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On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010 designed to make quality affordable health care available to all Americans. A provision authorized the creation of the Affordable Care Act(ACA) Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visitation Program.

 

This Act provides an opportunity for collaboration and partnership at the Federal, State and community levels to develop and improve health outcomes for at-risk children through evidenced-based home visiting programs. The goal of the ACA is:
 

 

  1. Strengthen and improve the programs and activities carried out under Title V;

  2. Improve coordination of services for at-risk communities; and

  3. Identify and provide comprehensive services to improve outcomes for families who reside in at-risk communities.

 

As designated by the WVDHHR, on behalf of Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, the Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health (OMCFH) (the State’s Title V Agency) was assigned the lead agency responsibility for development and implementation of the home visitation program. The home visitation models/programs currently providing services in the State include:

 

 

  • Partners in Community Outreach (Healthy Families America, Maternal Infant Health Outreach Workers and Parents as Teachers);

  • Early Head Start;

  • Right From The Start Program (the State’s Medicaid perinatal case management home visitation program); and

  • Healthy Start/Helping Appalachian Parents & Infants (HAPI) Project

 

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