2025 Children's of Alabmama Community Health Needs Assessment

Firearms Safety – distributed over 1,000 gun locks to community through various “pop-up” events within the hospital and events in Central Alabama. Firearms safety videos and media PSAs were produced and distributed through multi-media channels Including:

• Minute With Children's: Firearms Safety, 2024 • Friday Night Rivals PSA: Firearms Safety, 2024

• Partners In KidsHealth: Secure Firearm Storage, 2025 • 2 Firearm Safety Podcasts recorded and distributed, 2024 • 12 social media posts garnering 300 engagements • "Just Be" Safe Storage of Firearms event In Pickens County, 2025 • 8 community events with 600 adults attending and 375 cable locks distributed In 2025

Healthcare Access

Actions Taken Children’s of Alabama undertook several initiatives to improve healthcare access, particularly in rural and underserved communities: • Continued participation in the Pediatric Access to Telemental Health Services (PATHS) program through a renewal of a HRSA grant in partnership with the Alabama Department of Mental Health. o Expansion of PATHS services to primary care providers in 47 of Alabama’s 67 counties, supporting diagnosis, treatment, and management of mild to moderate pediatric behavioral health conditions. o Delivery of ECHO education, provider training, and community education through PATHS. • Continued support for the Psychiatric Intake Response Center (PIRC), providing free statewide access to licensed mental health clinicians via phone or in person. • Dissemination of CHNA findings and data to statewide professional organizations and stakeholders to inform broader system-level decision-making. Impact PATHS • FY23 was the final year of the original 5-year PMHCA grant awarded to ADMH. COA was contracted to carry out most of the activities of the grant including the case review (consultation) line, ECHO sessions offered to enrolled providers discussing behavioral health topics, and telemedicine services to referred patients. This year also included community outreach/training with supplemental funding through ADMH. o 103 practices enrolled o 16 ECHO sessions conducted for enrolled providers o 17 trainings for counselors, DHR workers, Head Start workers, and foster parents o 370 consultations for providers through the case review/consultation line o 536 telemedicine sessions provided

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Children’s of Alabama, 2025 CHNA