Date: 09/28/2015

Final
Home Visitation Programs

EARLY CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL READINESS

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11:37 AM -- Home Visitation Programs

The next panelists came to the table: Allison Mosqueda, Consultant, Nurse-Family Partnership, Charlotte Brantley, President and CEO, Clayton Early Learning, and Jackie Cordova, Home and Community Based Mentor Coach, Clayton Early Learning. Ms. Mosqueda distributed a handout (Attachment E) and provided background information about the Nurse-Family Partnership. She discussed the importance of working with young children before problems start, including improving pregnancy outcomes, child development, and self-sufficiency of parents. She explained that nurses from the home visiting program visit parents starting early in pregnancy until a child is approximately two years old, and visit the family's home every 2 weeks. She explained that the home visit is with a registered nurse, and the focus is on six key areas: personal health, environmental health, maternal role, life course development, family and friends, and health and human service utilization. She spoke about the history of home visitation programs and about the randomized control trials that show the success of these programs. She told the commission members that the Nurse-Family Partnership is a public-private partnership, with the Office of Early Childhood as the fiscal agent, Invest in Kids as the program support, and the University of Colorado as the contract manager. She spoke about the success of the program in Colorado and how the program saves the state money. She discussed a study by the Rand Corporation showing that every dollar invested in the Nurse-Family Partnership yields a $5 return in the future.

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11:45 AM

Ms. Brantley provided background information about Clayton Early Learning, which offers home-based programs for infants, toddlers, and preschool children. She discussed the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) and told the commission members that 94 percent of preschool age children in HIPPY identify as Hispanic. She provided other statistics about the students enrolled in the home-based program as opposed to the center-based progam. She said that 64 percent of families enrolled in home-based program report food insecurity issues. Ms. Brantley talked about the tools used to assess the outcomes of children who have participated in Clayton Early Learning's home-based versus center-based programs, and said that the data shows that the majority of children who participate in both types of programs enter school ready for kindergarten.


11:52 AM

Ms. Cordova told the commission members that she is a former home visitor and is now a mentor coach. She explained that home visitors visit a family once a week, and that twice a month a group of families and their home visitor come together for socialization activities. She said there are currently 56 families and eight home visitors in the infant and toddler program, and 72 families and 6 home visitors in the preschool program for 3-5 year olds. She stated that the program supports parents in their role as primary caregivers, promotes self-sufficiency, helps connect families to resources in their community, and provides families with activities and books to help with a child's social, emotional, and cognitive abilities.


11:57 AM

The panelists answered questions from the commission members.