What is Home Visiting?
What is Home Visiting?
Home visiting connects expectant parents and families with young children to a trained, family support professional who provides customized coaching and guidance during pregnancy, postpartum and the early stages of a child’s development. Home visitors help parents understand their role as their child’s first, and most important, teacher. Home visitors help families realize their strengths, and unlock their child’s potential.
A prevention strategy used to support pregnant and parenting families to promote positive health, behavioral health, development, and school readiness outcomes, and to help prevent child abuse and neglect.
Home visitors coach parents in their role as their children’s first and most important teachers.
Delivered by trained professionals who provide customized coaching and guidance through pregnancy and early childhood. Home Visitors conduct regular screenings to help parents identify possible health, behavioral health, and developmental issues.
Home Visiting is Voluntary. Home visiting reaches families in their homes when and how they choose.
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A retrospective analysis found a 40% reduction in preterm birth rates among Virginia women who received home visiting versus a comparison group. An average savings of $30,000 per birth.
Feasibility Study on the Development of a Home Visiting Pay for Success Pilot Program, Virginia Department of Health, 2018