Written by Delgado staff Thursday, 02 June 2011 14:57
This competitive grant funding will be awarded to eligible states to support effective implementation of home visiting programs. Successful applicants will receive grants to expand services, as well as promote innovation and infrastructure development within their comprehensive, early childhood state systems. "Home visitation programs that can apply for these grants include those in which nurses, social workers, or other professionals meet with at-risk families in their homes," Delgado said. "They will then provide them with services related to child abuse prevention, parenting skills, health care, developmental services for children, early education, and nutrition education or assistance." "This funding opportunity in the Affordable Care Act will support states in their efforts to expand and improve home visiting support services for our most vulnerable children and families," said Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "We encourage states to continue exploring ways to enhance their Home Visiting activities funded by the Affordable Care Act, and these grants will provide states with successful, evidence-based Home Visiting programs with additional resources to improve these much needed services," HRSA Administrator Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N. HHS’s Administration for Children and Families collaborates with Health Resource Service Administration to implement the MIECHV program and leads the Tribal Home Visiting Program. "This additional funding helps provide valuable information related to parenting, early child development and school readiness," said David A. Hansell, acting assistant secretary for children and families.
Senator William Delgado (D–Chicago) said today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced up to $99 million in competitive funding grants under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program to assist service providers throughout Illinois.
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2nd District
Years served: 1999 - 2006 (House); 2006 - Present (Senate)
Committee assignments: Human Services; Appropriations I; Public Health (Chairperson); Consumer Protection (Vice-Chairperson); Executive Appointments; Committee of the Whole; Joint Comm. on Government Reform; Subcommittee on Amendments.
Biography: Full-time state legislator; born in Newark, NJ.; B.A. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University; Leadership Chairman of the 2nd Legislative District's Volunteer Political Organization; married (wife, Iris), has two children.
