Cornerstone 2: Family Support & Home Visiting Programs

Families are supported in their role as a child’s first and most important teacher with family support services that meet their diverse needs.

CREATE COORDINATED INTAKE & REFERRAL SYSTEM

Improve cross-program referrals through improved information sharing and processes.
- Outcome: Families can access home visiting services that meet their specific needs more quickly; decreased enrollment disparities.
Provide social support and connect families to information about home visiting and early childhood resources through community gatherings with parents and home visitors.
- Outcome: Increased parental sense of belonging; Increased knowledge about home visiting and other community services.

Enhance home visitor professional development and cross-program learning through shared training and communities of practice for inter-program problem solving.
- Outcome: Increased recruitment and retention of home visitor workforce; Increased knowledge, skill and problem solving; Increased sense of belonging; Early childhood professionals are supported, developed, and sustained in a thriving workplace.