For the first time in over three years, home visitors across the state came together in person last month for the 2023 All Sites Assembly. The annual training event hosted by Children’s Trust includes three days of learning, coalition building and fun.
Home visitors – who can be nurses, social workers or child development specialists – support preventive health and prenatal practices, help parents understand developmental milestones, promote the use of positive parenting techniques, and work with mothers to set goals for the future, continue their education, and find employment and childcare. They often work with families from pregnancy until the child turns two years old.
As South Carolina’s lead agency for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) federal grant since 2010, Children’s Trust supports three evidence-based home visiting models – Healthy Families America, Nurse-Family Partnership and Parents as Teachers – in partnership with implementing agencies across the state.
Last year, home visitors made 17,456 visits to 2,614 families in 39 of the state’s 46 counties. Learn more.
