Home Visiting in Virginia

 

Home Visiting in Virginia

Virginia’s Plan for Home Visiting addresses the Commonwealth’s key priorities for pregnant persons and families with young children and sets a bold strategic direction for growing services to achieve collective impact. Informed by the Early Impact Virginia statewide home visiting needs assessment, and with input from more than 200 stakeholders at the local and state levels, this Strategic Plan provides the context and direction necessary to fully operationalize the Plan for Home Visiting, which was adopted in 2019.

The Plan for Home Visiting was developed in collaboration with members of the Alliance for Early Childhood Home Visiting. Alliance members represent Virginia’s eight statewide home visiting models, as well as other early childhood partners from across the Commonwealth.

Last year, Virginia’s 572 dedicated professionals served more than 6,700 families. To meet the diverse needs of families and communities throughout the Commonwealth, Virginia is home to eight models of home visiting:

VA Enrollment & Service Periods

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Find Home Visiting in Your Area

We ensure that all pregnant and parenting families have access to high-quality, early childhood home visiting through programs that best match their needs. See which home visiting programs are available in your community.

How Virginia Delivers Services

A community-based service, early childhood home visiting programs currently serve ninety-two (92%) of Virginia localities. A reflection of unique public-private partnership, home visiting services are administered through local non-profit organizations, health systems and public agencies.

Virginia is home to 71 local early childhood home visiting programs serving 120 communities.

Home Visiting is proven to strengthen families & help children grow up healthy & ready to learn. Learn how it’s making an impact in our community.

Early Impact Virginia is dedicated to ensuring ALL pregnant and parenting families have access to high-quality, early childhood home visiting, HOW and WHEN they choose.

We bring together the Commonwealth’s home visiting and early childhood leaders to develop the policies and conditions for growth and success. 

#HomeVisitingWorks

 If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much more can we convey through video? These videos express the impact of home visiting on the families and the communities they serve.

We celebrate home visiting by highlighting professionals and programs that go above and beyond. These innovators have been honored for their contributions to Expanding Horizons - of families, communities, and the field of home visiting overall.

Celebrating Home Visiting in South Hampton Roads (2019)

Outstanding Home Visiting Program: Healthy Families Central Virginia at HumanKind (2019)

Outstanding Home Visitor: Tamara Slife, CHIP of New River Valley (2019)

PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS

Outstanding Home Visitor:  Jackie Funkhouser, Healthy Families Shenandoah County (2016)

Outstanding Home Visiting Program: Northern Virginia Family Services (2016)

Champion for Home Visiting: Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. (2016)