The Home Visiting Network online space provides resources for home visiting professionals that address emerging issues and the collective professional development needs of the field. This site is collaboratively developed and maintained by the Home Visiting Coalition and its partnering organizations, and First 5 San Joaquin.
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By meeting families where they are, home visiting programs have demonstrated short- and long-term impacts on the health, safety, and school-readiness of children; maternal health; and family stability and financial security. Home visitors are able to meet with families in their home and provide culturally competent, individualized needs assessments and services. This results in measured improvements in the following outcomes: healthy babies, safe homes and nurturing relationships, optimal early learning and long-term academic achievement, and supported families.
San Joaquin County has several home visiting programs currently providing quality services to families. Home visiting is a proven early childhood service delivery strategy that matches expectant families and families with young children with a trained home visitor—often a parent educator, nurse, social worker, or early childhood specialist—who provides individualized, family-centered supports during the critical development period of pregnancy and a child’s first years. Home visitors meet with families in their home or a location of their choosing, including virtually due to COVID-19. Home visiting programs aim to support the whole family by providing resources and building skills for parents and their children, simultaneously.
Early Head Start Home-Based programs offer home-based services that assign dedicated staff who conduct weekly visits to children in their own home and work with the parent and child.
The FamilyWORKs program provides home visitation services to CalWORKs families with children ages 0 to 3.
The First 5 Home Visitation Initiative provides home visitation services to help parents prepare children for school success and make healthy lifestyle changes.
The JourneyWORKs program provides home visitation services to address mental health and substance abuse issues for families that are participating in the CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work program.
Head Start Home-Based programs offer home-based services that assign dedicated staff who conduct weekly visits to children in their own home and work with the parent and child.
Home visit or virtual appointments provided with a Family Support Specialist. This evidence-based program focuses on strengthening parent-child relationships and interactions.
Provides home visits for high-risk families and infants for care referrals and coordination, developmental assessments and parent education.