Maternal child health home visitation has been shown to effectively assist young families and their offspring in navigating health care systems. LaSalle Neighborhood Nursing Center has provided family health home visiting and health promotion since 1993 with Philadelphia Department of Health, Office of Maternal Child Health funding. In 1998, the Department of Health modified LaSalle’s home visiting program in both target population and parameters of client service. This program, Health Intervention Program for Families (HIP) connects LaSalle with two other home visiting agencies providing services throughout the city. In addition, HIP connects with two citywide agencies traditionally providing child welfare and drug and alcohol treatment who participate with HIP to expand services for their clients. This new model emphasizes early intervention and utilization of community resources for identified health problems. The Health Department with current uniform record keeping and data collection modalities provides more centrally defined HIP services. The agencies developed their programs with the Health Department to reflect a coordinated citywide effort to meet high-risk family needs across the city and share expanding and complementing services for their at–risk clients. The presentation utilizes the case study method to describe HIP outcomes and interagency collaborations providing services to children at health risk and their families who have psychosocial risks. Discussion will include the development of an agency database and data management. These activities will demonstrate the value of services provided in a collaborative network of family and community resources.
Learning Objectives: The learner/participant will be able to: 1. Describe collaborative partnerships developed to provide family health home visiting 2. describe database and data management development in this program
Keywords: Home Visiting, Maternal and Child Health
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.