Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
Address: PO Box 60630, New Orleans, Louisiana 70160 Project Director Name: Susannah Boudreaux, Contact Phone Number: 225-278-1877 Email Address: Susannah.boudreaux@la.gov Website Address: https://partnersforfamilyhealth.org/ Grant Program Funds Requested in the Application: $11,969,122 (Base 11,243,299/Match $725,893) Annotation: The Louisiana Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program aims to support at-risk families through evidence-based home visiting services. This program prioritizes early childhood development, maternal health, and family well-being by providing personalized home visits from trained professionals. By targeting families with young children facing socio-economic challenges, the program seeks to enhance parenting skills, promote child health and development, and ultimately strengthen family resilience. Problem: Louisiana has consistently ranked poorly on overall maternal and child health outcomes and social determinants of health as identified in the 2020 Needs Assessment and 2021 Risk and Reach Report. Purpose: The purposed of this project is to sustain and strengthen effective, evidence-based home visiting services via implementation of Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) and Parents as Teachers (PAT) in at-risk communities. Goal(s) and Objectives: Goal 1: LA MIECHV will sustain evidence-based home visiting and improve maternal, child and family health and well-being in Louisiana. ? Objective 1.1: For the duration of the project period, continue to implement Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) in 36 MIECHV-funded parishes across LDH Administrative Regions 2-9 identified as at-risk in the 2020 LA MIECHV Needs Assessment and 2021 Early Childhood Risk and Reach report. ? Objective 1.2: For the duration of the project period, continue to implement Parents as Teachers (PAT) in 34 MIECHV-funded parishes across LDH Administrative Regions 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 identified as at-risk in the 2020 LA MIECHV Needs Assessment 2021 Early Childhood Risk and Reach report. ? Objective 1.3: For the duration of this project period, provide infrastructure to support the effective implementation of evidence-based home visiting via continuation of contracts for key infrastructure staff supported through braided funding and for Centralized Intake Goal 2: LA MIECHV will strengthen the implementation of MIECHV evidence-based home visiting through prioritization of parent leadership and improved coordination with key early childhood system partners ? Objective 2.1: Engage parent leaders on each of the regional home visiting teams via implementation of activities as outlines in Stages 1-3 of the HV COIIN 2 ? Objective 2.2: Establish quarterly meetings with all 6 Healthy Louisiana Plans and initiate MOU discussions with United Healthcare, Humana, and Healthy Blue Goal 3: LA MIECHV will ensure equitable service delivery to all families enrolled in evidence-based home visiting through evaluation of data and current practices. • Objective 3:1: Evaluate completion of screenings by race, ethnicity, and/or language to identify underserved populations and establish a plan to ensure all families are screened and referred to services as needed. • Objective 3:2: Evaluate discharge data by race, ethnicity, and/or language to identify populations leaving home visiting early and establish a plan to support identified families in continuation of services. Approach: Evidence-based models: NFP and PAT. Communities served and Target population group(s): LA MIECHV prioritizes serving low-income families in 52 parishes identified as at-risk in 2020 Needs Assessment and 2021 Early Childhood Risk and Reach report. To be eligible for NFP or PAT services through LA MIECHV, families must also be eligible for Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, TANF, or SSI at enrollment. Additional subpopulations are represented in LA MIECHV’s client base, but current eligibility criteria does not specifically select for them. Proposed caseload of MIECHV family slots: FY 24: 1
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