Family Resource Centers and In Home Family Education
Family Resource Centers bring together existing services in a single location
such as a school or other neighborhood building. This comprehensive approach
increases the accessibility of services, brings resources together in one place,
provides family support and education, and allows the Centers to meet the
community's needs. Our Family Resource Centers serve families pre-natal through
age eighteen. Each Center offers a variety of services to reflect the diversity
of the community needs. See below for more information on the various Family Resource Centers across the state.
FRC Coordinators at our October 2011 Core FRC Training in Charleston, WV
Family Resource Center Core Training 2013 in Summers County, WV
The list below conains a description of each center. The programs include:
- Marshall County Family Resource Center
- Morgan County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Pocahontas Family Education and Outreach Center
- Preston County Family Resource Center
- Tucker County Family Resource Center
- Mid-Town Family Resource Center in Parkersburg
- Lincoln County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Brooke Hancock Family Resource Center
- Big Creek People In Action Family Resource Center in McDowelle County
- Wetzel County Center for Children and Families
- REACHH Family Resource Center in Summers County
- Wyoming County Family Resource Center
- Wayne County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Marvin Gray Family Life Center in Huntington
- Marshall County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Monongalia County Starting Points Family Resource Center and Shack Neighborhood House
- Home Ties Strengthening Families Center
- Upper Kanawha Valley Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Mercer County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Nicholas County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Taylor County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Webster County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Fayette County Starting Points Family Resource Center
- Doddridge County Starting Points Family Resource Center
In Home Family Education Programs are voluntary home visiting programs that include
Parents as Teachers, Healthy Families America, and Maternal Infant Health
Outreach Workers. Each delivers a range of supportive services to families with
young children. Each program relies on home visiting staff to establish a
supportive relationship with the families, provide a range of educational
services, and link families to needed supportive services in the community. For
more information and to find specific programs, click here.
Northern Panhandle MIHOW Program highlighted during a visit with the Early Childhood Advisory Council
Strengthening Families and the Connection with home visiting
The Bureau for Children and Families also works closely with the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visitation (MIECHV) Program. Designated by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin as the agency to receive the Affordable Care Act home visitation dollars, the Office of Maternal Child and Family Health (OMCFH) in the Department manages this grant. More information on the WV Home Visitation Program can be found here.
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