| 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 |