Public Hearing on PGCPS School Buildings, County Curfew, Maryland Expands Maternal Health Care- Issue #42
Public Hearing on PGCPS School Buildings, County Curfew, Maryland Expands Maternal Health Care- Issue #42
Capital Improvement Programs
The Capital Improvement Program is having a public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Residents can attend the hearing to comment on the plan. You can call in by using this phone # 1-301-715-8592. Enter this passcode: 545607
Please click here to join the webinar.
Here is the online registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTF0mc90flNwO4PFft9arCz5KLnx95hLLGZeHHAReL9KKhuw/viewform
You can also send comments via email to testimony@pgcps.org.
If you have questions, email here: capital.programs@pgcps.org.
The Capital Improvement Plan is a plan to renovate and rebuild schools throughout Prince George's County. Here is a master plan for 2023.
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County Curfew For 17 years-old and younger
Key takeaways: County Executive Angela Alsobrooks held a press conference earlier today, for the most part, laying out her plan to institute a 30-day curfew for 17-year-olds and younger.
Alsobrooks and Prince George's County Police Chief Malik Aziz said the curfew for this age group is implemented because most of the violent crimes committed - carjackings - are by teenagers.
Teenagers will have to be inside their homes from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., Sunday - Thursday.
A reporter for Maryland Matters tweeted more details.
Read more here:
Maryland Department of Health
The Maryland Department of Health is looking to expand maternal health care in Maryland by offering $2.26 million in grant funding to state organizations between Aug. 15 2022 and June 2035. Specifically, the funding helps to expand home visits.
MDH has awarded $865,000 to four Maryland organizations that will provide home visitations to pregnant women and parents with young children.
Excerpt from MDH newsletter:
Home visiting is a voluntary family support program driven by referrals from providers, hospitals, local health departments and community-based organizations. The program promotes infant and child health, fosters educational development and school readiness, and helps prevent child abuse and neglect. Home visits by trained professionals provide families with parenting information, resources and support from the time of pregnancy through a child’s first two to five years of life.
The organizations:
Baltimore Healthy Start (BHS) will partner with Chase Braxton Glen Burnie Health Center to expand home visiting services to postpartum women in Anne Arundel County. The program will use the Great Kids curriculum, designed for home visits beginning in the gestational stage of pregnancy. Families will be offered standard BHS case management and care coordination services through the Chase Brexton-based Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Disorder program.
Montgomery County Health Department will expand the Babies Born Healthy (BBH) program using the March of Dimes Becoming Mom (BAM) curriculum. BAM improves maternal knowledge through a community-based collaborative model of care, prenatal education, and quality prenatal care. BBH will serve high-risk pregnant people beginning at any stage in their pregnancy and follow the mother and infant until the child turns six months of age.
The Family Tree will expand home visiting services in Baltimore City through the Parents as Teachers (PAT) model. Home visitors make regular visits from prenatal through kindergarten age. The PAT curriculum focuses on mental health, nutrition, maternal depression, substance use, and domestic violence.
Washington County Health Department will expand existing home visiting services through the local program affiliate of Healthy Families America. The program will offer services to families starting prenatally and continuing through the child’s fifth birthday. Watch a Healthy Families America home visiting success story.