Children’s Trust has launched the newest version of its home visiting website for its partners across South Carolina at schomevisiting.org.
Designed in coordination with the Home Visiting Consortium, this site is intended to support home visiting professionals and the work of home visiting across the state. This update expands on the earlier site by adding additional links to professional development opportunities, expanded information on the consortium, and data and research.
“The new home visiting website has functionality to connect viewers directly with consortium members and workgroups,” said Katrin Bost, Children’s Trust home visiting systems coordinator. “Since the consortium aims to create a network of home visiting programs and integrate home visiting into the broader early childhood system, this site aligns with directly with its purpose.”
The South Carolina Home Visiting Consortium, which focuses on providing workforce development to professionals in the state, brings together the different entities to streamline efforts around data collection, common outcomes, and advocacy efforts to have a collective impact around home visiting.
As South Carolina’s lead agency for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) federal grant since 2010, Children’s Trust has taken a leadership role in working with partners to deliver home visiting programs across the state.
Children’s Trust supported sites in 40 of South Carolina’s counties to provide more than 17,000 home visits over the past year with funding from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Home visiting program models such as Healthy Families America, Nurse-Family Partnership and Parents as Teachers address critical areas of child well-being, which include a concentration in improving maternal and child health, preventing child abuse and neglect, encouraging positive parenting, and promoting child development and school readiness.
