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In Yolo County, all postpartum families with Medi-Cal coverage are offered the Welcome Baby: Road to Resilience (Welcome Baby) program. Started and championed in 2019 by Gina Daleiden, First 5 Yolo Chief Executive Officer, Welcome Baby first started as The CHILD Project: Road to Resilience, an in-clinic and in-home navigation program.
First 5 Center for Children’s Policy has new blog posts exploring how COVID-19 is affecting families due to changes in home visiting, early intervention, and preventive care.
Home visiting and parent education programs of the Child Care Resource Center have been able to continue supporting families and young children during the shelter-in-place orders.
To understand home visitors’ workforce development needs, the First 5 Center for Children’s Policy commissioned ZERO TO THREE to conduct focus groups and surveys with home visitors who had participated in professional development opportunities. This brief explores the three key lessons that emerged from that research.
As states begin easing stay-at-home orders and lifting restrictions on businesses and public spaces, home visitors, who have shifted to virtual visits during the pandemic, are thinking through how this will impact the field and their ongoing connections with families. To address some common concerns, the Rapid Response-Virtual Home Visiting Collaborative brought together representatives from several models for a Q&A session.
Visits, now conducted by phone or video call, can be a comfort and an escape from the everyday stresses of living and parenting during COVID-19.
In this blog we break down some important parts of the Family First Prevention Services Act and its implementation in California to help early childhood leaders understand what the opportunities are.
Babies bring big change to families and all parents can benefit from emotional, physical, and educational supports to help them with the transition. Over the past few years California has made important strides to improve the continuum of maternal and child health services, from prenatal care to postpartum and beyond.
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