Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - 11 SHS Augusta ME 04333-0011 Maryann Harakall 207-557-2470 © 207-287-4743 (f) Maryann.harakall@maine.gov Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant Annotation: This project will provide the Parents as Teachers evidenced-based program to any family in Maine who accepts the services. There will be eleven local implementing agencies statewide to provide services to families and to connect families to additional services when needed. The overall goal is to improve maternal, infant, child and family physical and relational health and wellbeing for families in Maine. To achieve this, Maine’s MIECHV Program will continue to recruit families to participate, actively engage in continuous quality improvement projects and implement health equity activities. Problem: Maine is a rural state and all communities within the state are at risk of having families who are at risk for poor maternal and child health outcomes. Purpose: Maine’s MIECHV Program provides effective delivery and ongoing improvement of Maine’s statewide home visiting services with fidelity to the Parents as Teachers (PAT) evidence-based model, as part of a coordinated statewide early childhood system. The goal of this project is to implement a comprehensive and inclusive statewide system to improve the physical and relational health and well-being of Maine’s most vulnerable children and families. Goals and Objectives: Goal 1. Improve maternal, infant, child and family physical and relational health and wellbeing for participating families. Objective 1.a. Engage eligible families with PAT evidence-based home visiting services by maintaining Maine Families enrollment levels as a percentage of point-in-time capacity. Objective 1.b. Retain vulnerable families with PAT by maintaining or increasing retention of eligible families. Objective 1.c. Explore opportunities for program participants to authentically engage in advisory and collaborative roles to create more inclusive and equitable systems. Goal 2. Maintain and continuously improve statewide delivery of evidence-based PAT services by Maine Families with fidelity and high quality. Objective 2.a. Support continued fidelity and quality of PAT delivery by maintaining and strengthening state-level systems of supports for LIAs including performance-based contracting, oversight, trainings, policies, data systems, technical assistance, continuous quality improvement (CQI) monitoring, supported through state-level CQI process. Objective 2.b. Support LIA’s ability to maintain maximum staffing capacity by exploring additional system-wide strategies and monitoring the impact of new hiring qualifications for Maine Families staff. Goal 3. Develop and improve health equity practices around diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Objective 3.a. Maintain a staff demographic dataset to compare with participant demographic data and monitor for staff diversification within the system. Objective 3.b. Maintain statewide Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility workgroup. Objective 3.c. Identify funding support to identify health disparities in MIECHV performance measure data and family engagement. Approach: Parents as Teachers All Maine Communities will be served with this grant. The proposed caseload for the FY 2024 award period, is 1,202 for each year of the performance period.
