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Organization: Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition, Inc. Program: TLC Newborn Funder: LRC Board of County Commissioners — Children's Services Advisory Committee - 0546 Grant Application PROPOSAL NARRATIVE Please respond to each question in the allotted space for each section. In responding to each section of the proposal narrative, please retain the section-label and/or question that you are addressing. Type using 12 pt. font on 8 %z" X 11 " paper and number each page. These directions and the graphic boxes may be deleted if space is needed. A. ORGANIZATION CAPABILITY (Entire Section A not to exceed one page) 1 . Provide the mission statement and vision of your organization . The mission of the Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition is to establish a system that guarantees all women have - access to prenatal care and that all infants have access to services that promote normal growth and development. The vision is to provide the resources and mechanisms available in Indian River County that lead to healthy birth outcomes and brain development. The Vision Statement for the TLC Newborn program is "Healthy Families — Strong Communities". The mission statement for TLC is "strengthening families of newborns by providing information; promoting understanding and reassuring parents ." 2 . Provide a brief summary of your organization including areas of expertise, accomplishments, and population served. The Coalition' s purpose is to provide coordination and build broad-based community support for maternal and child health (MCH) . This is accomplished by establishing partnerships between the private and public sector, state and local government, community alliances and maternal and child health providers to provide coordinated community based care for pregnant women, infants and families with children up to age three for Care Coordination and age five for Healthy Families . Areas of expertise include birth and maternal data analysis, program planning, development, implementation, and addressing gaps in MCH services . Once gaps in service or poor birth outcome trends have been identified, then the necessary steps are taken to improve these gaps in care by building bridges, linkages or adding new services if they currently do not exist to meet the MCH needs in Indian River County. Additional areas of expertise include outreach, providing educational opportunities addressing MCH issues, and ensuring a system is in place for all pregnant women, infants and children. The Coalition developed and put in place the TLC Newborn Program in 1998 , which serves more than 1 ,000 infants each year, as well as the parents of the newborns . The Coalition also serves as the lead agency for Healthy Families — IRC, which provides intensive case management to well over 120 families each year, with the primary goal of preventing child abuse in at-risk families. In addition, the Coalition oversees Healthy Start Care Coordination services in partnership with the Indian River County Healthy Department, which serves approximately 575 families each year. 4