final do not touch - Open Arms Perinatal Services

2010 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
A Word From Our Executive Director
O
n behalf of Open Arms, we are proud to share our
2010 Report with you, our community. In 2010,
we worked with over 220 pregnant women and
their families throughout King County and
welcomed 126 new lives into the world.
This year continued to be difficult for many in the communities we serve and we saw a dramatic increase in issues that our
clients faced - domestic violence, family instability, food
insecurity and housing crises among them. In addition to
meeting the birthing needs of our clients, we spent time
solidifying and broadening our partnerships with other
organizations and working creatively with our clients to help
each new family welcome their baby in as safe and secure a
way as possible.
In addition to direct services, community involvement and
advocacy are equally important to our mission. To this end,
Open Arms is active on many local and statewide coalitions
and committees that help pregnant women, their families and
communities survive and thrive. On a policy level, we are
actively involved in infant mortality prevention and addressing
health disparities as well as giving input on developing early
learning systems and home visiting systems that support,
honor and respect our families and communities.
The past five years have been rapid growth years for Open
Arms. In late 2010, Open Arms embarked on a strategic
“I wish I had this kind of support when I had my
first baby ten years ago. I've learned so much it would have made things really different
planning process in an effort to define our priorities and goals
for our agency as we move into the future as a mid-sized
agency, with emphasis on programmatic excellence and financial stability. We look forward to continuing this process in
2011.
These are hard times we are in, full of joy and challenges,
exhilaration and worry. We are proud of the change Open Arms
is creating in our communities and in the lives of the women we
touch and, at the same time, humbled by the strength and power
of the women and families who are struggling day to day as they
bring their children into the world. And, we are full of gratitude
for all the contributions of volunteers, staff, donors, families and
partners that are invaluable to the work we do.
Thank you for being on this journey with us.
Warmest Regards,
the first time.”
Open Arms Client
Sheila Capestany
Executive Director
Peggy Fitzgerald
Board President
2010 Program Update
Birth Doula Services
Open Arms was honored to receive the Innovative Program
Award from the Seattle Human Services Coalition in June of
2010 for our Birth Doula Services program. The Coalition
recognized our unique, culturally competent doula services as
a crucial element in helping to eliminate health disparities in
our communities and addressing these disparities from the
earliest stage of human development. The award also cited our
positive program results, which include providing education
about pregnancy and positive early parenting, increasing rates
of breastfeeding and reducing medical interventions and the
cost of prenatal care.
The Birth Doula Services program operates at capacity each
month, with services filling up an average of 2-3 months
ahead and supplemented further by the generous donation of
time from volunteer doulas. Yet still there is great need: each
month we must turn away clients whom we cannot serve due
to funding. Our doulas are now able to serve Open Arms
clients in 15 languages including English, up from seven
languages in 2009. We are finding several of our clients feel
called to doula work after the birth of their babies and have
gone on to train as birth doulas themselves, providing an
exciting, sustainable framework for employment and extended
support for families within communities.
In 2010, Open Arms began an intensive evaluation process for
our doula program. Results will be used to improve our
services and contribute to the knowledge base around
effective community-based programs for mothers, infants and
families.
Outreach Doula Services
We continue to serve women in the Latina and Somali
communities as part of our community partnership with the
White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI). In 2010, we
celebrated the first birthdays of several of the first babies born
while families were enrolled in this program. Our outreach
doulas have been very creative in supporting clients according
How long do our programs serve
families?
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Birth Doula Services – 3rd trimester
through birth until 6-8 weeks postpartum
Outreach Doula Services – early in
pregnancy through birth and up to 2
years postpartum
Breastfeeding Peer Counselors
(2011 and beyond) – up to two
months postpartum
to their individual needs and the needs of the community and
serve many roles for the families they work with – not only in
support of pregnancy, birth and postpartum but also in the role
of cultural navigator, “walking alongside” women from their
community to help new moms navigate and access resources
for their children and support their children’s early learning,
right from the beginning of life.
Scholarship Fund
In 2010, we granted 15 scholarships to women through our
scholarship program, which provides financial assistance for
aspiring birth doulas, postpartum doulas and childbirth
educators. Scholarships can be applied to approved doula or
childbirth educator training courses, course materials and
membership, apprenticeship, or certification fees.
Advocacy Work
As issues arise for the women and communities we serve,
Open Arms responds by advocating for change and long-term
improvement in women’s perinatal health. In 2010, we joined
Legal Voice to work against a policy of shackling incarcerated
women during labor and childbirth. Washington is one of only
a handful of states who passed this important human rights
legislation. Additionally, Open Arms continues to advocate
for women’s needs locally as well as globally and continues to
promote health and well-being for mothers and babies in our
community.
Fiscal Agency
As a part of our mission to provide community-based support,
OA acts as fiscal agent to several groups who are doing
essential work in our community for women, children and
families. In 2010, we were fiscal agents for a number of small,
progressive organizations, including Black Star Line, Brown
Sugar Babies and Birth Attendants.
Community Partnership
Open Arms is a community partner with the White Center
Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), Denise Louie Education
Center, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth
(GAPPS), Equal Start and the Simkin Center and Midwifery
Department at Bastyr University. As part of our community
As well as the more well-known physical and emotional
benefits to mothers and babies, breastfeeding is a proven
protective factor against abuse and neglect, and it can
increase mother-child attachment. Of our new mothers, 95%
began with breastfeeding.
Low birth weight and prematurity put babies at risk for a
number of potentially lifelong complications and at worst,
can lead to the death of an infant. Helping mothers stay
pregnant through to term and increasing awareness about
healthy nutrition is one way to impact these unacceptable
outcomes. Among babies born with Open Arms doulas, 3.5%
were low birth weight, versus 8.2% in the overall US
population.
partnership work, Open Arms staff also sit on a number of
regional and national bodies working on issues related to our
mission with emphasis on maternal and infant health and wellbeing, as well as community-based work and multiculturalism.
Open Arms participates on state-wide advisory committees and
task forces that impact health disparities, early learning and
home visiting services. As other organizations, agencies and
educational institutions recognize the importance of communitybased work and support for women and infants during the time
around birth, Open Arms will continue to provide local and
national leadership and modeling on these issues.
New Program: Breastfeeding Peer Counselors
Open Arms was awarded a contract with Public Health-Seattle
and King County WIC to provide community-based
breastfeeding peer counseling for women who receive WIC
support. This program will extend the reach of breastfeeding
support to low-income African American, Amharic, Latina,
Somali, Tigrigna, Ukrainian/Russian, Vietnamese and White
communities. Open Arms will launch this program in June 2011.
Program Results
It’s difficult to measure the true impact that doulas have on a
woman’s life. It’s impossible to quantify the value of a woman
not being alone during pregnancy and the birth of her baby, of
showing up at someone’s house when she’s been up all night with
a newborn, or of having someone known and trusted to talk to
when feeling worried or overwhelmed with parenting. It’s hard to
tally cost-savings of complications or poor health outcomes that
never happened because they were prevented. But at Open Arms,
we consider these interventions immeasurably worthwhile, or as
we put it: “evidenced-based magic.” However we do have many
outcomes that are measurable and we’d like to share some of
those with you.
Recovering from major surgery while also adjusting to the
challenges of having a newborn is tremendous. For women who
live with other social life stressors, the task sometimes feels
insurmountable. The 2010 Open Arms C-section rate was 23%
and of these, only 17% were unplanned. For comparison, the rate
of C-section at major Puget Sound hospitals is 38-40%.
Open Arms doulas serve as cultural navigators for the
medical system as well as for broader services and
community resources, helping families to bridge the gaps of
language and culture in order to support their child’s earliest
health and learning. Approximately 48% of our mothers were
from immigrant or refugee populations.
Board of Directors
Peggy Fitzgerald, M.Ed, President
Erica Nixon-Mack, Vice-President
*Ty Watanabe, MBA, CPA, Treasurer
Dr. Kelly Beekin, MD, CD
Sharon Cunnington
*Chiemi Davis, MSW
Emily Kane
*Dr. Jay McLean-Riggs, MD, MPH
Geoff Miller, JD (exiting)
Sarah Pulliam, LICSW, MPH
Sara Thompson (exiting)
Sabrina Urquhart
Tom Vasquez (exiting)
* New board members in 2011.
Staff
Sheila Capestany, MPH, MSW Exec. Director
Annie Moffatt, LM, CD birth and postpartum
Michelle Sarju, LM, CPM
Yvette Dioubate, CD
Erica Sugita
Hawa Egal, CD
Margarita Celis, CD
Libin Egal, CD
Jeff Deveaux
Financial Statement
Open Arms operates with a balanced budget. As with many small
nonprofits, our financial statement is a snapshot in time. We operate on
a January to December fiscal calendar, while two of our major grantors
operate on different calendars. The complexity of managing different
schedules sometimes means that a delay in scheduled reimbursements
will overlap the end of our fiscal year and is then recorded shortly into
our new fiscal year. Similarly, the overspend of $40,000 that is seen
between the revenue and expenditures in 2010 was due to program
expense originally funded and allocated for the 2009 fiscal year, but not
actually incurred until the first weeks of 2010.
Our 2010 numbers still show us with a very large single source funder,
Thrive By Five. This funding is specific to the White Center Early
Learning Initiative (WCELI) for our Outreach Doula Program. Our
Birth Doula Program and Scholarship Fund, by contrast, operate largely
though our fundraising efforts. In 2011, a new contract specific to the
Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program through Public Health/WIC will
also contribute to overall revenue for Open Arms.
Looking forward into 2011 and beyond, Open Arms will continue to
build diversity of funding and seek additional funding to support
infrastructure and capacity-building to ensure our ongoing stability as a
mid-size organization.
2524 16th Avenue South, Suite 207-A
Seattle, WA 98144
Visit us online at www.openarmsps.org.
Photography courtesy of melissagrace photography
2010 Total Revenue: $629,000*
Public-Private
Partnership
4% 5%
4%
Foundations and
Corporations
Individual
Contributions
87%
Special Events
2010 Total Expenses: $669,000*
7% 1%
Program
Management and
General Expenses
92%
Fundraising
* These numbers have not been audited.
Open Arms Perinatal Services Giving Tree
As part of our strategic plan, Open Arms is committed to securing a diverse and stable source of funding for our programs. We thank all of our
donors for their commitment to the health and well-being of women and babies in our region.
Roots
We welcome the following persons into an inner circle of investors, whose collective vision will inform our services. They have committed to
multiyear giving, anchoring and nourishing our programs.
Emily Anthony and David Maymudes
Lisa Chin and Nigel Green
Peggy and Charles Fitzgerald
Shoots
Our donors are the backbone of our organization, ensuring that women continue to receive services, even in a down economy, where the safety net
is shrinking.
Harun and Jama Abdullahi
Julee Abe
Rachel Abramson
Barbara Acevedo-Visser
Kristine Adair
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Newell Aldrich
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Canopy
Open Arms gratefully acknowledges the direct
support of Foundations and Major Gifts from
Corporations and the Community, including
matching gifts.
Adobe
Amazon
Bread for the Journey
Celebrated Chefs
Frank&Cents
General Electric
Golden Lasso
Lucky Seven
Microsoft
Norcliffe Foundation
March of Dimes
Seattle Foundation
Thrive By Five Washington
2010 Luncheon Sponsors
Thank you to our luncheon supporters and
sponsors. We deeply appreciate your support.
AterWynne LLP
Dennis Bounds, KING-5 News
Dr. Ben Danielson, MD
Foundation for Early Learning
Frank&Cents
HealthConnect One
melissagrace photography
Midwives’ Association of Washington State
milkmakers
ParentMap
Talaris Institute
Thrive By Five
W Seattle
Volunteers
Open Arms could not be successful in our
work were it not for the support of our talented
and dedicated volunteers. Thank you.
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