Project: Empowering Women in Community Leadership for Healthier Families

Goal: Prepare women of childbearing age as Peer Leader Liaisons (PLLs) to enhance existing state and community-based efforts to reduce the risk of preventable Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDDs), specifically FAS/FASD and those caused by lead poisoning.

Target Demographic: Women of Childbearing age.

Agency: Partnership for Maternal & Child Health of Northern NJ (PMCHNNJ)

Project: Smart Choices for a Healthy Life

Goal: Utilize the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) K-12 Education and Prevention Curriculum in schools, after school programs, CBOs, and school districts serving target municipalities in order to prevent intellectual and developmental disabilities by reducing the incidence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Target Demographic: Students in K-12 Educational Settings.

Agency: Rutgers School of Public Health

Project: ASD Screening Project

Goal: Implement Universal Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening in a Large Pediatric Practice and refer identified children to Early Intervention Services.

Project: Smart Choices for Healthy Living

Goal: Utilize the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) K-12 Education and Prevention Curriculum in schools, after school programs, CBOs, and school districts serving target municipalities in order to prevent intellectual and developmental disabilities by reducing the incidence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. PMCHNNJ will also provide screening and early intervention education to school nurses and prevention education to college students.

Target Demographic: Students in K-12 Educational Settings, School Nurses and College Students.

Agency: New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (NJ AAP)

Project: Childhood Lead Poisoning Education ECHO Program

Goal: Educate primary care clinicians and community stakeholders about the importance of prevention, early identification and referral of children with elevated blood lead levels.  Additionally, the program will also educate pediatric providers about the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) remediation program so that they can refer families to receive free home inspections to identify potential sources of lead.

Target Demographic: Pediatric Practices

Agency: Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN)

Project: Leaders Empowered as Advocates with Dignity (LEAD)

Goal: Provide leadership training and education, and community engagement to prevent intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DDs), specifically Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FAS/FASD).