Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - Rhode Island Department of Health 3 Capitol Hill, Room 302 Providence, RI 02908 Sara Remington sara.remington@health.ri.gov 401-222-5946 (p) 401-222-1442 (f) www.health.ri.gov $8,559,326 Annotation: The Rhode Island Department of Health’s Family Visiting Program and Local Implementing Agencies will engage and retain pregnant people and families with young children in high-quality, voluntary, family visiting services. Family Visiting programs will work alongside families to improve health and developmental outcomes for high-needs families. The Family Visiting Program will use data and family voice to guide decision making on critical aspects on program implementation. The Family Visiting Program will provide ongoing professional development to the family visiting workforce to address the complex needs of families and staff wellbeing. Problem: Families in high-needs communities identified in RI’s 2020 Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Needs Assessment have a greater risk for poor health and developmental outcomes. Purpose: To provide a coordinated, high-quality set of voluntary family visiting services to eligible RI families in high-need communities and priority populations. Goals and Objectives: Goal 1: The Family Visiting Program (FVP) will implement high quality programs in high need communities and priority populations in surrounding communities. Objective 1: The FVP will implement the team’s updated plan and tools for sub-monitoring of Local Implementing Agencies (LIAs) and continue to sub-monitor LIA’s Medicaid billing Objective 2: The updated FV Strategic Plan will be implemented. Goal 2: Implement a family visiting workforce professional development plan that results in increased staff retention, job satisfaction and increased family engagement. Objective 1: Regularly survey the workforce to understand why family visitors leave positions. Goal 3: Use current MIECHV Demonstration of Improvement data to select CQI initiatives and professional development offerings. Objective 1: Choose CQI projects that respond to RI’s Performance Measures and family needs Objective 2: Sustain professional development offerings to support improvement in MIECHV Performance Measures Goal 4: Implement a health equity workgroup for the family visiting workforce. Objective 1: Establish a quarterly meeting with LIAs to address health equity issues families are experiencing. Approach: Healthy Families America, Nurse-Family Partnership and Parents as Teachers will be provided in Central Falls, Cranston, Lincoln, Newport, North Providence, Pawtucket, Providence, Warwick, West Warwick, Woonsocket and Washington County, serving 1,494 families.
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).