St. Anthony's Housecalls (Greater Chicago Division and Northwest Indiana Division- 1st Year)

$22,000

Housecalls is a unique program designed to provide timely client services, community outreach and education. This prenatal care coordination program is developed to work collaboratively with existing community organizations to assist low-income, high risk pregnant women in accessing medical, social, educational, and financial services they need to deliver babies that live to celebrate their first birthday.

Asian Human Services, Inc. (Greater Chicago Division-1st Year)	$18,000
The purpose of the Start Now project is to increase the number of Asian immigrant/refugee women who receive prenatal education and services through implementing a culturally and linguisically competent ethnic media campaign linked with a peer educator outreach program providing prenatal health information, education, and referral resources.

Wells Community Academy High School (Greater Chicago Division-1st Year)	$18,000
Wells Community Academy High School will work to reduce the incidence and complications of adolescent pregnancy while promoting high school students' scholastic achievements.

Will Conty Health Department (Northeast Illinois Division 2nd Year)	$18,000
The purpose of this program is to train adolescents to work as Peer Educators within Community Youth Organizations, educating other teens about pregnancy prevention.

Sinai Community Institute (Greater Chicago Division-1st Year)	$18,000
The purpose of this program is to train adolescents to work as Peer Educators within Community Youth Organizations, educating other teens about pregnancy prevention.

High Risk Infant Registry (Southern Illinois Division - 2nd year)

$11,056

Through a structured 12-week education initiative for pregnant and parenting teens, High Risk Infant Registry will address behaviors, activities and stressors that impact the health and development of the fetus and infant. This program will improve birth outcomes by reducing infant morbidity and mortality, child abuse and repeat births among teens while improving child health. This program will target low income teen families. Teen parents will be the primary focus for classes designed to offer parenting education.

Near North Health Service Corporation (Greater Chicago Division - 2nd year)	$10,000
The goal of this program is to expand an existing program which targets adolescents ages 11-16 that will improve the health of babies and reduce the rate of birth defects prevalent among teen pregnancies.

SIDS Alliance of Illinois (Greater Illinois Chapter - 1st year)	$10,000
It is the goal of this program to create and implement a comprehensive SIDS risk education campaign, designed to reach a high number of minorities. This campaign will take place during the month of October, 1998, National SIDS Awareness Month.

Whiteside County Health Department (Northern Illinois Division - 2nd year)	$10,000
The Whiteside County Health Department will implement a teen education project targeting middle school students. Outreach support for Hispanic women encouraging early and adequate prenatal care and a smoking cessation support group for young pregnant women and their families will also be included in this project.

Lake County Health Department (Greater Chicago Division - 2nd year)	$9,500
The purpose of this program is to provide culturally relevant prevention education to young Latinos. Grant funds will support El Futuro Es Nuestro, a program designed to provide primary pregnancy prevention to sixth grade Hispanic girls. This program will also involve other family members in the educational efforts.

Community Unit School District (Greater Chicago Division - 2nd year)	$9,500
The purpose of this program is to provide a coordinated health education program for pregnant and parenting teens. This program is designed to encourage the students to stay in school and have babies with healthy outcomes.

Centro San Bonifacio (Greater Chicago Division - 2nd year)	$9,500
The goal of this project to continue implementation of "Proyecto COMASDRES", a mother-to-mother peer education project which provides home-based prenatal education and support for newly-immigrated Hispanic women in West Town.

Livingston County Public Health Department (Central Illinois Division - 1st year)	$8,000
Livingston County Public Health Department will improve outreach efforts by providing prevention education and early detection and treatment of diseases to women of childbearing age. This will positively impact infant health.

Catholic Social Service of LaSalle (Central Illinois Division - 1st year)

$8,000

This is Your Life was developed in response to the need for healthy and creative preventative measures for teens considering or engaging in consensual sexual activity. This program offers adolescents the opportunity to care for an infant through hands on activity while challenging them to consider factual up to date information regarding pregnancy and parenting, to make healthy choices, stay in school, delay pregnancy and develop career goals.

Boone County Health Department (Northern Illinois Division - 1st year)	$7,475
Boone County Health Deparment will institute a comprehensive, bilingual, community based prenatal/child health education course. The goal of this program is to reduce the incidence of birth defects, infant mortality and teen pregnancy and increase positive maternal/ child outcomes.

McHenry County Health Department (Norhtern Illinois Division - 2nd year)	$6,540
The Family Health Program will be expanded to provide prenatal and infant CPR classes. Funds will also be used for transportation and emergency medical supplies for prenatal and infant clients and their parents.

Macon County Health Department (Southern Illinois Division - 1st Year)	$3,000
The Women Infant and Chlordane at the Macon County Health Department and the Cooperative Extension Service will implement "Mother's Companions" to increase the number of WIC mothers who breast feed their babies in the early postpartum. In addition Macon County Health Department will work to increase the number of women who choose to continue breast-feeding beyond the first month.

Southeastern Crisis Pregnancy Center (Southern Illinois Division - 1st Year)	$2,900
To provide early prenatal care to women in rural area. To educate women on prenatal care and post natal care.

Stephenson County Health Department (Northern Illinois Division - 1st Year)	$2,525
To provide a portable scale and measuring apparatus for follow-up and assessment of the high risk maternal and infant clients at Stephenson County Health Department. Stephenson County Health Department will also work to provide manual breast pumps available for low income breast feeding mothers.

Fulton County Health Department (Central Illinois Division - 1st Year)

$2,000

Reduction of subsequent teen pregnancy by 80% among 30 participants in Teen Parenting Classes held in Southern Fulton County. Present Preconceptual health information to 200 junior and senior high school students in the South Fulton County school districts on sexually transmitted diseases and their impact on congenital anomalies and fetal/infant deaths. Establish a teen parent support group for 15 participants in three South Fulton County Schools.

HealthWorks Theatre (Chicago Division)	$1,500
This grant will provide the March of Dimes 5 performances of the "Don't Wait Until You See Me" production at schools or community organizations in the Chicagoland area. Healthworks Theatre will also travel to the Northwest Indiana Division to perform at three area high schools.

Project Alpha-Alpha Phi Alpha (Chicago Division)	$1,500
This program will provide a one day seminar for African-American teen males to educate them about teen pregnancy, human reproduction, STD awareness, decision making, values and goals.

Fayette County Health Department (Southern Illinois Division)	$1,200
When clients present at the Family Planning clinic, a genetic screening tool will be completed by the Family Planning Counselor. Each client will be provided with genetic and folic acid information. The tool will be evaluated by the Genetic Coordinator who will contact at risk clients to discuss the need for further evaluation.

Care Center of Springfield (Southern Illinois Division - 1st Year)	$700
Aid in salaries of personnel who staff a community-based pregnancy center servicing low income adolescents and women who are experiencing an at risk pregnancy. Funds have also been requested for the purchase of pregnancy tests and office supplies.

High Risk Moms (Greater Chicago Division)	$700
This program will provide expansion of the Winter Basket of Hope project to reach more high risk moms throughout the Chicagoland area. A training manual developed for volunteers will continue to be disseminated.

High Risk Moms (Northeast Illinois Division - 1st Year)	$700
Funds will support Health Works Theatre to perform "Don't Wait Until You See Me" at Kankakee County Teen Conference.

Kendall County Department of Health and Human Services (Northeast Illinois Division - 1st Year)	$500
The goal of this program is to reduce preterm births by offering a smoking cessation program for pregnant women in Kendall County.

Children and Youth Forum (Greater Chicago Division)	$500
The Children and Adolescents Forum conducts an Annual Adolescent Health, Leadership and Entrepreneur Conference. The goal of this conference is to encourage appropriate decision-making and healthy life style among freshman attending public high schools in Chicago.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (Greater Illinois Division)

$500

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority provides educational opportunities to pregnant and parenting teens at Greenfield-Robinson Transitional Living Center. Professional volunteer their services to present important health information to these young women to ensure their babies have healthy birth outcomes. The purpose of this program is to provide for essential material needs to women struggling financially at the time of their child's birth and within the first year of life.

Central Life Awareness Support Services (Northwest Indiana Division - 1st Year)	$260
To provide Central High School's pregnant students with their first months supply of prenatal vitamins.

Greater Illinois Chapter Community Service Grant Total

$231,000