Programs
Title V Block Grant to States
Title V of the Social Security
Act is one of the largest Federal block grant programs. It leads the nation
in ensuring the health of all mothers, infants, children, adolescents,
and children with special health care needs (CSHCN).
Discretionary Grant Programs
- Discretionary
Grant Data. Program and performance data describe and help to measure
effectiveness of the more than 900 maternal and child health grants
HRSA makes each year to ensure that the Nation's women, infants, children,
adolescents, and their families, including fathers and children with
special health care needs, have access to quality health care.
Women and Infants
MCHB Objective: Eliminate barriers
and health disparities and increase access to high quality health care.
Child Health and Safety
MCHB Objective: Reduce illness, injury and death among children and
youth. Promote comprehensive, community-based health care that combines
public and private resources and promotes health environments where healthy
behaviors can develop.
Oral Health
MCHB
Objective: Promote comprehensive, community-based oral health
care services that combine public and private delivery systems, maximize
the effectiveness of Medicaid and SCHIP dental programs, and encourage
the application of science to practice in reducing disease burden.
Children with Special Health Care Needs
MCHB Objective: Support development and implementation of comprehensive,
culturally competent, coordinated systems of care for the estimated 18
million U.S. children who have or are at risk for chronic physical, developmental,
behavioral or emotional conditions and who also require health and related
services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally.
Adolescents
MCHB Objective: Support development, expansion and enhancement of
comprehensive, community-based, family-centered care
Data, Evaluation & Epidemiology
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Genetics
MCHB Objective: Support newborn screening and increase professional
and public knowledge of how genetic diseases affect health
MCHB Objective:
Support the National Hemophilia Program, the Thalassemia Comprehensive
Care projects, and the Sickle Cell Disease and Newborn Screening Program
and showcase them as models of comprehensive care for serving populations
of all ages with special health care needs.
Hemophilia
Treatment Center Manual for Participating in the Drug Pricing Program
Established by Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act
Factor
Replacement Product (FRP) Data Sheet Instructions
Factor
Replacement Product (FRP) Data Sheet
Research
MCHB Objective: Support research that finds better, more efficient
ways to provide maternal and child health services, especially preventive
care and early intervention.
Training
MCHB Objective: Support trainees, faculty, continuing education and
technical assistance to train the next generation of leaders in maternal
and child health. Emphasis on interdisciplinary, family-centered, culturally
competent care with a population-focused, public health approach.
Traumatic Brain Injury
MCHB Objective: Ensure that the estimated 5.3 million
individuals and their families who live with the effects of TBI in the
United States have access to comprehensive, coordinated systems of care
that are person-centered and attend to their changing needs from the moment
of injury throughout the rest of their lives.
Women's Health