Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - PROJECT ABSTRACT Project Title: Maternal Infant Early Child Home Visiting Program Applicant Name: Vermont Department of Health Mailing Address: VT Department of Health, 280 State Drive, Waterbury VT 05671-8360 Project Director: Ilisa Stalberg, Director, Division of Family and Child Health Contact Phone Numbers: #(802) 343-8125, Fax# (802)-863-7229. Email Address: Ilisa.Stalberg@vermont.gov Website: Strong Families Vermont Funds Requested: base grant and matching funds. Purpose: The purpose of this project is to deliver a coordinated, research-based, voluntary early childhood home visiting program to eligible families who are pregnant or caregivers of infants within all 14 Vermont counties represented by six regions within Vermont’s Children’s Integrated Service (CIS) system. Vermont MIECHV funds will support the Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) model. Program goals are to improve transition to parenting by supporting parents through pregnancy, improve maternal health and wellbeing by helping parents care for themselves. Furthermore, goals include improving child health and development by helping parents to interact with their children in developmentally supportive ways, develop and promote parents’ aspirations for themselves and children, and improving family and social relationships and within the family and with other families and services. Matching funds will be used to support the costs of the current program in Vermont. Goals/Objectives: Goals include: 1) Improve pregnancy outcomes; promote healthy infant and toddler growth and development; and foster healthy, self-sufficient families amongst at-risk populations in all Vermont counties. Goal 2: By September 29, 2027, Vermont will host a comprehensive and flexible data management system to track program progress, outcomes, and ensure continuous quality improvement (CQI) across project goals and objectives. Goal 3: Build a state system to assure stability and sustainability of research-based home visiting. Goal 4: By September 29, 2027, Vermont MIECHV Team will facilitate and monitor core model training and continuous MECSH program management with MECSH Consultants in support of optimal implementation. Goal 5: By September 29, 2027, assess and address the community health needs that impact families served and coordinate strategies to reach families at greatest risk of adverse health outcomes. Approach: Caseload: Projected Caseload of family slots: FY25 is 405 families, and FY26 is 405 families. All of Vermont’s fourteen counites are to be served. Target populations are families at risk of poor maternal or child health or developmental outcomes and priority populations outlined by statutory authority, including those who are at risk for health disparities. Vermont will have 6 LIAs. Vermont is applying for matching funds. The matching funds will allow Vermont to draw more federal award support previously unmet program costs of our existing program such as awardee program personnel and to sustain service delivery for one LIA which had expanded with ARPA dollars previously. The source of match funds are in –kind from LIAs.
