Home visitation program serving parents who are pregnant or have children up to three years old. Support and information is provided.

Services are designed to, maximize children's overall development, and provide a foundation for school success. Provide developmental screening to minimize developmental problems which might interfere with learning and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Provides services designed to assure adequate maternal and infant care during the prenatal, delivery, and early post-partum periods. Services include case management, physical assessments, nutrition counseling, prenatal education, and limited financial assistance.

The IDHS-DEC Home Visiting Program supports pregnant people and parents with young children ages 0-5 who live in communities that face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal and child health outcomes.

Families choose to participate in home visiting programs, and partner with health, social service, and child development professionals to set and achieve goals that improve their health and well-being.

Service providers use one of the following four evidence-based home visiting models: Early Head Start Home-Based (EHS), Healthy Families America (HFA), Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), and Parents as Teachers (PAT).

A voluntary home visiting program that provides family support and coaching for expectant parents and parents of young children ages birth to 3. The program provides guidance about child development, child safety, practical parenting skills, and family bonding. The agency's trained professionals provide regular visits based on the family's needs, preferences, and schedules. Visits may be in-person or virtual.

Doula services are also available. This includes prenatal information and support, labor coaching, breastfeeding, postpartum depression support, and assistance in the early weeks after childbirth.

Program provides support to pregnant and post partum women and their infants and children including medical and nutrition education, home visits, and resource referral information for promotion of proper growth and development of infants and children.

Offers to connect enrolled families to a Home Visiting professional who employs the Baby TALK Family Engagement Approach to meet families where they are. Home Visitors come alongside families prenatally through age three to collaborate around child and family goals, as well as child development and family interactions. Home Visits take place weekly or bi-weekly, depending on what is appropriate for the family.

Promotes a healthy pregnancy and a child's health, growth, and development.

Services include:

- Referrals to prenatal care schedule and scheduling OB appointment
- In office and in home visits by a nurse case manager
- Education related to topics, including nutrition, pregnancy, infant/child growth and development, and preventive medical services
- Referrals to medical care and immunizations
- Clinical visits include weight and BP checks as well as screenings for depression and development
- Referral to area agencies for any needed services in the family unit (food, clothing, shelter, daycare, transportation, etc.)