MOTHERS AND BABIES PERINATAL NETWORK OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK
457 STATE STREET, BINGHAMTON, NY 13901 www.mothersandbabies.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Mission of Mothers & Babies is to improve pregnancy and birth outcomes and to support the health and development of all individuals and families.

Like much of the rest of the country and the world, the inception of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 significantly impacted our ability to carry out services and how we have had to modify agency operations and service delivery during the last half of the year, and as we move forward during the next year. As noted by Board President, Rich Keehle: " we are very proud of how the agency has responded in connecting with our community to meet their needs during these very challenging times. A huge Thank You to our Mothers & Babies team led by our Executive Director Sharon Chesna, for their untiring dedication to their work and the support and assistance they provide to individuals and families each and every day. The pandemic has had significant impact on our agency, modifying and/or delaying some services and cancellation of our major fundraising event, the Fashion Gala. We are very grateful and elated to share that when the majority of local businesses that committed to being Gala Sponsors learned of our need to cancel the event; continued to support Mothers & Babies by turning their sponsorship commitment to direct donations."2019-20 performance: The volume of services provided by Mothers & Babies staff (of 31) was especially impressive this past year as we surpassed 14,000 for the number of clients served through our 4 program areas. We are proud that Mothers & Babies Perinatal Network (M&BPN) continues to be recognized as a strong and successful organization and for our programs and staff. Our Mission remains: to improve pregnancy and birth outcomes and to promote the optimal health and development of individuals and families. We focus on reducing infant mortality and morbidity, improving pregnancy and birth outcomes, and promoting and supporting families. During the past year ending 6/30/20 we accomplished the following:Our Community Health Workers helped 1,130 women find a provider or other health supportive professionals, identify family planning options and providers, find housing, set & achieve goals, providing education on pregnancy, parenting and child development. We remain proud to be the SCNY chapter of the National Cribs for Kids program through which we distributed cribs to over 100 families and provided safe sleep education to over 550 families this year. Through our Family Support Services, we continue to partner with Family Court and Social Services to assist parents seeking reunification with their child(ren) removed from home due to neglect charges. This year, we implemented a supplemental visitation program to increase the opportunity for parent/child bonding and reduce the childs length of stay in foster care. At the PAL Center, families benefited from a variety of activities and supports as well as had the opportunity to connect and engage with other families, complete both formal and informal parenting education programs and access our Kids Clothing Closet addressing a critical need. Our partnerships with local middle and high schools throughout the region continued to enable us to provide comprehensive sexuality education and life skills programming to more than 2,900 students. Although in-school education sessions stopped abruptly when the pandemic began, our youth educators worked tirelessly to re-design programs that could be provided virtually both through live and webinar-based sessions. Access to health care coverage and services is the common underlying goal to all our programs. During this past year, our health insurance navigators assisted 6,482 individuals with health insurance enrollment through the NYS Marketplace, and our Community Health Advocate assisted 614 individuals with problem resolution related to their health insurance coverage, resolving coverage issues, denials of claims, addressing billing issues and a myriad of health insurance related issues and saving them over $268,000!Our agency continues to rely on government and foundation grants to provide primary support of our programs. This year, more than ever before, community support has been essential for our sustainability and we are so very grateful for the numerous instances of community support over this past year. We continue to work with NYS and the local PPS - Care Compass Network to work toward the states goal of reducing unnecessary hospital and emergency department admissions for individuals with Medicaid/public health insurance coverage. Our partnership with CCN is continuing to enable us to expand our service reach assisting more high need individuals and families access essential medical treatment and health supportive services.Our Board of Directors and Administration staff remain committed to ensuring program effectiveness, organizational efficiency and integrity, as well as ensuring financial sustainability. Within each focus area, strategies include enhancing partnerships and establishing new relationships as we know no single agency or provider can improve community and family/individual health alone. Visit our website: www.mothersandbabies.org for more information about our programs and to access our annual report.

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