Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Mailing Address: 3601 C Street, Ste. 322, Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Project Director: Emily Urlacher Contact Numbers: 907-764-3446 Email: emily.urlacher@Alaska.gov Web site: http://www.hss.state.Alaska.us/dph/wcfh/ MIECHV Program: Base and Matching Grant Awards Grant Funds Requested: $2,573,315 Annotation: The State of Alaska MIECHV project provides evidence-based home visiting services to at-risk families and seeks to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, improve school readiness, increase economic self-sufficiency, better coordinate needed referrals to services for families, and decrease child maltreatment. There is one existing local implementing agency, the Providence Alaska Children’s Hospital (PACH). The State of Alaska also proposes to use match funds to expand to at least one new Parents as Teachers model local implementing agency during this project period. Problem: An estimated 4,952 at-risk families are eligible for MIECHV services across Alaska. Many areas of the state do not benefit from home visiting services in any way or are underserved given their at-risk population status. Within the seven identified high-risk communities, an estimated 3,661 families are in need/eligible for MIECHV home visiting services, and only an estimated 1,327 families (36%) within those areas received services during the most recent program fiscal year. Purpose: To use base and matching MIECHV funds under the MIECHV Program to improve maternal and child health, early childhood development, and family well-being of pregnant people and parents with children up to kindergarten entry — especially those living in communities identified as at risk for poor maternal and child health outcomes — by supporting the delivery of coordinated and comprehensive high-quality and voluntary early childhood home visiting services to eligible families in Alaska. Goals: The goals are to provide high-quality and evidence-based home visitation services to MIECHV eligible families in the proposed services areas, continue an evaluation process to collect additional data for program improvement and effectiveness, integrate home visiting into a comprehensive, high-quality system of services for the early childhood population, and strive for project sustainability. Objectives: 1. To continue to provide high-quality nurse home visiting services to at-risk, pregnant individuals and their children within the Municipality of Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna Borough. 2. Goal: By 9/29/2026, the Alaska MIECHV Program will implement at least one new Parents as Teacher LIA. 3. Continue the evaluation process of the Alaska MIECHV program to collect additional data to utilize for program improvement and effectiveness. 4. Alaska will continue to integrate home visiting into a comprehensive, high-quality system of services for the early childhood population. 5. Alaska will strive for sustainability of the MIECHV program, which is not dependent on federal funding and create advocacy for these services. Approach: The Alaska MIECHV Program proposes to use two evidence-based models: Parents as Teachers and Nurse-Family Partnership for all MIECHV Eligible families, meaning all WIC and Medicaid eligible families. Service areas include the Municipality of Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. A new service area is to be determined during the project period, based on a competitive proposal process, and identified community need, in alignment with the Alaska 2020 MIECHV Needs Assessment. The total service capacity of the current program is 200 families at any given time. There will be an additional 50 slots open with the expansion of a new MIECHV LIA.
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).