Maternal and Child Health Access

“The Audit Committee meets with the auditors to review and discuss a draft of Form 990 and approves Form 990 in its final form before presenting it to the board of directors for review.”

“The process for monitoring and enforcing compliance with the Organizations Policy is for all employees to review and sign our "Conflict of Interest Policy" annually.”

“Salary scale is determined by reviewing and analyzing the salary structure of comparable Non-Profit Organizations in addition to referring to the Non-Profit directors compensation survey report.”

“Other key employee salaries are set historically or in consultation with HR for new positions, and granted annual COLAs.”

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“Documents are available upon written request.”

“Reinstatement of net assets = $6871”

“Maternal and Child Health Access (MCHA) is a California Non-Profit Organization with the mission statement: Through direct support, individual advocacy, policy change and health care workforce transformation, MCHA is building a California where women and families are supported, and everyone has the opportunity to be healthy.During the year ending December 31, 2024, MCHA provided direct services in two main offices and in the community, and from home to over 3,000 women and their familymembers in its two perinatal home visitation and case management programs. Online classes were provided bi-weekly to around 100 women at a time; and support groups to about 10-15 women. Online home visitation took place in our Welcome Baby program at regular intervals to over 3,000 families. We provided services to over 20,000 individuals seeking enrollment in, renewal of, or assistance with free or low-cost health coverage or services; to over 10,000 families needing CalFresh information and food support; and to almost 1,000 people representing 200 government, social service agencies, schools and clinics through our health coverage training and technical assistance program. We provided hundreds of hours of technical assistance to these agencies about health and nutrition coverage issues. We held monthly online community agency meetings offering speakers, resources and technical assistance.MCHA maintains: bi-weekly health education classes and breastfeeding support groups a monthly meeting for community agencies about maternal and child health-related topics additional food, housing, diapers, clothing, and other supplies for families assistance with income support through government and private programs an outreach program for enrolling families into health care coverage and troubleshooting their health coverage or health services issues, with a subcontract to another community enrollment organization a case management program and a home visitation program for pregnant and parenting women and their families a CalFresh (food stamp) enrollment and issues program, which has blossomed into overall food insecurity assistance including Pandemic EBT, WIC and food cards a training /technical assistance program about health care coverage and services for community-based organizations and others. In 2018, MCHA added nutrition coverage for CalFresh to the training program.MCHA also conducts administrative and individual advocacy and policy work to improve health care and social services coverage and quality.”

“Welcome Baby is a model home visitation program designed to improve maternal health and birth outcomes, and provide support for pregnant and parenting women and their families. The program promotes the mothers and babys health, well-being and enhanced nurturing, and understanding of babys development. We provide information, support and a trusted parent coach to meet with women and support them through pregnancy and the first nine months of their babys lives. During home visits, the Welcome Baby staff refer clients to needed resources, distribute baby and mom-friendly items, provide breast feeding education, and provide information on accessing health care coverage. Welcome Baby has expanded to 13 program sites countywide, and MCHA helps oversee and support those sites by providing training, consulting and shadowing, which allows new parent coaches to follow and observe an experienced mentor, and MCHA to observe other parent coaches.Total program expenses were $2,542,077.”