Title V Funds are essential in supporting NJ’s MCH efforts. FHS uses Title V MCH funding as a source for multiple public health interventions to address health disparities and inequities for NJ’s birthing people. The current initiatives positively impact health outcomes, risk factors, chronic diseases, mental health, and the COVID-19 response. Here are a few examples of key programs funded by Title V funding:

Healthy Women, Healthy Families initiative – to fund grantees that provide services and support birthing individuals in the communities and potentially improve maternal and infant health and reduce both Black Infant and Black Maternal mortality.

ConnectingNJ – to fund grantees to operate and maintain a single point of entry for families to access needed resources such as home visiting, community health worker support, doula care, etc.

NJ Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) - to fund grantees to conduct FIMR-related activities (e.g., Chart review, family interview); these activities that seek to identify ways to strengthen the systems of care and resources available to families to prevent future deaths.

School Health NJ - to fund grantees working with underserved school districts in NJ to create school nurse led school health teams and implement evidence based social-emotional learning programming aligned with the CDC Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework.

Title V funding serves as the main funding source used by the NJ TVP to support MCH populations in accordance with Title V and other federal and state guidelines to protect and promote the health and well-being of women, children, and families. Please see the Table in the Expenditures Section. It depicts the federal / state partnership and how State MCH funds support Federal Title V funds.

Title V funds are used to support NJ’s state-priority MCH efforts, including increasing equity in healthy births, reducing Black infant mortality, improving nutrition and physical activity, promoting youth development, improving access to quality care for children and youth with special health care needs, reducing teen pregnancy, improving, and integrating health information systems and smoking prevention. Therefore, Title V funds are necessary to equitably improve the health of birthing people and their families in NJ.