Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Project Address: 1500 Jefferson Street SE, Olympia, WA 98501Project Director: Judy King Contact Phone #:360.725.2841Contact Phone #:360.725.2841 Email Address: JUDY.KING@DCYF.WA.GOV Base Funds: $11,261,560 Matching Funds: $725,893ANNOTATION: Washington continues building and increasing a comprehensive state-wide home visiting (HV) system that builds a bridge between health and the early learning systems available in the state. A continued focus on sustaining and strengthening the quality of programming, ensuring accountable integration of our programs at every level, and creating a sustainable program that promotes maternal, infant and early childhood health, safety and development and strong parent-child relationships remains at the forefront of our work. Keeping with this focus over many grant periods allows Washington to increase the breadth and depth of services. PROBLEM: Decades of research have proven that long term, relationship-based home visiting services are an effective and cost-efficient approach to improve child and family outcomes in health development and promote school readiness. However, due to limited funding, we only reach a small fraction of those in need in our state. To counter this, we use the MIECHV home visiting needs assessments to pinpoint the highest needs areas and continue to mold a comprehensive early learning approach that expands home visiting. PURPOSE: Washington State has continued to embed home visiting into our statewide early learning system and develop a strong home visiting portfolio for the highest risk families. Through this grant we continue this impact by sustaining and strengthening the existing programs. Goals and Objectives: The goals and objectives of the Washington home visiting system have continued to reflect the strong work of our state more than 10 years. These foundational systems goals continue to guide home visiting systems planning and development. Goal 1 - Governance and Planning: Integrate the home visiting system as part of the broader early learning planning and governance structure; encourage collaboration at the state and local levels and engage and reflect the communities served. Goal 2 - Finance and Sustainability: Build finance strategies and generate resources to sustain and grow the home visiting system in Washington state. Goal 3 - Service Delivery and Access: Ensure high-quality, culturally competent home visiting services that meet the needs of local communities are available and accessible to at-risk families across the state. Goal 4 - Quality and Accountability: Ensure high-quality services and effective implementation of home visiting models and programs. Goal 5 - Public Engagement: Build community and public will for a home visiting system that provides high-quality services to families in local communities. APPROACH: The proposed funds will support communities in 16 at risk areas statewide. FFY24 formula grant funds will support two evidence-based models: Nurse-Family Partnerships and Parents as Teachers. Washington will fund 1,309 family slots through the FFY2024 grant period. Populations served include families in poverty, diverse racial/ethnic populations, young mothers, families involved with child welfare, and military families. Washington’s Implementation Hub will provide training, technical assistance and coaching for evidence-based models. At the state level, home visiting continues to partner with early care and education, health and human services agencies to identify system gaps that could be strengthened in order to better serve families. We continue our work outlined in Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) to better serve families that are accessing services from multiple state programs to ensure seamless access to voluntary programs. At the regional and local levels, we will continue to provide technical assistance on initiating and strengthening referrals to and from a variety of other local agencies.
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).