Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Project Title: Family Foundations Home Visiting Program Applicant Name: Wisconsin Department of Children and Families Mailing Address: 201 West Washington Avenue, Madison, WI 53703 Project Director Name: Terri Enters, Home Visiting Coordinator Phone: 608-422-6969 Email: terri2.enters@wisconsin.gov Website: https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/cwportal/homevisiting Annotation: Wisconsin’s Family Foundations Home Visiting (FFHV) Program is led by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and supported by partner agencies, the Department of Health Services (DHS), the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board (CANPB), and the Office of Children’s Mental Health (OCMH). The FFHV Program provides high quality, evidence-based home visiting services with the goals of improving maternal and child health and school readiness and reducing child abuse and neglect. Purpose: Building on previous MIECHV funds and available state General Purpose Revenue (GPR) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) dollars, the FY2023 MIECHV grant of $9,876,553 will be used to continue to support the FFHV Program to provide high quality, evidence-based home visiting services to high-need families at risk for poor child and family outcomes. The additional funding will be utilized to expand services to populations experiencing higher disparities and stabilizing the current home visiting workforce. Goals for the FY2023 MIECHV grant include: 1) Build on the successful implementation of high quality, evidence-based home visiting in at-risk communities, including expanding home visiting capacity to serve the maximum number of families. 2) Ensure home visiting programs and staff statewide receive professional development opportunities that promote best practice and effective service delivery, support implementation, and bring about meaningful practice change with particular focus on traditionally marginalized and underserved people. 3) Create a culture of quality and meaningful engagement of family voice in home visiting, using benchmark reporting, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and evaluation to inform how home visiting services are delivered in Wisconsin. 4) Embed evidence-based home visiting in well-coordinated and robust statewide and local early childhood system. 5) Partner with key agencies to support a coordinated linkage and referral network and continuum of early childhood and perinatal services for eligible families in at-risk communities. Methodology: FY2023 MIECHV grant funds will support services to high-need families in 38 counties and 6 tribes through 1,918 family slots in FY2023 and 1,918 family slots in FY2024. Services will be provided using four evidence-based models: Healthy Families America, Parents as Teachers, Early Head Start-Home Based, and Nurse-Family Partnership. DCF works closely with home visiting programs and partner agencies, such as the Birth to Three Program, Title V, and WIC, to support eligible families with appropriate linkages and referrals to community resources.
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).