Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Annotation: Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) Home Visitation strives to provide high-quality, evidence-based home visitation services for at-risk families across the Commonwealth. This will be accomplished by ensuring a continued success rate of 100% of the Local Implementing Agencies (LIAs) deliver Evidence-Based Home Visiting (EBHV) services with fidelity on an on-going basis to strengthen and support families and promote maternal, infant, and early childhood health. EBHV models will be funded to offer services that are responsive and reflective of the identified needs of the communities in which they are located. Community efforts to design an infrastructure that joins early childhood and home visitation and explores sustainability and health equity within the community’s system of service delivery will be supported. Problem: Reaching high-need families in need of evidence-based home visitation services. Purpose: To sustain and grow a statewide system of high-quality, evidence-based home visitation services that will strengthen and support families and promote maternal, infant, and early childhood health, safety, and development. Goals and Objectives: MIECHV Goal: OCDEL will ensure that a continued success rate of 100% of the LIAs deliver EBHV services with fidelity to strengthen and support families and promote maternal, infant, and early childhood health and safety through the end of the current grant agreement contracts, which are currently 3-year contracts with two additional optional one-year renewals. These new grant agreement contracts began on July 1, 2022, and if extended for all five years will end on June 30, 2027. MIECHV Objectives: Objective 1: Request for Application (RFA). The Department, with OCDEL, will craft a new competitive Family Support Request for Application (RFA) and release the RFA by no later than end of Calendar Year 2026, with new agreements anticipated to begin on July 1, 2027. The competitive application includes both state and federal funds. Objective 2: Stakeholder Relations and Leadership. OCDEL will ensure that all LIAs participate in at least 75% of the offered Family Support Leadership Meetings. LIAs will be able to provide feedback if unable to attend virtually or in-person through the end of the current grant agreements June 30, 2025, with extensions optional until June 30, 2027. Objective 3: Professional Development (PD) and Technical Assistance (TA). After July 1, 2022, through September 29, 2026, OCDEL will continue to provide up to four (4) trainings, community of practices, or roundtable events each SFY (in-person or virtual). Objective 4: Model and LIA Fidelity. After July 1, 2024, through September 29, 2026, OCDEL will work in continued coordination with EBHV model developers for all LIAs receiving MIECHV funding to ensure that all fidelity standards for each EBHV program model are met. OCDEL will connect with any new model developers necessary for LIAs awarded through the increased MIECHV funds. Objective 5: Enrollment. After July 1, 2024, through September 29, 2026, OCDEL will continue with established policies that all programs maintain at least the MIECHV standard of 85% enrollment. Objective 6: Quality Data. After July 1, 2024, through September 29, 2026, OCDEL will ensure that LIAs have at least 85% of Performance Measures completed in the Family Support Data System within 90 days of the scheduled due date. Approach: EBHV Models Supported (Six EBHV Models) supported by MIECHV Funds: Child First, Early Head Start, Family Check-Up for Children, Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents as Teachers, and SafeCare Augmented Communities (27 Counties) Served by MIECHV Funds: Allegheny, Beaver, Blair, Bucks, Cameron, Carbon, Clarion, Clearfield, Columbia, Crawford, Erie, Fayette, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Perry, Ph
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).