Success Stories by Topic: Family planning

• Olympic Peninsula Maternal Child Home Visiting: Strengthening Services Through Collaboration
  May 2009
  The goals of the project were to improve the quality of maternal and child home visits through training, support, and enhanced local resources; to improve the home visiting program by increasing revenues through private insurance and Medicaid; and to expand the number of home visits by increasing outreach to postpartum women living in outlying areas.
• Womens Health Project
  January 2007
  The overall goal of the program is to foster increased capacity and resources to assure rural health delivery of quality programming for women's health, including family planning and risk reduction services in three counties in north central Minnesota.
• Best Babies
  January 2007
  Best Babies will offer a comprehensive, integrated approach to perinatal care for women in these counties who are at high risk for adverse birth outcomes including maternal or infant mortality, low birth weight, very low birth weight, or other medical or developmental problems.
• Rural Health Outreach Program for Children (Mena, Arkansas)
  July 2005
  Nine local organizations that offered different types of health and social services agreed to create a consortium to share responsibility for providing a range of services to young parents and expectant mothers.
• School Health Network (Canton, Illinois)
  July 2005
  This network was designed to increase access to health care for school-aged children, improve student health status, and decrease absenteeism as well as launching a "Prevention Coalition" to address four key public health challenges in local schools: alcohol and other drug use; violence; teen pregnancy; and transmission of HIV and other STDs.
• Youth Health Initiative
  July 2005
  School-based health clinics were established in six schools in two counties with successful innovations that included free immunizations for all youth in the targeted schools, a social worker to identify and enroll students eligible for Medicaid or CHIP and to perform case management on all enrollees, and teen educational programs and counseling services.
• Tri-County Health Connections Network
  July 2005
  This project was a community-based initiative to enhance prevention and early intervention services for pregnant and postpartum women, their infants, and families living in rural central Iowa.
• Warrior Wellness Center
  July 2005
  To address the serious issue of teen pregnancy in Jefferson County, a network was formed to establish an effective mechanism for proactive pregnancy prevention and health promotion outreach for the county's rural adolescents.