Thursday, April 17, 2025
4/17/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Address: 1330 Lady Street, 310 Columbia, SC 29201 Project Officer Cathy Ramage, Director of Home Visiting Contact Number: 803/733-4027 (o); 803/447-7990 (C) Email Address: cramage@scchildren.org Website: www.scchildren.org Funds Requested: $9,415,973 PURPOSE: South Carolina’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (SCMIECHV) program seeks to sustain evidence-based home visiting in the state by concentrating on the areas of greatest need with strategic home visiting implementation through integration into primary healthcare and/or the medical homes. Target areas and populations include child maltreatment, maternal/infant health, school readiness, and families/children with special needs. SCMIECHV will address coordination and delivery of critical health, child development, early learning, child abuse and neglect prevention, and family support services through evidence-based home visiting and strengthened early childhood systems. GOALS And OBJECTIVES: Goal 1 – Strengthen capacity of 15 existing home visiting programs to provide quality home visiting services to at-risk communities through September 2025. Objective I: Increase capacity of service provision for contracted 15 Local Implementing Agencies (LIAs) to reach and maintain enrollment of families at 85 percent through September 2025. Objective II: Increase capacity and precision of 15 LIAs to effectively target and serve populations in at risk communities based on results of the 2020 Home Visiting Needs Assessment and using a health equity approach by September 2025. Goal 2 – Continued expansion of competencies of home visiting program staff working with families and special populations in contracted sites and partnering early childhood programs through September 2025. Objective I: Increase knowledge, skills, and abilities of home visiting workforce in working with vulnerable populations by providing eight (8) mandatory trainings and supplemental training opportunities by September 2025. Goal 3 – Advocate for sustainable evidence-based home visiting within the State through September 2025. Objective I: Translate results from stakeholders’ evaluations and produce collective data report for state legislators in the 2024 & 2025 legislative sessions for meaningful sustainability recommendations. Objective II: Convene 20 stakeholders knowledgeable of evidence-based home visiting through the SC Home Visiting Consortium through September 2025. Objective III: Assist in efforts to increase advocacy and education for home visiting programs through September 2025. Goal 4 – Support sustainable funding for South Carolina home visiting programs by identifying and requesting matching funds by September 2024. Objective I: Assess current and future opportunities for matching funds for subsequent program years by September 2024. Objective II: Complete a request to the state legislature for match dollars during the 2024 legislative session. METHODOLOGY: - Supported models include HFA, NFP, and PAT; - Proposal will reach 38 of 46 South Carolina Counties; - Total proposed caseload of family slots: FY 2024 = 1041; FY 2025 = 1206; (Current caseload is 1041). Key activities for appropriate linkages and referral networks: - Build/strengthen service provision, infrastructure strategies/implementation/workforce development through technical assistance, monitoring/training; collaboration/coordination; - maintain strong practice/policy/protocol standardization for program implementation; - maintain CQI strategies/peer-to-peer learning; - convening the HV Consortium to strengthen partnering efforts and collaboration; - formal MOUs with essential partners.
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