Project Title: Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program – Formula, Non-Competing Continuation Update, Fiscal Year 2022
Recipient Name: California Department of Public Health (CDPH)/ Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division (MCAH)/California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) Address: 1615 Capitol Avenue, MS 8304, Sacramento, CA 95899-7420
Project Director Name: Lissa Pressfield
Phone Number: (916) 650-0381 Email Address: Lissa.Pressfield@cdph.ca.gov
Website: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DMCAH/CHVP/Pages/Default.aspx
Purpose: 1) Pair at-risk new and expectant parents with nurses or paraprofessionals who provide assistance and education for healthy pregnancies/deliveries, coordinated in-home services to promote positive parenting, and assistance for families to independently raise their children; 2) Screen and link families to community-based services; and 3) Improve outcomes for families residing in at-risk communities.
Goals: 1) Provide leadership and structure for implementation of the CHVP to serve 1,884 families; 2) Integrate the CHVP into the statewide and local early childhood systems; 3) Comply with HRSA/MIECHV data collection and reporting requirements; and 4) Integrate a racial and health equity framework and best practice into all program and data aspects of CHVP. Objectives: CHVP will: 1.1) Effectively oversee 22 subrecipient agreements to ensure appropriate use of funds; 1.2) Provide programmatic oversight to subrecipients to ensure local home visiting programs are implemented in alignment with CHVP state and federal requirements, SOW objectives and model guidance; 1.3) Review and revise all MIECHV subrecipient monitoring tools to provide clear, consistent and responsive guidance and direction in the implementation of home visiting services; 1.4) Collaborate with federal, state, and local partners to implement Continuous Quality Improvement projects to support a culture of growth and excellence the implementation of home visiting; 1.5) Provide targeted, responsive technical assistance to all LIAs to support ongoing growth, sharing of best practices and lessons learned, and a robust implementation of home visiting services; 1.6) Create a workforce training plan to address training needs of local and state-level staff; 1.7) Comply with all HRSA MIECHV formula grant reporting requirements to ensure state and local home visiting services are implemented and overseen in accordance with federal guidance; 2.1) Collaborate with other state departments, local government agencies and non-profit organizations to build home visiting capacity and coordinate services to families; 2.2) Ensure every CHVP LIA is embedded in the local early childhood system and seeks input and feedback on program planning, implementation and evaluation from community partners, as appropriate; 3.1) Monitor and submit all information required for HRSA/MIECHV quarterly and annual performance reporting; and
4.1) Enhance efforts to serve families with cultural and linguistic humility by collaborating to develop a health equity plan.
Methodology: CHVP offers the Nurse Family Partnership and Healthy Families America home visiting models via its 22 LIAs. CHVP will continue to serve families in the 21 counties currently served based on the results of the approved 2020 Needs Assessment. The current caseload of MIECHV family slots and the proposed caseload for FFYs 2022-2024 is 1,884 families. State-level CHVP pursues early childhood systems coordination through a state-level collaborative while LIAs actively engage in community advisory boards and interagency agreements at the local level.