Deadline: 1-Oct-22
The Bootheel Families & Babies is partnering with the Missouri Foundation for Health are offering Mini Grants Program to lower their region’s infant mortality rate.
These grants are designed to provide a small infusion of cash for grassroots efforts.
Focus Areas
Funding is available in six counties and will be awarded to nonprofit organizations that align with their three focus areas:
- Unsafe sleep habits: Unsafe sleep habits, such as bed sharing, kill more babies in the Bootheel than anything else. These deaths can be prevented, and it’s as simple as learning your ABC’S:
- Babies should always sleep ALONE.
- Babies should always sleep on their BACKS.
- Babies should always sleep in a CRIB or other safe SLEEP SURFACE.
- Healthcare: From economic challenges and behavioral influencers, to the absence of education and lack of access to resources, the causes for infant mortality are numerous. Both pre- and post-natal care have been identified as critical factors in infant mortality. These include:
- Health of the mother: An unhealthy lifestyle that includes a poor diet and substance misuse, such as smoking, can greatly affect the baby’s health during and after pregnancy.
- Prenatal care: Access to early and consistent prenatal care from a healthcare provider is crucial to ensure both a successful pregnancy, and a healthy baby.
- Baby’s nutrition: Post-birth, it’s essential for babies to receive adequate and appropriate nutrition, and to avoid items that could potentially be unhealthy.
- Explore what Bootheel Babies & Families is doing to address these causes in six Bootheel counties.
- Substance misuse: Substance abuse and misuse, from smoking and consuming alcohol to opioid use during pregnancy, put both mother and baby at risk before and after birth – including the far-reaching effects of premature birth, birth defects, neonatal abstinence syndrome, development delays and other factors in infant health and mortality.
- Bootheel Babies & Families brings together regional healthcare providers, including hospitals, pediatricians, obstetricians, primary care physicians and substance abuse treatment providers, to collaborate and provide support for expectant and new moms.
- Explore what Bootheel Babies & Families is doing to address these causes in six Bootheel counties.
Funding Information
Should not exceed $1000 except under special circumstances
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be granted to a 501c3
Note: After review by the Hub Partner and the Community Task Force, a recommendation will be made to the Bootheel Babies and Families Executive Council for approval and payment.
For more information, visit https://www.bootheelbabies.org/grant-funds/