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Grant Programs

Office of Maternal and Child Health

Grant Program Goal Contact Funding
Healthy Start Projects To reduce infant mortality in Wards 5, 6, 7 and 8. Diane Davis
(202) 645-4184
$7.6 million
Maternal and Child Health Block Grant To maintain a city-wide system of family-centered, comprehensive, culturally-competent, quality health care and related services for women of childbearing age, mothers, infants, children, and adolescents, including children with special health-care needs. Marilyn Seabrooks Myrdal
(202) 442-5925
$7 million
State Mortality/Morbidity Review Support Program To stimulate, promote, coordinate, and sustain mortality and morbidity review programs in order to enhance needs assessment capacity, policy development, and quality improvement efforts. Deneen Long-White
(202) 442-9343
$150,000
State Systems Development To enhance the development of a coordinated system of primary health care for District families. Deneen Long-White
(202) 442-9343
$95,000
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention To develop, implement and monitor a newborn screening, early intervention and tracking program. Joyce Brooks
(202) 442-5925
$195,000