Maternal, infant and early childhood homevisiting grant program - address: PO box 142002, salt lake city, UT 84114 project director: elizabeth vansant-webb phone number: (385) 271-7231 email address

The Utah Department of Health and Human Services received a $5.4 million Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant Program (CFDA 93.870) on September 30, 2025, with completion scheduled for September 29, 2027. The award supports the implementation of evidence-based home visiting services to pregnant women and families with young children across nine Utah counties, utilizing three federally approved models: Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-Visiting, Nurse-Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers. With matching funds, the program aims to expand service capacity from 968 families in Fiscal Year 2025 to 993 families in Fiscal Year 2026, while improving recruitment and retention of priority populations.

The grant funds workforce development initiatives, quality improvement efforts, and stakeholder engagement activities designed to strengthen home visiting service delivery across Utah's mixed delivery system. Local implementing agencies, including Salt Lake County's Department of Human Services, Central Utah Public Health Department, and Prevent Child Abuse Utah, provide direct service delivery through sub-awards. These sub-grantees deliver Parents as Teachers and Nurse-Family Partnership programs to high-risk families in Salt Lake, Davis, and Weber Counties. The program emphasizes improving service intensity and duration consistency, enhancing workforce mastery and competence, expanding quality improvement leadership capacity, and re-establishing statewide collaboration councils to guide future evidence-based home visiting implementation.