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About MIECHV Program

The MIECHV program is designed to strengthen and improve programs and coordination of services for at-risk communities and to improve outcomes for those families. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) see home visiting as one of several strategies embedded in a quality early childhood system that promotes maternal, infant and early childhood health, safety and development, as well as strong parent-child relationships.

• SIR for the Submission of the Updated State Plan

The Parents as Teachers FIT

Parents as Teachers is a strong evidence-based home visiting model providing a broad context of parenting education and family support, and building protective factors, especially for those families in vulnerable situations. At its core, Parents as Teachers is relationship-based and parenting-focused. Our approach and curriculum focus on parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being; on strengths, capabilities and skills; and on building protective factors within the family. Parents as Teachers serves a range of families with high needs—not just first time parents, pregnant parents or teen parents—and offers services throughout the continuum from prenatal to kindergarten entry.

A newly revised curriculum with an increased emphasis on evidence-based practices for working with vulnerable populations and a strengthened home visiting model with a heightened focus on quality means Parents as Teachers is well positioned to demonstrate success and document model fidelity.

• Parents as Teachers Essential Requirements

See why Strengthening Families^TM protective factors increase our effectiveness.

Resources to help with updated state plans

• Identifying outcomes

See the expected outcomes from the Parents as Teachers approach in this logic model.

• Meeting the needs of targeted communities

See how Parents as Teachers addresses needs of many at-risk demographics in this curriculum outline. 

• Planning affiliate implementation

Use this form to plan for implemention [download].

• Meeting benchmarks

See how Parents as Teachers outcomes match up with MIECHV benchmarks here.

• Building a budget for implementation

Use this interactive budget tool to help build a start-up budget for year one and an ongoing budget for successive years here. (Note: see all 3 tabs)

• Template language

The Supplemental Information Request (SIR) for state home visiting plans outlines nine sections of required narrative in updated plans. Parents as Teachers has crafted language around each of these sections to support you as you write your narrative.

• Process for approval to implement the Parents as Teachers model 

• • Read the Essential Requirements
  • Perform a Readiness Reflection
  • Complete the Request to Initiate Approval Online Survey (as part of this survey you will be asked to confirm that you have read the Essential Requirements and performed the Readiness Reflection)
  • Be contacted by the national office for Parents as Teachers for initial technical assistance
  • Submit a completed state plan
  • Be available for additional contact with national office as necessary
  • Receive approval letter from Parents as Teachers national office

The Parents as Teachers office will need 5 business days to review submitted plans and produce the approval letter, so please factor this into your timeline.

Questions?

Contact Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at 314-432-4330 ext. 270. [fact sheet]