Illuminate Colorado, Inc.

Pregnant & parenting people and women of childbearing age in the San Luis Valley are not receiving the integrated care, care coordination, and responsive support they need. We will achieve our overall project goal and consequently reduce NAS cases in SLV by focusing on our three primary drivers: 1) increasing access to coordinated preconception services, 2) increasing access to coordinated prenatal, labor & delivery, and behavioral health care, and 3) increasing access to coordinated postpartum support services for our target population. The required approaches from HRSA serve as the secondary drivers, and each of our 18 identified strategies (or change concepts) bolster the secondary drivers that then contribute to the progress on each primary driver. Inspired by the systemic, cultural, and language barriers that lead to poor outcomes in our region, health equity is a concerted focus of our grant. It is for this reason that we have chosen to focus on strategies that build capacity and foster coordination and collaboration between existing programs and that offer culturally and linguistically appropriate support to navigate care.