Sentences with phrase «for home visiting»

Michigan's support for home visiting is especially critical, given that the number of confirmed victims of child abuse and neglect in the state rose 16 percent between 2000 and 2008, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count Data Book 2009, a profile of the status of children on a national and state - by - state basis.

Walorski's office says the federal funding for the Home Visiting Program is up for reauthorization this Fall.

Despite significant federal expansion for home visiting programs through the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), state - funded home visitation programs have not increased even though costs and demand are increasing.

Further economic analysis, drawing on 15 - year outcome data (Olds et al., 1997) suggested that the economic case for home visiting for all women was much stronger, given the impacts it had in terms of reducing abuse, violence, the need for social welfare benefits and improved employment prospects (Karoly et al., 1998, 2005).

The size and scope of the study provide a wonderful opportunity for home visiting programs to contribute information to the national debate about policies and practices designed to improve the well - being of at - risk families and children.

These results have led to broad and bipartisan support for home visiting programs.

This year, the largest federal funding source for home visiting programs — the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting, or MIECHV, program — was able to serve only about 115,000 parents and children, a small fraction of the children and families who live in poverty in the United States.

So the big question is whether the Senate will endorse the state match plan, or take the House Democrats» view that state matches are more risk than reward for home visiting.

Learn more about how scientific rigor is defined by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visting Program (MIECHV) program: Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation: Evaluation Technical Assistance Brief (PDF, 267 KB)

But now, funding for home visiting — Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visitation grants (MIECHV)-- is about to run out, and Congress's plan to renew it would come at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people who depend on Social Security.

Davis criticized the effectiveness standards as «unrealistic outcome standards» that constitute «failure by design for home visiting.»

For some home visiting programs, participants must meet eligibility requirements.

Support for home visiting programs is grounded in research that has found regular postpartum home visits can improve the health of both mothers and their babies, prevent child abuse and neglect, support positive parenting and promote healthy child development and school readiness.

As part of this effort, ICAAP has developed a separate form for medical homes to use when formally referring a patient / family for home visiting services (see Resources for Medical Homes).

Currently, Congress is considering the reauthorization of a critical funding source for home visiting, the Maternal Infant Early Child Home Visiting (MIECHV) program.

The second webinar demonstrates how Facebook and Twitter are excellent platforms for garnering support for home visiting programs and for early childhood education issues.

When the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program was established, the Rhode Island Department of Health was able to capitalize on the initial collaborative, cross-agency work to dramatically expand evidence - based home visiting programs in the state (adding Healthy Families America and Parents as Teachers) and build strong cross-agency referral, service coordination, and continuous quality improvement systems for home visiting.

This webinar highlighted strategies for building comprehensive, statewide professional development systems for the home visiting workforce.

This session covered successful state efforts on centralizing intake, standardizing policies and procedures, identifying core indicators and performance measures and training for home visiting professionals.

Nineteen of the 29 broad - based programs were able to account for $ 52 million used by communities for home visiting; 10 programs were unable to identify their broad - based initiatives» home visiting expenditures.

In addition to passing this important policy, the state increased funding for home visiting by $ 7.9 million.

The Minnesota Department of Health created a reflective practice pilot for home visiting to meet that need.

State general funds were the largest source of support for home visiting programs in fiscal year 2009 - 2010

This webinar focused on providing concrete strategies and examples that states can implement to effectively leverage Medicaid dollars for home visiting programs.

Since 2011, Illinois has also received federal funding for home visiting through the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) grant.

Families who are eligible for home visiting services and the study will be randomly assigned to one of two groups:

The families who are not selected for home visiting will form a comparison group and may be referred to other services in the community.

Each grantee acknowledges the tremendous value that MIECHV adds to infrastructure for home visiting services.

Burkhardt also collaborates on an evaluation of the Fussy Baby Network ® Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) Advanced Training for home visiting staff.

It creates a single point of contact (it may be a community - based organization or a toll - free phone number) through which screening and referrals for home visiting occurs.

Provide support for home visiting staff experiencing second trauma, stress, and burnout related to the intensity of working with struggling, high - need families.

Each site gathered retrospective participant - level data for home visiting program participants during a 12 - month period.

«As the training provider for the Healthy Families Massachusetts statewide system, we are using the Achieve OnDemand courses to enhance our training modalities for home visiting staff and provide them high quality ongoing professional growth and development opportunities in a flexible, online format.»

In four years, HVSA increased funding for home visiting services and grew the number of home visiting slots from 100 to over 2,000, while also expanding counties served from four to 22.

At our Congressional Champions Reception, leaders of Healthy Families America and Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) presented awards to two senators and two representatives who have taken the fight for home visiting to heart.

HomVEE provides an assessment of the evidence of effectiveness for home visiting program models that target families with pregnant women and children from birth to kindergarten entry (i.e., up through age 5).

The vision that core training for home visiting professionals is not enough.

Gov. Susana Martinez recently vetoed a $ 500,000 appropriation through Medicaid that would have leveraged an additional $ 1.1 million in federal matching funds for home visiting, according to LFC.

In June 2015, Washington passed a two - year state budget that included a $ 6.18 million increase for home visiting.

Trained Coordinated Intake workers serve as a hub for home visiting, assessing families» needs, referring them to an appropriate home visiting program, and tracking what happens to the referrals.

HHS should complete and follow up on the Home Visiting Career Trajectories Project, which is focused on how to build career pathways for home visiting professionals.

Lessons learned from the Central Little Rock pilot were used to develop a toolkit in 2015 to assist other communities interested in implementing a coordinated intake process for home visiting.

The TEI will engage in activities that support tribal home visiting grantees in the identification and development of effective practices and systems for integrated services for home visiting in tribal communities.

These efforts ultimately led to the creation of the Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) in 2010 in legislation, a public - private partnership between the Washington State Department of Early Learning (DEL) and Thrive Washington (Thrive), a statewide nonprofit organization that matches public dollars with private funding to invest in a portfolio of evidence - based and promising practices for home visiting programs.

To find a home visiting program in your community, click below for an interactive map or to see the listing of specific communities that offer coordinated intake for home visiting services.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should work with states to innovate and support promising program models that add to the evidence base for home visiting interventions.

The law requires that all of Michigan's funding for home visiting go to support evidence - based or promising programs, ensuring the state will receive solid returns on investment for taxpayers and strong results for participating families.

Visit the Achieve OnDemand national portal and take advantage of our comprehensive offering of self - paced trainings and webinars made just for home visiting professionals.

'' [The] LSP is a valuable tool for home visiting programs....

Coordinated Intake (CI) is a collaborative process that provides families with a single point of entry for home visiting programs within a neighborhood, community, city, town, suburb, or county.