The home-based program supports families by allowing for the scheduling of home visits with the child’s parents or legal guardian in the family’s home. To the greatest extent possible, the visits are conducted in the family’s preferred language. If necessary, a translator may be needed to support and communicate with the family. 46 home visits are scheduled for each family annually, each lasting 90 minutes for each family. Home visitors plan activities using the assigned curriculum. They also share child information with the family, including observations, screening results, and assessment data. The parents or legal guardians also share information regarding their child with the home visitors, which is also used in planning activities and assessing the child.

Services for expectant families are also conducted weekly in the home. The program will help expectant families with ongoing health care and health insurance, as appropriate. Comprehensive services (including nutritional counseling, food assistance, oral health care, mental health services, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and emergency shelter or transitional housing in cases of domestic violence) are provided through interactions with the home visits as well as our mental health, nutrition, and health consultants.

The program also conducts a newborn visit with each mother and baby within 2 weeks after the birth of the child. Prenatal and postpartum information, education, and services that address fetal development, the importance of nutrition, the risks of alcohol, drugs, and smoking, labor and delivery, postpartum recovery, parental depression, infant care, safe sleep practices, and the benefits of breastfeeding are provided. Finally, the program addresses and provides support for emotional well-being, nurturing and responsive caregiving, and father engagement during pregnancy and early childhood.