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Recorded presentation

Sunday Gustin, RN, MPH, Children's Futures Initiative, City of Trenton - Division of Health, 16 East Hanover Street, Trenton, NJ 08608, 609-989-3307, sundaygustin@comcast.net

The Children's Futures Initiative (CF) is an interagency, public-private partnership that provides a comprehensive system of MCH services in Trenton, New Jersey. This model builds on existing services and integrates new components to strengthen the system of care and improve health outcomes for pregnant women, parents and children from birth to age three. Specific strategies and services integrated into the CF model include: 1) Prenatal screening questionnaire (includes the 4 P's Plus) conducted by OB clinical providers for risk identification, prevention education and referral to treatment/support services. 2) Central intake to streamline referral and assessment, avoid duplication, and ensure coordination/communication. 3) In-home assessment to determine woman/family needs and offer participation in CF programs and services. 4) Intensive home visitation (Nurse Family Partnership, Healthy Families, TANF Initiative for Parents) to provide long-term health education and family support for eligible families; 5) PHN home visits for women/families at any time along the continuum--pregnancy, postpartum, infancy or early childhood to give families another option. 6) Center-based activities at local Parent/Child Centers for group activities in prenatal/parenting education, breastfeeding support, infant/child growth and development, prenatal exercise, stress reduction, infant massage, early literacy and family-oriented social time. 7) Consultant services for perinatal addiction, depression, domestic violence, fatherhood support and childcare referral. 8) Perinatal outreach to promote early entry into prenatal care and community awareness about free pregnancy testing and other CF services. CF tracks data across programs to monitor success in reaching program objectives and improving health outcomes.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session the participant will be able to

• List core strategies to create a comprehensive system of prevention, early identification and community services for pregnant women, parents, infants and children.
• Analyze the benefit of prenatal screening, prevention education and central intake as a linkage to assessment, home visitation and community-based services in improving prenatal and child health outcomes.
• Discuss the challenges and opportunities presented through a multidisciplinary public-private partnership.
• Discuss key factors in developing a data set across providers and services to measure overall program impact and effectiveness of home visitation and other core services on health outcomes.

Keywords: Maternal and Child Health, Public/Private Partnerships

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation