Maternal, infant and early childhood homevisiting grant program - annotation: pennsylvania department of human services office of child development and early learning (ocdel) home visitation strives…

Maternal, infant and early childhood homevisiting grant program - annotation: pennsylvania department of human services office of child development and early learning (ocdel) home visitation strives to provide high- quality, evidence-based home visitation services for at-risk families across the commonwealth. This will be accomplished by ensuring that a continued success rate of 100% of the lias deliver evidence-based home visiting services with fidelity on an on-going basis to strengthen and support families and promote maternal, infant, and early childhood health. Evidence-based home visiting models will be funded to offer services that are responsive and reflective of the identified needs of the communities in which they are located. Community efforts to design an infrastructure that joins early childhood and home visitation and explores sustainability and health equity within the community's system of service delivery will be supported. Problem: to reach high-risk families in need of evidence-based home visitation services. Purpose: to create a statewide system of high-quality, evidence-based home visitation services that will strengthen and support families and promote maternal, infant, and early childhood health, safety, and development. Goals and objectives: miechv goal: ocdel will ensure that a continued success rate of 100% of the lias deliver evidence-based home visiting services with fidelity on an on-going basis to strengthen and support families and promote maternal, infant, and early childhood health and safety by july 1, 2023 through new LIA grant agreements established for evidence-based home visiting services that are anticipated to begin on july 1ST, 2022. Miechv objectives: objective 1: request for information and request for application (RFA). The department with ocdel will craft a competitive family support request for application (RFA) and release the RFA by fall 2021 with new agreements anticipated to begin on july 1ST, 2022. Objective 2: memorandum of understanding (mous). By june 30, 2023, ocdel will ensure that 100% of all lias have established mous with early intervention (EI) and other local family support or home visiting programs. Objective 3: stakeholder relations. Ocdel will ensure that members of the family support stakeholders committee participate in at least 75% of the quarterly family support programs stakeholder committee meetings or provide feedback if unable to attend virtually or in-person by july 1, 2023. Ocdel will establish new membership by december 31ST, 2022. Objective 4: professional development (PD) and technical assistance (TA). After july 1, 2022, ocdel will continue to provide four (4) trainings each SFY (trainings in-person or online). Ocdel will also continue its collaboration with the pennsylvania coalition against domestic violence (pcadv) through june 30TH, 2023, to develop and release an additional IPV resources, palm card and screening tools, to better support family support staff in equitable IPV screening and conversational screening. Objective 5: model and LIA fidelity. By july 1, 2023, ocdel will work in continued coordination with ebhv model developers for all lias receiving miechv funding to ensure that all fidelity standards for each ebhv program model are met. Ocdel will connect with any new model developers for any newly funded ebhv models as a result of the programs awarded through the RFA selection process. Objective 6: enrollment. By july 1, 2023, ocdel will continue with established policies that all programs maintain at least the miechv standard of 85% enrollment. Objective 7: quality data. By july 1, 2023, ocdel will ensure that lias have at least 85% of performance measures completed in the family support data system within 90 days of the scheduled due date.