Home Visiting is a service provided within the home to first-time parents. Home Visiting programs provide parents with support to enhance the child-parent relationship. With these enhanced skills, parents can create environments that positively impact their child’s social and emotional development and prepare him or her for a productive life.

This service includes:

• Assisting families in identifying informal support networks;

• Providing referrals to community resources as necessary;

• Providing information on prenatal health, newborn care and child development;

• Determining if families have been referred to Medicaid;

• Post-partum visits conducted when possible and include assessment of the mothers’ well-being, specifically: physical, emotional, social supports, and concrete needs; and

• Guiding families, caregivers and adoptive parents through child developmental curricula.

For more information on the CYFD Home Visiting program, please contact Soledad Martinez, Home Visiting Program Manager, at (505) 827-4114.