{"id":735,"date":"2019-04-01T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/?p=735"},"modified":"2019-04-09T20:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:23:36","slug":"the-benefits-of-home-visiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/the-benefits-of-home-visiting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Home Visiting"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Benefits-of-Home-Visiting.pdf\">A new brief from KAC and UMHMF<\/a> focuses on the many benefits of evidence-based home visiting programs in helping parents take an informed, active role in the lives of their children.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Through home-based visits with trained professionals equipped with evidence-based strategies and tactics, parents gain skills and competencies essential to supporting and improving the health and development of their children. Ensuring a strong start to a child&#8217;s life is critical; therefore, investing in preventive programs from the beginning of life will yield better outcomes than paying for reparative services needed when future challenges emerge. Well-designed and implemented home visiting programs can reduce the societal cost of poor health and academic failure, and return $5.70 for every dollar invested.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Research demonstrates there are multiple benefits of quality home visiting programs that positively impact outcomes including:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Preventing child maltreatment<\/li><li>Supporting positive parenting<\/li><li>Improving maternal and child health<\/li><li>Promoting child development, and<\/li><li>Increasing school readiness<\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Benefits-of-Home-Visiting.pdf\">read the full brief here<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new brief from KAC and UMHMF focuses on the many benefits of evidence-based home visiting programs in helping parents take an informed, active role in the lives of their children. Through home-based visits with trained professionals equipped with evidence-based strategies and tactics, parents gain skills and competencies essential to supporting and improving the health &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}