Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Minnesota Department of Health is seeking grant applications from private nonprofit organizations to provide positive alternatives programs that support, encourage, and assist women in carrying their pregnancies to term and caring for their babies after birth. The goal of the program is to improve pregnancy outcomes and support family selfsufficiency. Eligible applicants are private, non-profit organizations who have had an alternatives-to-abortion program in place for at least one year as of July 1, 2011, or have had such a program incorporated for at least one year as of July 1, 2011. Eligible programs will provide women with information on, referral to, and assistance with securing the following services: medical care, supplemental nutrition, housing assistance, adoption services, education and employment assistance, including services that support the continuation and completion of high school, childcare assistance and parenting education and support services.