My Healthy Baby Infrastructure Grant

The My Healthy Baby Infrastructure Grant, offered by the Indiana Department of Health, aims to support infrastructure costs for delivering comprehensive perinatal home visiting services. Eligible applicants include organizations with signed agreements with My Healthy Baby or those with evidence-based models. Funds may cover professional training, technology enhancements, and partnership building, ensuring improved service delivery to families during pregnancy and the first year of the child's life.

Purpose
The purpose of this opportunity is to support one-time infrastructure costs incurred to assure delivery of coordinated and comprehensive high-quality voluntary perinatal home visiting services to families.
Use of Funds
For the purpose of this RFA, the term ‘infrastructure expenditures” refers to the costs necessary to enable recipients to deliver home visiting services but may not include the costs such as staff time, mileage for visitation, indirect costs, or other human resource costs.
Allowable recipient level expenditures may include the following:
Professional development training or other appropriate expenses related to one or more of the My Healthy Baby Standards. Lactation consultant trainingInstitute for Strengthening Families Spring or Fall conferenceLabor of LoveTechnology enhancements to better deliver services.Language access costs to serve non-English speaking clients.Costs related to client enrollment and/or retention.Costs related to staff recruitment and/or retention (if applicant received previous HCBS funding, please describe how this supplements previous award).Costs related to data sharing with My Healthy Baby.Costs related to regional or county partnership building between home visiting programs and referral partners (Examples include: Meeting support and collaborative outreach events). Within this category:Applicants are encouraged to include other home visiting partners in the proposed partnership (e.g., Healthy Families will be collaborating with NFP and Early Head Start).Applicants are encouraged to include a brief letter of support from collaborating partners.

Eligibility

Applicant EligibilityPrograms that have a signed partner agreement in place with My Healthy Baby are invited to apply.Applications from organizations that are not part of the My Healthy Baby referral network will be considered, provided they have an established, evidence-based perinatal home visiting model or Indiana specific model that:Includes voluntary perinatal home visiting as the primary service delivery strategy.Has been well established in the local community for at least one year.Targets outcomes including breastfeeding, safe sleep, tobacco cessation, and birth spacing.Serves families during pregnancy and through at least the first year after the baby is born.