HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced awards totaling almost $9.2 million in grants and a cooperative agreement to improve health care services for children and to support maternal and child health (MCH) research.
 
“Improving health care for children now will make America stronger in the future,” Secretary Leavitt said.  “Funds from these grant programs expand access to important services that will help our young people grow into healthy adults.”
 
Fifty-three State MCH Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Program grants totaling $6,585,000 will help state health departments promote integrated, community-based systems of care that ease children’s access to social and mental health services. 
 
Grants to eight academic and institutions from HRSA’s Extramural MCH Research Program totaling $1,606,867 will examine several issues, including: access to care among children of immigrants; dental care for low-income women in Oregon ; prenatal case management by registered nurses for high-risk, low-income pregnant women; and ways to measure the quality of care in hospital neonatal units.
 
State Agency Partnerships for Promoting Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program grants totaling $319,059 were awarded to four state health departments to help develop partnerships with other state health care, health care financing, justice, and education agencies to coordinate mental health services for school-aged children and teens.
 
Additionally, a Partnership for State Leadership in Oral Health grant totaling $400,000 went to the Association for State and Territorial Health Officials in Jefferson City , Mo. , to support partnerships among state oral health programs, and Medicaid and private sector providers to increase access to oral health services for mothers and children.
 
And the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, based in Washington , D.C. , signed a cooperative agreement worth $250,000 to coordinate research in practices health care providers use in pregnancy care to reduce low birth weight and preterm birth.
 
Tables of grant recipients follow:
 

State MCH Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Program, FY 2005 Grants
Organization	City	State	Amount
Alabama Department of Public Health	Montgomery	Ala.	$140,000
Alaska Department of Health & Social Services	Juneau	Alaska	120,000
Arizona Department of Health Services	Phoenix	Ariz.	140,000
Arkansas Department of Health	Little Rock	Ark.	100,000
California Dept. of Health Services	Sacramento	Calif.	126,000
Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment	Denver	Colo.	140,000
State of Connecticut	Hartford	Conn.	129,000
Delaware Department of Health & Social Services	Dover	Del.	100,000
District of Columbia Dept. of Health	Washington	D.C.	100,000
Florida Department of Health	Tallahassee	Fla.	100,000
Georgia Dept. of Human Resources	Atlanta	Ga.	140,000
Guam Department of Public Health & Social Services	Agana	Guam	100,000
Hawaii Department of Health	Honolulu	Hawaii	140,000
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare	Boise	Idaho	140,000
Illinois Department of Human Services	Springfield	Ill.	140,000
Indiana Department of Health	Indianapolis	Ind.	140,000
Iowa Department of Public Health	Des Moines	Iowa	140,000
Kansas Department of Health and Environment	Topeka	Kan.	140,000
Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services	Frankfort	Ky.	140,000
Louisiana Dept. of Health & Hospitals	New Orleans	La.	120,000
Maine Department of Human Services	Augusta	Maine	120,000
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene	Baltimore	Md.	140,000
Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health	Boston	Mass.	140,000
Michigan Dept. of Community Health	Lansing	Mich.	140,000
Minnesota Department of Health	Saint Paul	Minn.	140,000
Missouri Department of Health	Jefferson City	Mo.	126,000
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services	Helena	Mont.	100,000
State of Nebraska	Lincoln	Neb.	123,000
Nevada Dept. of Human Resources	Carson City	Nev.	126,000
State of New Hampshire	Concord	N.H.	100,000
New Jersey Department of Health	Trenton	N.J.	140,000
New Mexico Department of Health	Santa Fe	N.M.	140,000
Health Research, Inc./New York Department of Health	Rensselaer	N.Y.	140,000
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services	Raleigh	N.C.	140,000
North Dakota Department of Health	Bismarck	N.D.	126,000
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	Saipan	N.M.I.	100,000
Ohio Department of Health	Columbus	Ohio	140,000
Oklahoma Department of Health	Oklahoma City	Okla.	137,000
Oregon Department of Human Services	Portland	Ore.	126,000
Rep. of Palau Bureau of Health Services	Koror	Palau	140,000
Pennsylvania Department of Health	Harrisburg	Pa.	100,000
Puerto Rico Department of Health	San Juan	P.R.	100,000
Rhode Island Department of Health	Providence	R.I.	140,000
State of South Carolina	Columbia	S.C.	100,000
Tennessee Department of Health	Nashville	Tenn.	100,000
Texas Health & Human Services Comm.	Austin	Texas	100,000
Utah Department of Health	Salt Lake City	Utah	120,000
Vermont Department of Health	Waterbury	Vt.	126,000
Virginia Department of Health	Richmond	Va.	126,000
Washington Department of Health	Olympia	Wash.	140,000
West Virginia Office of the Governor	Charleston	W.Va.	100,000
Wisconsin Department of Health & Social Services	Madison	Wis.	100,000
Wyoming Department of Health	Cheyenne	Wyo.	114,000
TOTAL:			$6,585,000

 

Extramural MCH Research Program, FY 2005 Grants
Organization	City	State	Amount
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Ala.	$200,483
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center	Denver	Colo.	251,927
Board of Trustees, University of Illinois	Chicago	Ill.	254,977
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	Md.	107,449
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	N.C.	226,652
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	N.C.	67,593
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pa.	252,496
University of Washington	Seattle	Wash.	245,290
TOTAL:			$1,606,867

 

State Agency Partnerships for Promoting Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program, FY 2005 Grants
Organization	City	State	Amount
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment	Denver	Colo.	$80,000
Minnesota Department of Health	St. Paul	Minn.	80,000
Oregon Department of Human Services	Portland	Ore.	79,957
Washington Department of Health	Tumwater	Wash.	79,102
TOTAL:			$319,059