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Home Visiting Is Essential

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Now, more than ever, home visiting is an essential service for families. Social isolation and families living in cramped conditions can lead to increases in domestic violence and child maltreatment. Home visitors can help mitigate these situations by maintaining contact with families and providing support.*

*all quotes on this page are sample talking points – use them in your next conversation with someone about home visiting!

Federal Support: Urge Senators to Supplement Home Visiting Funding in Economic Stimulus Bill

In mid-May, the House of Representatives passed a second package of economic stimulus funding in a continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic and included a $100 million in emergency supplemental funding for home visiting and the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program.

Now the Senate is taking up its version of the legislation, and once passed, the Senate’s bill will need to be negotiated with the House so that both chambers can agree on a finalized bill, and we need to ensure that the beneficial home visiting language in the House bill is maintained in the final, agreed upon product! It is therefore critically important that we reach out to ensure Senators understand the necessity of including emergency funding for home visiting and MIECHV programs in the final bill.

Click here to send a message to your Senator today

Strengthening your state and local support

Here are three ways in which you can rally your funders, state leaders, friends, and others, in support of home visiting.

Campaign goal: All existing funders of home visiting will maintain existing home visiting investments, so that families will continue to receive services, and we can retain jobs for home visiting professionals across the nation.

When we stopped visiting families in person due to COVID-19, we pivoted immediately to providing video and telehealth virtual visits to serve families without interruption. Our home visitors are still at work doing visits and screenings. Home visiting programs are rising to the occasion and engaging their communities by providing virtual home visiting, putting together “drop-off” family kits with diapers and activities for families—with appropriate social distancing. If anything, home visitors are working harder than ever!

3 ways to spread the word:

1

Reach out to your local VIP’s!

At Healthy Families America, we know #HomeVisitingIsEssential. Ask your state and local VIP(Very Important People)’s to support your important work. We’ve worked on key messaging to help you make the ask.

Reaching out with the right message is as easy as 1,2,3

 

2

Spread the love on social media

Whether tweeting directly to your representatives, or using social media to solicit support for #homevisitingisessential in your local community, you can spread the word far through social media (especially while we’re practicing physical distancing!)

Download sample tweets and messages

3

Submit a video to our video campaign

To bring the #homevisitingisessential campaign to life in another way, the Rapid Response team is launching a new Video Campaign. Videos from your families, community members, and home visiting team can help to emphasize the importance of your work, and our work together.

Get the how-to-video guide

Home visiting has bipartisan support and plays a leading role engaging our most under-resourced families. This is even more important during the uncertainties of this pandemic. During this economic uncertainty, families receiving home visiting services are experiencing the devastating impacts of loss of income, balancing work without childcare, and difficulty finding food and other necessities – simply trying to survive the months to come. For many, home visitors provide much-needed connections to community resources.*

 

Healthy Families America is proud to participate with other leading home visiting models in the #homevistingisessential campaign, developed by The Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting (RR-VHV) collaborative.

During this unprecedented COVID-19 public health crisis, leaders in the national home visiting field have formed a rapid response collaborative to create and disseminate free resources, helping programs transition into the virtual environment and sustain the important work of home visiting.

Learn more about the Rapid Response work here.

Want to contact us?

Interested in learning more about our home visiting programs or helping transform childhoods and communities? Get in touch—we’ll respond as quickly as we can.

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