Children’s Campaign Signs Letter in Support of Preserving Federal Funding for Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs

This week, the Children’s Campaign signed on to a letter in support of preserving federal funding for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. Passed in 2010 with bipartisan support as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the MIECHV program provides funding to states to implement evidence-based home visiting programs aimed at helping the nation’s most vulnerable families. The letter, which was sent to the Committees on Appropriations and the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the “Super Committee,” urges lawmakers to spare the MIECHV program in their deficit-reduction efforts.

Evidence-based home visiting programs such as the Nurse-Family Partnership, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters, and Parents as Teachers, the three programs funded by the MIECHV program in Colorado, improve child health and well-being and save taxpayers money in a variety of ways. Research shows that the Nurse-Family Partnership, for example, yields a societal benefit of $5.70 per dollar invested into the program. We hope federal lawmakers will recognize the importance of investing in children from low-income families by continuing to maintain funding for these programs.

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