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Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition, Inc. — 2003-04 TLC Newborn Program IRC Board of County Commissioners — Children 's Services Advisory Committee 42% for the Healthy Start Infant/Postnatal Screen. This indicates nearly half of the pregnant women or infants in our county are NOT being screened for poor risk factors and could potentially be missed in terms of needing education and support. This is acceptable from a service delivery perspective, due to the limited staff of Healthy Start Care Coordination not being able to serve more than a few hundred families for ongoing case management anyway. But TLC fills this gap in care and services and provides a safety net for any families that were not screened for Healthy Start and might need additional case management or nursing services that Healthy Start or Healthy Families can offer. One of the best indicators of the success of the TLC program, in addition to the Healthy Start and Healthy Families programs , is the very low infant mortality rate in the last two years, which has been at 3 . 6 and 3 . 9 infant deaths per 1 , 000 live births in Indian River County, with postnatal infant deaths (infant dying between 28 to 365 days of life) being extremely low and way below the state average, which is the category that TLC services would most likely prevent. 4. List staffing needed for your program, including required experience and estimated hours per week in program for each staff member and/or volunteers (This section should conform with the information in the Position Listing on the Budget Narrative Worksheet). TLC Coordinator — 30 hours per week (75 % Full Time Equivalent - FTE) TLC Assistant Coordinator — 20 hours per week Three (3) TLC Family Associates - 10 hours per week each (one Family Assoc . is bi-lingual) Secretary — 10 hours per week The TLC staff have nursing, psychology or child education backgrounds and all have college degrees . The continuity and professionalism of the current staff have been one of the cornerstones for theprogram ' s success over the last five years . 5. How will the target population be made aware of the program? Contact is made at the hospital with the mother and family of the newborn. TLC Newborn brochures, which describe the services, are at Indian River Memorial Hospital, Indian River County Health Department, and obstetric medical providers ' offices and distributed at health fairs . Hospital personnel enthusiastically describe and endorse TLC Newborn to the mothers . Because the program is universal in nature, much of the awareness comes from word of mouth from the 1 ,000 new moms and families the program serves each year, as well as from the grandparents and relatives of the newborn . The IRCHS Coalition also markets the program through its newsletter, public presentations, every other month Coalition meetings, and at health fairs or other public events . 6. How will the program be accessible to target population (i. e. location, transportation, hours of operation) ? Visits to Indian River Memorial Hospital are made six out of seven days of each week by the TLC Newborn personnel who meet the mother of every newborn either the day of delivery of her baby or the day after. Infants born on Sunday, are normally contacted on the second day after delivery. Follow up phone calls are made with each family of a newborn who is interested in participating in the TLC Newborn program, which is over 95 percent of all newborn families seen by TLC in Indian River County, 7