Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Content of
Projects
1) Projects shall be directed toward
the provision and coordination of services which assist women with problem
pregnancies or women at risk of initial or repeat problem pregnancies in
accordance with accepted maternal and child health principles. Such services
include:
A) Prenatal and Post-Partum Health
Care
B) Nutrition
Services
C) Social services,
including counseling, financial assistance, legal aid, day care, homemaker
services and housing
D) Employment
Counseling and Vocational Services
E) Education concerning Sexuality and
Parenting, both individually and community-wide
F) Mental Health Services
G) Special Services to enable pregnant
adolescents to remain in school or to continue their education
H) Residential Care for pregnant
adolescents
I) Outreach and
Follow-up to assure that those in need of these services are receiving
appropriate assistance.
2) Projects may also provide:
A) Technical assistance to enable other
communities to develop problem pregnancy prevention programs and problem
pregnancy-related services and
B)
Training (but not including institutional training or training assistance
provided by consultants) to providers of services, including skills and
multidisciplinary approaches to problem pregnancy-related services and in the
provision of such services.
b) Priority Areas
In approving applications for grants for problem pregnancy
health services and care projects, priority will be given to applicants
who:
1) Serve an area where there is a
high incidence of adolescent and problem pregnancy;
2) Show evidence of having the ability to
bring together a wide range of needed services in comprehensive single site
projects or to establish a well integrated network of services in a community
including outreach to, and services for, problem pregnancies;
3) Will use as a base, existing programs and
facilities such as neighborhood and primary health care centers, children and
youth centers, maternity and infant care centers, designated Regional Perinatal
Care facilities, School Education Programs, Mental Health Programs, Nutrition
Programs, Recreation Programs, and other ongoing problem pregnancy-related
services;
4) Make use, to the
maximum extent feasible, or other federal, state and local funds, programs,
contributions, and other third party reimbursements;
5) Can demonstrate a community commitment to
the program by making available to the project nonfederal funds, personnel, and
facilities; and
6) Have involved
the community to be served, including public and private agencies, in the
planning and implementation of the project.
c) Population to be Served
1) Those eligible to receive services through
these project funds include women who are pregnant, women who have delivered in
the past year, and/or women who are at risk of becoming pregnant, and for whom
the pregnancy or parenthood represents or would represent a social, emotional,
financial or health problem. Priority shall be given to adolescents 17 years
old and younger. Adolescent fathers, families of pregnant adolescents, and
families of adolescent parents, are eligible to receive counseling services
through these projects.
2) No
income eligibility requirements shall be made but grantees shall ensure that
priority is given to those persons who are not able to obtain assistance
through other means.
d)
Funding
Projects will be funded for up to one year on the basis of the
State fiscal year (July 1 - June 30). Reapplications for continued funding will
receive priority consideration in succeeding years based on appropriation of
funds by the General Assembly and performance showing progress toward stated
goals.
e) Matching
Requirements
A grant may cover not to exceed 70% of the cost of the project
in the first and second years. For purposes of these matching requirements, a
funding period of 6 months or more shall constitute the first year of a
project. Projects initially funded for less than 6 months shall provide a
minimum of 30% of total project costs in the initial funding period, as well as
in the full first and second years of the project. In the third and each
succeeding year, the amount of the state grant shall decrease by at least 10%
of the amount of the state grant under this act in the preceding
year.