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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: JANUARY 21, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: MATERNAL AND INFANT OUTREACH PROJECT <br />DEPARTMENT: HEALTH <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Notice of Award <br />1 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. VIC i4 <br />PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 <br />2) Application for Maternal and TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br />Infant Outreach Project Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To accept a grant through the State from the irate B. Reynolds <br />Trust to establish two (2) Maternal Outreach Worker positions as <br />an adjunct to the Baby Love, Maternity Care coordination Program. <br />BACKGROUND: The Health Department's community Diagnosis has recognized the <br />inadequacy of prenatal care as a high priority problem for several <br />years. Outreach workers have been seen as a potential resource to <br />assure that more pregnant women will take advantage of the <br />prenatal services available both at the Health Department and at <br />the orange Chatham comprehensive Health services (occHS). In <br />fact, in the 1991 -92 budget request, the Health Department sought <br />a half -time position to assist in outreach in the maternal health <br />program. Funds were not available to establish this position. <br />Subsequently, the Division of Maternal and Child Health has <br />received a grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Trust to <br />provide local health departments and /or primary health care <br />programs, such as OCCHS, with funds to establish Maternal outreach <br />Worker (MOW) positions. The guidelines structured the application <br />process very finely. Full -time equivalent positions and the <br />dollar amounts to be requested were constrained by the number of <br />Medicaid births in the respective county during fiscal year 1990- <br />91. Based upon this, Orange county is eligible to apply for two <br />positions. <br />The role of the MOW is essentially two -fold: <br />1) Community outreach and education activities to include case <br />finding and referral of eligible women and infants to needed <br />services (25 %); and <br />2) Intensive maternal and infant support services for an <br />identified caseload (75 %). <br />