What is home visiting?

The Consortium defines perinatal and early childhood home visiting as a multi-disciplinary, family-centered support strategy with services delivered by trained professionals in the home that:

• Is offered on a voluntary basis to pregnant women and/or families with children through the age of 5;

• Provides a comprehensive array of holistic, strength-based services that promote parent and child physical and mental health, bonding and attachment, confidence and self-sufficiency, and optimizes infant/child development by building positive, empathetic, and supportive relationships with families and reinforcing nurturing relationships between parents and children;

• Is designed to empower parent(s) to achieve specific outcomes which may include: healthy pregnancy, birth and infancy, optimal infant/child development, school readiness and prevention of adverse childhood experiences.