Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
South Dakota Department of Health 600 Capitol Ave., Pierre, SD 57501 Project Director: Carrie Churchill, RN 605-394-2495 Carrie.churchill@state.sd.us https://doh.sd.gov/programs/bright-start/ Total of grant funds requested: $2,033,254 ($1,307,361 base funding and $725,893 matching funds) Annotation: The South Dakota Home Visiting program seeks to improve pregnancy outcomes, child health and development, and early childhood systems coordination by implementing the Nurse Family Partnership and Parents as Teachers evidence-based home visiting models. Services are provided in the following identified at risk counties: Beadle, Bennett, Butte, Day, Fall River, Jackson, Lawrence, Marshall, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, and Roberts. In the FY 2024 grant year, the program plans to expand services to Hughes County and up to three additional counties yet to be determined. Goals: 1. Increase capacity of the South Dakota Home Visiting program to implement effective, evidence-based home visiting services to more eligible families. 2. Advance Early Childhood Comprehensive System Development in identified at-risk communities. 3. Create a data-driven system to improve the quality of home visiting services. Methodology: The South Dakota Home Visiting Program implements the Nurse Family Partnership model using Department of Health and subrecipient partner staff. Parents as Teachers services are delivered by one subrecipient Local Implementing Agency partner. The proposed caseload of MIECHV family slots for the project period is 266 in Year 1 and 302 in Year 2. Growth in proposed family slots will occur with expansion of Parents as Teachers into additional counties and inclusion of additional Nurse Family Partnership families into MIECHV funded services. Communities will be identified based on numbers of potentially eligible families, fit of home visiting with other early childhood initiatives, and community readiness for such services. The Department of Health works with state agency partners, nonprofit and social service agencies, and tribal entities to coordinate services for families. South Dakota Home Visiting is an active partner in Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems work. Home visiting staff build networks in local communities to maintain a base of referrals, program growth, and service coordination.
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