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5/9/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Project Abstract Project Title Kansas Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Applicant Kansas Department of Health and Environment Address 1000 SW Jackson, Suite 220, Topeka, KS., 66612 Project Director Amy Dean-Campmire, Interim Project Director Contact number and email address: 785-296-2165, amy.deancampmire@ks.gov Website https://Kshomevisiting.org Total HRSA request $5,936,917 (base + match) Annotation: Kansas desires to expand access to evidence-based home visiting in targeted at-risk communities by leveraging HRSA base and match funds. Kansas will also increase workforce support by implementing new strategies with the intent to recruit and retain home visitors. Kansas will implement a health and safety fund to assist MIECHV families with concrete supports. Lastly, Kansas will focus on improving the quality of the administration. Problem: Kansas is primarily a rural state where access to resources, including home visiting, is limited because of geography. Purpose: Expand and strengthen Kansas MIECHV. Goals and Objectives: 1) Increase access to evidence-based home visiting. 2) Increase quality of evidence-based home visiting. 3) Improve capacity of future expansion communities to provide MIECHV. 4) Implement a series of workforce supports. 5) Improve administrative and infrastructure support for MIECHV. 6) Strengthen the Kansas early childhood system. Objectives include: 1.1. Eight additional communities and 100 additional families in Kansas will have access to evidence-based home visiting, 1.2. Create an inventory of the demographics of MIECHV families served compared to the general population in the community. Create a plan for improvement if the inventory illustrates that specific populations (race, ethnicity, disability, etc.) are not being reached in a community, 2.1. Implement a health and safety fund for home visitors to support family's achievements of MIECHV benchmarks, 2.2. Move DAISEY data collection to occur within 3 working days of a home visit. This will improve the quality and usefulness of reports to reflect “real time” data, 2.3. CQI leads currently determine the focus area in consultation with KDHE and KU DAISEY. This will be changed to allowing the LIAs to choose the focus area in the next CQI plan, 3.1. Improve the speed of implementation by improving readiness prior to implementation. Communities that are deemed ready the readiness assessment will reach full capacity within one year of designation and funding, 4.1. Demonstrate a 5% home visitor retention improvement. One year retention will be compared from 06/30/24 to 06/30/25. Newly hired home visitors for expansion caseloads will not be included, 5.1 Accuracy and timeliness of administrative supports with LIAs will improve, 6.1. Identify opportunities for cross system collaboration Approach: Supported models include Early Head Start, Healthy Families America and Parents as Teachers. Communities to be served include Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette, Linn, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson, and Wyandotte. Planned total capacity is 556 for each year in the period of availability of 9/30/24 to 9/29/26.
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