Winnebago County Health Dept. Receives Home Visiting Grant
By: Sabrina Santucci
Updated: June 19, 2012
The Winnebago County Health Department acts as the coordinating intake provider to four programs helping young parents.
The partnership
called the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting Program or MIECHVP
received a federal grant totaling $543,627.00.
The City of
Those four programs
offer home visiting programs to at-risk families and children. Combined the
organizations will now be able to offer services to more than one-hundred additional
families.
La
Voz Participant James Roeber says utilizing La Voz Latina's services has helped
his family substantially, "they helped us a lot. I mean we really didn't know
what we were getting into at all and they gave us a lot of good information to
help us out before the baby and after. I think we'd be in a different position
if La Voz Latina didn't help us out so much."
The home visiting
services work to improve mom and new born health, prevent child abuse and
improve family self-sufficiency.
One woman says she
wouldn't be where she is today without Easter Seals. "I've been able to stay in
school. I recently graduated; I graduated with a 4.0 GPA. I've been able to
look for a job without giving up and it's been a blessing. I enrolled in
college I'll be starting in the fall," said Jemicia Darden.
