Home Visiting
WHAT HOME VISITING IS...
Home visiting provides family support and coaching through planned, regular visits with a trained professional based on a family's need.
WHAT HOME VISITING IS...
• Home visiting IS strengths based - A service approach that meets families where they are at and together, creating a bridge to cross a "gap" in the family's life.
• Home visiting IS empowering - Through support and coaching, planned regular visits with a trained professional are based on a family's needs and schedules.
• Home visiting IS voluntary - Parents are their child's first teacher, therefore parents are experts on their family. Participation is decided by the parent.
• Home visiting IS customized - With a variety of program model delivery methods, home visiting programs offer the opportunity to receive the right fit.
• Home visiting IS empowering - Through support and coaching, planned regular visits with a trained professional are based on a family's needs and schedules.
• Home visiting IS voluntary - Parents are their child's first teacher, therefore parents are experts on their family. Participation is decided by the parent.
• Home visiting IS customized - With a variety of program model delivery methods, home visiting programs offer the opportunity to receive the right fit.
home visitation focus areas
Home visiting focuses on linking pregnant women with prenatal care, promoting strong parent-child attachment, and coaching parents on learning activities that foster their child's development and supporting parents' role as their child's first and most important teacher.
Home visitors also conduct regular screenings to help parents identify possible health and developmental issues which coincide with school readiness. Other focus areas include family economic self-sufficiency and community resources and support
current smart start-funded programs
These programs provide a range of home-based services to expectant or new parents. Home visitors may be professionals such as nurses or social workers or they may be trained outreach workers. Services vary by program and may include providing prenatal support, educating parents about child development, promoting positive parenting practices, encouraging and supporting parents; ensuring families have a medical provider, and connecting parents with services for their children and themselves.
PROGRAMS LOCAL TO MECKLENBURG COUNTY
EARLY HEAD START
CHILD FIRST
P.A.T. - PARENTS AS TEACHERS
NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
PARENT CHILD +
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Meck family connect
Empowering Families, Bridging Resources
Through outreach with families and relationship building with community partners, Coordinated Intake focuses on the identification and recruitment of families who would most benefit from home visiting services.
