We know that early positive interactions between caregivers and their children can have a great impact on success later in life. Home-based services are a type of relationship-based support provided by trained home visitors to expecting caregivers, and caregivers of children birth to age five in the place families feel most comfortable – their home. Through Best Starts’ Home-Based Services strategy, parents are provided a range of resources that support healthy births, increased parenting knowledge and confidence, strengthened parent-child attachment, positive child development, and school readiness.
Best Starts understands that it’s important for families to have a range of different home-based services that best support them. To support building a system that meets the needs of all families, we invest in Nationally-Implemented and Community-Designed Programs.
The last program model expands the dominant cultural understanding of “evidence” to include community-based ways of knowing—such as experience, knowledge, and local client data—and show that practitioners in the field, families, communities, and diverse cultures serve a vital role in identifying optimum programs and services. Collectively, all two program models are vital to Best Starts’ vision of investing early, so that babies are born healthy and establish a strong foundation for lifelong health and well-being.
This strategy invests in:
Investing Early (prenatal – 5)
so that babies are born healthy and establish a strong foundation for lifelong health and well-being
Estimated annual reach:
1,650 families
Funding Estimate (2022-2027):
$63,398,000
