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Family and Children First Council

125 E. Court Street, Suite 350, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
PH: (513) 946-4990 | FX: (513) 632-6527

Child and Family Health Services Consortium

Overview

The Hamilton County Child and Family Health Services Consortium (CFHS) is a group of health care providers who have worked together for over twenty five years to impact the health status of young, uninsured women and children in Hamilton County. The Consortium identifies health needs, service gaps and barriers to care for high risk, low income families and children and then plans community public health and clinical services to meet those needs. CFHS programs are funded through a grant from the Ohio Department of Health. The CFHS grant is administered by the Hamilton County Family and Children First Council (FCFC) who contracts with providers for provision of services and programs selected by the Consortium.

The Hamilton County CFHS Consortium is comprised of many local health care providers. Consortium members in 2011 include the Hamilton County Family and Children First Council, The Health Care Connection, Healthy Moms and Babes, Children's Hospital Adolescent Medicine, Hamilton County Public Health, Crossroad Health Center, Planned Parenthood, the Tri Health Alliance, University Hospital, the Union Institute, the Cincinnati Health Department, the Infant Vitality Committee, FIMR and the Perinatal Data Use Consortium. The Consortium meets monthly to assess progress on Consortium goals, to coordinate services, to review CFHS programs, to receive current data about health care needs and gaps in Hamilton County and to exchange information.

The Consortium is chaired by the Family and Children First Council, who administers the CFHS grant. The Council sub contracts with several of the Consortium member agencies to provide services and programs to achieve the Consortium goals.

Meetings

The Hamilton County CFHS Consortium, which is an active committee of FCFC, is comprised of many The Consortium meets monthly to assess progress on Consortium goals, to coordinate services, to review CFHS programs, to receive current data about health care needs and gaps in Hamilton County and to exchange information. Meetings are typically held on the first Thursday of every month at 2:00 at the Hamilton County Public Health building at 250 William Howard Taft Road. Meetings are open and anyone is welcome to attend. Please call the Council office at 513-946-4990 on the first Thursday of the month to make certain a meeting is scheduled that day if you plan to attend.

CFHS Grant

Every five years the Ohio Department of Health issues a competitive RFP for counties interested in impacting the priority populations and outcomes identified by ODH as being vital to the overall health of the community. The components of the CFHS grant are community health assessment and planning, child and adolescent health, prenatal health and Ohio Infant Mortality Reduction; one or more of those components had to be addressed in the grant application. The three measures/targets selected by ODH for this five year grant are: prematurity, infant mortality and overweight children.

FCF issued a Request for Proposals for these priorities in the spring of this 2011 and providers were selected and approved by the FCF Executive Committee. A description of the programs being provided for FY 12 can be found in the local health care providers section on this website.

Community Health Assessment

One of the essential tools used by the Consortium to identify county needs and to look at county wide progress in improving child and family health outcomes is the Hamilton County Maternal and Child Health Assessment (MCHA). The purpose of the MCHA is to:

	Describe the current status of and trends in maternal/child health indicators
	Track progress in improving maternal/child health
	Inform community planning and policy making
	Monitor impacts of policy decisions and investments

The Maternal and Child Health Assessment was compiled by the National Research Center for CFHS and is updated annually. A plethora of valuable information about key indicators of the health status of our community can be found in the Maternal and Child Health Assessment report.