Brooklyn Perinatal Network

The nysdoh first 1000 days on medicaid maternal infant care initiative (mici) pilot project bpn participates in a 3-year statewide pilot, in a downstate project. The goal of which is to help collect information to demonstrate the value of including community health worker in community-clinical partners to improve service navigation for Perinatal women and infant 0-3 yrs. The findings are intended to enable the doh to develop the community health worker benefit program for medicaid reimbursements. Chw's usually carry a caseload of 25 clients each, which is the program norm.

The nyc city council mchsi funded healthy women health futures (hwhf) program, a dohmh-bpn partnership: this provides access to referrals for maternal and child medical and social service's needs, includingdoulas for birthing and post-partum support. Supports training of community membe developing and hiring themas doula consultants to serve pregnant/postpartum women free of charge, to who need them. On average 50 doulas are trained annually citywide and 180-200 Brooklyn women receive their services.

The nys health insurance exchange marketplace, the in-person assistor, facilitated enrollment (ipa) program: we have been providing this access since 1999 with the first program iteration of the child and family health insurance program. Child health plus. On average 10,000 applicants enrolled in insurance annually with about 60% being children.

Bpn receives little direct funding for our efforts to promote this important collective approach. The nyc council funding under its maternal child health services initiative(mchsi) which has extended the infant mortality reduction initiative(imri)which work started in 2001, with bpn's advocacy leadership, is the only consistent financial support for this collaborative work with a group of select community based organizations (cbos) in our under-resourced communities. Bpn and other small cbos which have earned the high trust of our community residents are the real first realm of frontline providers and when crises arise - such as covid we are the ones they seek out to get help that can allow them to focus on health. The attached chart identifies our consistently funded programs that comprising bpn's major services categories facilitating access for clients. These are: -the nys health insurance exchange marketplace, the in-person assistor, facilitated enrollment (ipa) program: we have been providing this access since 1999 with the first program iteration of the child and family health insurance program. Child health plus. On average 10,000 applicants enrolled in insurance annually with about 60% being children. -the nyc city council mchsi funded healthy women health futures (hwhf) program, a dohmh-bpn partnership: this provides access to referrals for maternal and child medical and social service's needs, includingdoulas for birthing and post-partum support. Supports training of community member developing and hiring themas doula consultants to serve pregnant/postpartum women free of charge, to who need them. On average 50 doulas are trained annually citywide and 180-200 Brooklyn women receive their services. -maternal and baby supplies: donated goods are provided to clients who need them - cribs, strollers, car seats, pampers; breasts pumps, clothing and a host of other items donated to bpn and to our cbo partners. Approximately, 600 individuals receive such goods per year. -the dohmh maternal infant health (mih) outcome initiative (phs managed the initiative): bpn partners with middle and high schools and community members develop peer to peer health informants/health advocates to provide health information being active in their school and community environments. About 225 school health education and community information sessions are conducted -the nyc city council mchsi infant mortality reduction initiative (imri): this provides funded collective work, collaboration for service coordination with select cbos and with health service providers. Bpn's collective work strategy is aimed as helping to strengthen the fabric the safety net social health ofservices in our communities to better address the health challenges that no one entity alone can be successful in tackling. Almost all bpn's services engage collaboration, that we initiate and sometimes lead, working with other service providers. The leadership team of the Brooklyn coalition for health equity for women and families, comprising cbos and convened by bpn for over 2 decades, sponsors the collective imri initiatives. The coalition's work has significantly increased awareness about the community's determinants of health among our public health policymakers and service institutional decision makers. This collaborative work reaches and thousands of childbearing individuals and those parentin infants and young children, as well as engages adolescents in life planning promoting prevention of unwanted pregnancies. Bpn collective work also engages community members, some of them the most affected, empowering them to help address the social healthchallenges and to support solutions that can improve community maternal and child health outcomes. Currently the coalition focus is on promoting awareness of the magnitude of the crisis with the disparities in black maternal health outcomes, particularly in Brooklyn. -the nysdoh first 1000 days on medicaid maternal infant care initiative (mici) pilot project: bpn participates in a 3-year statewide pilot, in a downstate project. The goal of which is to help collect information to demonstrate the value of including community health worker in community-clinical partners to improve service navigation for Perinatal women and infant 0-3 yrs. The findings are intended to enable the doh to develop the community health worker benefit program for medicaid reimbursements. Chw's usually carry a caseload of 25 clients each, which is the program norm. -ccm dohmh family and youth peer support program (fyps) overview bpn participates as a subcontractor partner with the community counseling and mediation (ccm) fyps alliance program. The family and youth peer support (fyps) services support and empower parents/caregivers of children and youth (birth - age 24) who are experiencing social, emotional, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges, and the children and youth themselves. This program is part of a Network of fyps programs throughout new york city. The Network consists of five non-profit organizations (one in each borough) that establishes and coordinates an alliance that consists of the prime contractor and subcontracting organizations within their service area which, all together, will provide a comprehensive range of formal and informal community-based family and youth support services. -under the fyps alliance model, the following fyps core services will be provided by family peer advocates and youth peer advocates: -engagement, bridging and transition support -self-advocacy, self-efficacy and empowerment -skill development -community connection and natural supports collectively, usually 190 individuals are reached which is the programs goal.