Home Visitation Initiative Funded by
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What is the Home Visitation Initiative?
Targeted and comprehensive Home Visitation pilot program combining the elements of:
- newborn screening
- professional in-home assessment
- ongoing home visitation
For the purpose of providing parenting education and resource referrals as needed (addressing abuse issues with prevention).
Who is Eligible?
- Those moms/babies who score 71 or higher on the Bridges tool administered in the hospital (following birth of baby) are offered an In-Home Assessment to take place in the weeks that follow their release from the hospital. If mom consents….
- The Kempe Assessment tool is administered in the family home by a Family Assessment Specialist. If the score is 25 or higher this mom/baby/family has qualified for on-going and regularly scheduled Home Visitations beginning the following week and lasting until the baby turns 5 years old. These visits are made by trained Family Support Specialists.
What Services are Provided to the Client?
Services offered / provided include:
- parenting education
- development of Family Care Plan
- group therapy
- establishing baseline comparisons to measure positive change over period of time
- wide variety of resource referrals as appropriate provided by collaborative agencies intent on preventing child abuse by focusing on the education of new parents
Who are the People Served?
The people served by this pilot program include:
- newborns and new mom/families identified as ‘high risk’ using selected assessment tools
- 90% of the population served is primarily Hispanics in service industries and agriculture / field workers in the east Coachella Valley
- The most prevalent needs encountered in this particular population are the most basic needs… food, shelter, clothes. Transportation is the next most prevalent need.
What is the Cost to the Client?
Nothing.
