Home Visiting Program Overview: Investing in Early Childhood Development
Discover the importance and impact of home visiting programs in supporting parents and children during the critical first five years. Learn about voluntary home visiting, the Home Visiting Consortium (HVC), and specific programs in Virginia. Explore the common goals and characteristics of home visiting initiatives to promote family well-being and child development.
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HOME VISITING: INVESTING FROM THE START
Change the first five years and you change everything. Laurel Aparicio, MPA Home Visiting Program Specialist Laurel.aparicio@vdh.virginia.gov
WHAT IS HOME VISITING? Voluntary home visiting matches parents with trained professionals to provide information and support during pregnancy and throughout their child s first five years a critical developmental period. Properly designed and delivered home visiting programs improve short and long term child and family outcomes.
HOME VISITING CONSORTIUM (HVC) A collaboration of statewide early childhood home visiting programs that serve families of children from pregnancy through age 5. Consortium membership includes state coordinators of each home visiting model and other state level early childhood leaders.
HOME VISITING IN VIRGINIA CHIP of Virginia Early Head Start Healthy Families VA Healthy Start/Loving Steps Nurse Family Partnership Parents as Teachers (PAT) Project Link Resource Mothers
VA HOME VISITING AT A GLANCE Home Visiting Program Target Population CHIP of Virginia Prenatal age 6 Low-income Healthy Families VA Prenatal age 5 At-risk Healthy Start/Loving Steps Prenatal 1 year At-risk Early Head Start/Head Start Prenatal-5 years Low-income Prenatal 2 years First time parents Nurse-Family Partnership Parents as Teachers Prenatal 5 years Project Link Pregnant and parenting substance using women Resource Mothers Prenatal 1 year Teen parents
PROGRAM CHARACTERISTICS Voluntary Free Long term and intensive service delivery Based on Best practice Program Specific Curriculum Extensive Professional Development/Training Community based Data driven
COMMON GOALS Family Functioning Maternal and Child Health Child Development and School Readiness Parent-Child Relationship
TYPES OF SERVICES Screening, Assessment and Planning child development maternal and child health perinatal depression intimate partner violence Referral to community resources Parent Education and Support teach mentor coach
KNOWLEDGE DOESNT CHANGE BEHAVIOR It s all about relationships
WHAT MAKES IT WORK? Home Visitors: Offered encouragement and hope Are caring and committed to their job Had good teaching skills Provided resources to meet family needs
VALUE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD HOME VISITING Improve parenting skills and the quality of the home environment Improve child behavior problems Improve intellectual development Enhance maternal life course (employment, postpartum depression) Reduce unintentional injuries Increase rates and duration of breastfeeding ---AAP Policy Statement, February 2, 2009
HOME VISITING AT A GLANCE Over 13,000 Virginia families are currently receiving home visiting services. Based on poverty data, more than 100,000 Virginia families could benefit from early childhood home visiting.
HOME VISITING AT A GLANCE Home visiting services are available in many communities, but the majority (80% of existing programs) are meeting less than 25% of need in those communities 2013 3% 0-25% met need 26-50% met need 51-75% met need 76-100% met need 4% 13% *Population served: number of families served by Virginia s home visiting programs 80% Population need: number of households with children ages
REFERRALS AND ACCESS WWW.HOMEVISITINGVA.COM
CENTRALIZED INTAKE Roanoke Valley Virginia Peninsula New River Valley Chesapeake Area
