Overarching Priority: Assist Mercer County Residents Achieve a Healthy Weight and Lifestyle Throughout Their Lives.
Priority Group I – Maternal and Child Health
GOAL I: REDUCE THE PREVALENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN PREGNANT AND POST-PARUM WOMEN.
Key CHNA Findings:

  • An estimated 10% of women experience depression during pregnancy and 1 in 8-10 experience post-partum depression within the first year after childbirth, miscarriage or still birth.
Objective:

    1. Reduce the percent of pregnant women who experience depression during pregnancy from 10% to 8%, and the 11% of women who develop post-partum depression to 9%.
    2. To increase by 10% the number of pregnant women addicted to opioids and drugs, entering Medication Assisted Treatment programs.

Strategy

Performance Indicator

Responsible Party

1.1a

1.1b

 Support the formation of a mental health clinic coordinated by a social worker certified in clinical psychology.

Inform the CAB community and non-profits about this service by posting information on the GMPHP website and communicating with the CAB.
  • Clinic started in July 2018 at Children’s Futures – Wednesdays 9-4 pm.
  • # of notices sent out to CAB members and community
  1. Children’s Futures
  1. GMPHP

1.1c

1..1d

 Provide trauma informed counseling to 15 clients monthly at Children’s Futures.

Provide Trauma Yoga to one woman a week.
  • # of clients receiving services
  • # of clients receiving services
  1. Children’s Futures

d) Children’s Futures

1.1e

 Create a directory of

emergency services for post-partum women and disperse to

WIC sites, and Family Success

Centers.
  • Directory dispensed to sites
 e) Children’s Home Society

1.2

 Pregnant women with a positive drug screening test will be offered free entrance to the “My Baby and Me” program.

Patients will be followed, housed and treated, and not separated from their baby once born.
  • # of successful discharges
 a) Capital Health Medical Center

HomeFront

Catholic Charities

Rescue Mission

Trenton Health Team