Supporting Local Initiatives
NEW! Read the summary of the 2010-2011 Urban Initiative Grants: Successes in Improving Urban Reproductive Health
Through the Urban Initiative, the National Institute for Reproductive Health is committed to supporting innovative local initiatives that meet the goals of forging partnerships between elected officials and advocates, and of creating and promoting real policy solutions to address urban reproductive health issues.
The Urban Initiative is thrilled to announce our support for the following partners in 2011.
Local Policy Initiatives
The National Institute will support advocates in educating and advocating for policies that will improve access to reproductive health care services and/or improve the reproductive health of women in urban areas.
Following up on their successful passage of a Healthy Nail Salon Recognition Program ordinance in San Francisco, CA, the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative will work to promote similar ordinances in various localities throughout California. These ordinances will help promote the use of nontoxic chemicals in nail salons in order to prevent reproductive health complications for employees.
Inspired by successful ordinances to address the deceptive and misleading tactics of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Baltimore, Austin, and New York City, NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri Foundation, NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation, and NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina Foundation will launch investigations into CPCs in their respective states.
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Reproductive Health and Justice Roundtables
The National Institute will support two local partners in hosting a two-part series of Reproductive Health and Justice Roundtables to identify and bring together public health officials, advocates, and lawmakers for briefings on pressing reproductive health and justice issues in their community.
The Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Family Unity Project will convene two day-long roundtables for formerly-incarcerated women and girls, jail custody personnel, legal advocates, public health officials, policymakers, and social and reproductive justice activists to discuss reproductive health and family reunification services provided to incarcerated pregnant women in the San Francisco Bay Area. The roundtables will address the issue of shackling, as well as other reproductive health needs reported by incarcerated women.
Memphis Teen Vision will convene a series of two Roundtables concerning teens’ access to reproductive and prenatal healthcare in Memphis and Shelby County, TN. The roundtables will address the current provider landscape for reproductive and prenatal health services, and will lead to a plan of action for expanding services and access.
Evaluation of a Promising Model
The National Institute for Reproductive Health is supporting three organizations to evaluate the impact of their promising public health program or intervention. This funding stream will enable organizations to measure, evaluate and improve their efforts to provide sexual and reproductive health care services and information to hard-to-reach, urban populations in localities throughout the United States.
Aid to Inmate Mothers will evaluate their Women’s Health Initiative for Incarcerated Women (WHI-FI) in partnership with the Alabama Department of Public Health’s Office on Women’s Health. WHI-FI has been educating and linking women leaving prison to reproductive health care services at their local county health departments in Montgomery, Madison or Calhoun Counties in Alabama.
Neighborhood HealthSource will evaluate the scale-up of their texting to email program to increase access to sexual and reproductive health information and care to young people in low-income communities in North and Northeast Minneapolis, MN.
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon (PPSO) will evaluate their replication of the Adolescent Health Care Communication Project (AHCCP). AHCCP seeks to improve the delivery of sexual health services to young people by bridging the communication gap that exists between health care providers and their teen patients. PPSO will partner with first-term nursing students at Lane Community College to evaluate the effects of the AHCCP.
Read descriptions of the 2010 Policymaker Roundtables and Policymaker Leadership Institutes.
Read descriptions of all 2010 and 2009 grantees and grant-supported projects.