."

Agency: St. Mary's County Health Department
Grant Title: One Multivitamin = One Healthy Baby
Grant Amount: $10,000
The One Multivitamin = One Healthy Baby program will distribute March of Dimes materials and multivitamins to women who visit health department clinics.  The target population: women of childbearing age.   The goals include increasing folic acid education and preventing birth defects.

Agency: Preemies Today (Suburban Maryland)
Grant Title: Straight from the Source: Enhancing Parent Support
Grant Amount: $14,166
The grant will support the distribution of monthly (English language) and quarterly (Spanish language) newsletters to families of premature infants.  The grant also will support Preemies Today’s efforts to expand into Maryland.

Agency: SIDS Mid-Atlantic (Suburban Maryland)
Grant Title: Cribs for Kids
Grant Amount: $6,000
SIDS Mid-Atlantic will distribute portable cribs to needy families through health and social service agencies in Montgomery and Prince George's counties.  The program seeks to prevent infant death from SIDS or accidental suffocation due to unsafe sleeping practices in African American and Hispanic families.

Agency: Franklin Square Hospital
Grant Title: NICU Family Support
Grant Amount: $6,000
The grant will provide partial salary for the NICU Family Support program specialist.

COMMUNITY AWARDS
Agency: Postpartum Support International-Virginia
Award Amount: $883
The award will allow the agency to increase education efforts by launching a Web site, print informational brochures, purchase materials for mothers in distress and conduct an annual meeting/training session for volunteers.

Agency: Carroll County Health Department
Award Title: Maryland’s Largest Baby Shower
Award Amount: $2,500
The award will support Maryland's Largest Baby Shower, a collaborative effort between the Carroll County Health Department; Carroll Hospital Center; Maryland Cooperative Extension; Maryland State Department of Education, Office of Child Care; and the Family Center of Human Services Programs of Carroll County, Inc.  Activities will include guest speakers, educational displays, packets, giveaways and door prizes.  The target population: pregnant women and their partners.

Agency: Mission of Mercy
Award Title: Prenatal Program in Frederick County
Award Amount: $3,000
Prenatal program will provide pregnant women with free visits with a physician and/or midwife, a supply of multivitamins, folic acid, prescription medications, laboratory and diagnostic imaging, prenatal blood work and full medical records to present to the emergency room at the onset of labor.

Agency: Talbot County Family Support Center
Award Title: Prenatal Education, Nutrition and Fitness Program
Award Amount: $2,916
The award will support 12-week prenatal education classes taught by a bilingual interpreter using Comenzando bien™ and Pregnancy Workshop curriculums.  The target population: Hispanic women who are not receiving adequate prenatal care and are at-risk of delivering unhealthy babies.

For more information about the 2008 chapter grants and community awards, please call Dona Dei at (703) 824-0111, ext. 14, or Anne Eder at (410) 752-8073.