The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services, Bureau of Family Healthy and Nursing Services (DPHSS-BFHNS) is the lead agency responsible for the administration and implementation of Guam's Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, also known as Project Bisita I Familia (in the Chamoru language meaning, "to visit the family"). Project Bisita I Familia (PBIF) is an evidence-based home visiting service for pregnant women and families with young children at high-risk for poor outcomes. The voluntary program is intended to support the delivery of coordinated and comprehensive high-quality early childhood home visiting services to eligible families.
The program goals and objectives are as follows:
Goal 1: Project Bisita I Familia will provide high-quality, voluntary, evidence-based home visiting services to families in communities identified to be high risk.
Objective 1: By September 30, 2023, 105 families in high-risk communities identified by the Updated 2020 MIECHV Needs Assessment will receive high-quality voluntary, evidence-based home visiting services.
Goal 2: Strengthen collaborative efforts with early childhood and other child and family-serving agencies.
Objective 1: By September 30, 2023, 90% of Project Bisita staff will attend four staff training and four parent workshops annually with other early childhood programs.
Goal 3: Enhance staffing and administrative structures to develop high-quality ongoing home visiting program staff training.
Objective 1: By September 30, 2023, Project Bisita will have seven home visitors certified in the HFA home-visiting model.
Goal 4: Expand the database system to improve the ability of Project Bisita to meet the data collection and reporting requirements.
Objective 1: By September 30, 2023, Project Bisita's data system will be enhanced and refined every six months to meet the MIECHV federal grant and HFA evidence-based model requirements.