Maternal, infant and early childhood homevisiting grant program

The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $17.674 million to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services on September 30, 2025, under the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant program (CFDA 93.870) to sustain and grow a statewide system of evidence-based home visitation services strengthening families and promoting maternal, infant, and early childhood health, safety, and development. Performance runs through September 29, 2027, across Pennsylvania.

The recipient operates six evidence-based home visiting models implemented by twenty-four local implementing agencies across twenty-nine counties. The award funds delivery of home visiting services responsive to identified community needs, professional development and technical assistance for local agencies, updated family support leadership meetings with at least 75 percent local agency participation, and a competitive Request for Application process to be issued by year-end 2026 for new service agreements beginning July 1, 2027. Current grant agreements, which began July 1, 2022, run three years with two optional one-year renewals through June 30, 2027.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services passes funding to twenty-six sub-recipients delivering home visiting and family support services: Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11, Public Health Management Corp, Child's Place Pa, Allegheny County Executive Office, Erie Family Center, UPMC Home Healthcare of Central Pennsylvania, Summit Early Learning Inc., Lycoming-Clinton Counties Commission For Community Action Inc., Sharon City School District, The Guidance Center, Community Prevention Partnership, Geisinger Clinic, Community Connections For Children Inc., Lehigh Valley Hospital–Pocono, Family Service of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, Maternity Care Coalition Inc., Outreach-Center For Community Resources, Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County Inc., Jefferson-Clarion Head Start Inc., City of Philadelphia Maternal, Child & Family Health Division, Children's Advocacy Center of Lawrence County Inc., and Community Action Commission (Tri County Community Action). Sub-awards are obligated at dates ranging from April 2 through April 14, 2026.

Abstract

Purpose: to sustain and grow 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. Currently, there are six ebhv models from the homevee list being implemented by a total of twenty-four local implementing agencies (lias) across twenty-nine counties in the state. Ebhv models have been funded to offer services that are responsive and reflective of the identified needs of the populations and communities in which they are located. Goals and objectives: miechv goal: ocdel will ensure that a continued success rate of 100% of the lias deliver ebhv services with fidelity to strengthen and support families and promote maternal, infant, and early childhood health and safety through the end of the current grant agreement contracts, which are currently three-year contracts with two additional optional one-year renewals. These new grant agreement contracts began on july 1, 2022, and, if extended for all five years of the grant cycle, will end on june 30, 2027. The following objectives will be followed until the end of the current grant cycle. Miechv objectives: objective 1: request for application (RFA). The department, with ocdel, will issue a new competitive family support request for application (RFA) by no later than end of calendar year 2026, with new agreements anticipated to begin on july 1, 2027. Objective 2: stakeholder relations and leadership. Ocdel will ensure that all lias participate in at least 75% of the offered family support leadership meetings, which will be created using an updated format. Stakeholders are additionally invited. Invites and content will be posted on the family support website for awareness and review. Objective 3: professional development (PD) and technical assistance (TA). Ocdel will continue to provide up to four (4) trainings, community of practices, or roundtable events each state fiscal year (in-person or virtual). Objective 4: model and LIA fidelity. Ocdel will work in continued coordination with ebhv model developers for all lias receiving miechv funding to ensure fidelity of each model is met. Ocdel will connect with any new model developers, if applicable, for lias awarded through the increased miechv funds. Objective 5: enrollment. Ocdel will continue with established policies that all programs maintain at least the miechv standard of 85% enrollment. Objective 6: quality data. 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. Approach: six ebhv models are supported by miechv funds: child first, early head start, family check-up for children, nurse-family partnership, parents as teachers, and safecare augmented total proposed caseload of miechv family slots 2,205 families communities (29 counties) served by miechv funds: allegheny, beaver, blair, bucks, cameron, carbon, clarion, clearfield, columbia, crawford, erie, fayette, fulton, indiana, jefferson, juniata, lackawanna, lawrence, mckean, mercer, mifflin, montgomery, perry, philadelphia, pike, potter, snyder, union, and warren. Lias a total of 25 lias are designated to receive miechv funding. Matching funds federal matching funds will be used to support an established LIA serving approximately 100 families in philadelphia county using the child first model. The source of non-federal matching funds will come out of the ebhv state budget and will be used to support an established LIA serving approximately 113 families in monroe county using the nurse-family partnership model.