Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Project Abstract Summary A. Purpose The purpose of NHV is to enrich the lives of enrolled families and improve academic, economic, health, and outcomes for families living in high need counties, as determined by the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant and Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Needs Assessment. Home visiting has the opportunity to change the life course of children and their caregivers by providing education, service referral, timely health information, injury and maltreatment prevention, and literacy support. B. Goals and Objectives Continue to build a statewide infrastructure to increase support for home visitors and agencies administering home visiting services. Ensure the provision of high-quality home visiting services to eligible families by NHV providing further education to implementing agencies. NHV will continue to make progress in improving coordination and referrals of underserved families to community resources. NHV will incorporate Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) principles in the administration of the state level home visiting program. NHV will assist implementing agencies in achieving improvement in the MIECHV benchmark areas through process improvement. NHV will collect and analyze demographic data (ethnicity, race, gender identity, marital status, geography, income, and insurance coverage) from families served to identify and adapt programming to mitigate disparities in health equity. C. Methodology i. Models utilized in Nevada include Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), Early Head Start Home Based Option (EHS), Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), and Parents as Teachers (PAT). ii. Nevada Home Visiting’s Local Implementing Agencies (LIAs) serve families in the following communities with identified risk-factors in the 2020 Needs Assessment: Carson City, Douglas, Washoe, Lyon, Storey, Mineral, Nye, and Clark counties. iii. The proposed caseload for each period of performance (9/30/23-9/29/24 and 9/30/24-9/29/25) is 388. iv. The current caseload capacity of MIECHV family slots is 255, with 256 actual families being served. v. Linkages and referrals to address intimate partner violence (IPV), developmental delays, tobacco use, depression and substance abuse include providing an online resource referral system, supporting agencies’ primary contact with key support service providers, development of local Memoranda of Understanding, and providing quality programming to support family engagement in school-readiness activities.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).