Brooklyn Perinatal Network Inc.

“The draft form 990 was presented and reviewed by the board of directors before its final submission.”

“The board members and key employees are required to complete an annual disclosure form indicating any conflict of interest or arrangements that could give rise to a conflict.”

“Compensation of top official is approved by the board.”

“Finance committee approves the executive director's salary.”

“The organization's 990 is available upon request at the organization's office. The organization's governing documents are also available for inspection, upon request at the organization's office.”

“Brooklyn perinatal network inc. (bpn) is committed to improving maternal child and family health in brooklyn's under-resourced and underserved communities, through building partnerships and networking with others, connecting service providers to close healthcare gaps and enabling client to access health promoting resources. Our strategy includes engaging in collective community actions that inform policy makers about the determinants impacting maternal and infant morbidity and mortality; and, facilitating solutions to enhance and protect the community's safetynet resources. We aim for prevention and mitigation of the disparities in perinatal health outcomes.”

“Bpn receives little direct funding for our efforts to promote this important collective approach. The nyc council funding under its maternal child health services initiative(mchsi) which has extended the infant mortality reduction initiative(imri)which work started in 2001, with bpn's advocacy leadership, is the only consistent financial support for this collaborative work with a group of select community based organizations (cbos) in our under-resourced communities. Bpn and other small cbos which have earned the high trust of our community residents are the real first realm of frontline providers and when crises arise - such as covid we are the ones they seek out to get help that can allow them to focus on health. The attached chart identifies our consistently funded programs that comprising bpn's major services categories facilitating access for clients. These are: -the nys health insurance exchange marketplace, the in-person assistor, facilitated enrollment (ipa) program: we have been providing this access since 1999 with the first program iteration of the child and family health insurance program. Child health plus. On average 10,000 applicants enrolled in insurance annually with about 60% being children. -the nyc city council mchsi funded healthy women health futures (hwhf) program, a dohmh-bpn partnership: this provides access to referrals for maternal and child medical and social service's needs, includingdoulas for birthing and post-partum support. Supports training of community member developing and hiring themas doula consultants to serve pregnant/postpartum women free of charge, to who need them. On average 50 doulas are trained annually citywide and 180-200 brooklyn women receive their services. -maternal and baby supplies: donated goods are provided to clients who need them - cribs, strollers, car seats, pampers; breasts pumps, clothing and a host of other items donated to bpn and to our cbo partners. Approximately, 600 individuals receive such goods per year. -the dohmh maternal infant health (mih) outcome initiative (phs managed the initiative): bpn partners with middle and high schools and community members develop peer to peer health informants/health advocates to provide health information being active in their school and community environments. About 225 school health education and community information sessions are conducted -the nyc city council mchsi infant mortality reduction initiative (imri): this provides funded collective work, collaboration for service coordination with select cbos and with health service providers. Bpn's collective work strategy is aimed as helping to strengthen the fabric the safety net social health ofservices in our communities to better address the health challenges that no one entity alone can be successful in tackling. Almost all bpn's services engage collaboration, that we initiate and sometimes lead, working with other service providers. The leadership team of the brooklyn coalition for health equity for women and families, comprising cbos and convened by bpn for over 2 decades, sponsors the collective imri initiatives. The coalition's work has significantly increased awareness about the community's determinants of health among our public health policymakers and service institutional decision makers. This collaborative work reaches and thousands of childbearing individuals and those parentin infants and young children, as well as engages adolescents in life planning promoting prevention of unwanted pregnancies. Bpn collective work also engages community members, some of them the most affected, empowering them to help address the social healthchallenges and to support solutions that can improve community maternal and child health outcomes. Currently the coalition focus is on promoting awareness of the magnitude of the crisis with the disparities in black maternal health outcomes, particularly in brooklyn. -the nysdoh first 1000 days on medicaid maternal infant care initiativ”

“Consultants 250,888 29,215 0 doula consultants 385,955 2,177 0 social services 88,394 3,988 0 other professional fees 58,971 1,746 0 total 784,208 37,126 0”

“The process has not changed from prior year.”