Early childhood home visiting is a service delivery strategy that matches expectant parents and caregivers of young children with a designated support person—typically a trained nurse, social worker, or early childhood specialist—who guides them through the early stages of raising a family. Services are voluntary, may include caregiver coaching or connecting families to needed services, and are provided in the family's home or another location of the family's choice.   

DC Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) is a federally funded home visiting program that supports expectant parents and parents with young children who live in communities that face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal and child health outcomes through evidence-based home visiting models.  These programs include:  

• Mary’s Center – Parents As Teachers (PAT) 
  PAT supports parents in becoming their child’s first and most important teacher. Families can enroll prenatally through their child turning 36 months and can participate until their child turns five or enters kindergarten.   
• Mary’s Center – Healthy Families America (HFA) 
  HFA Uses a strengths-based, family-centered approach to provide intensive home visitation services to families with complex needs. Families can enroll prenatally through three months postpartum and can participate until their youngest child is between three to five years old.  
• Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD) 
  GUCCHD are MIECHV evaluation partners providing activities that focused on efforts designed to better understand the factors that contribute to families’ engagement and outcomes within home visiting.   

Locally funded Home Visiting programs serve expectant parents and parents of young children ages 0–5 to prevent problems and intervene early on problems with children’s health and development. Supports range from education, developmental and behavioral screenings and linkages to appropriate resources.  

• Community of Hope – Parents As Teachers (PAT) 
  Community of Hope implements the Parents As Teachers Home Visiting Model.  Model is parenting knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and family well-being impacts the child’s developmental trajectory.  Emphasis on parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being.  Their patients reside across the District but are primarily in the neighborhoods surrounding their three health centers located in Ward 1’s Adams Morgan, Ward 5’s Carver-Langston, and Ward 8’s Bellevue.  
• Georgetown Parenting Support Program (PSP) 
  Georgetown Parent Support Program implements the Parents as Teachers evidenced based model with a cohort of Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Children with Autism, and/or CFSA involvement who reside in the District of Columbia. Parents with intellectual disability or other developmental disabilities (IDD) can have various levels of cognitive impairment. An intellectual disability occurs before age 18 and is characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social and practical adaptive skills. Parents with IDD often face an increased risk of losing parental custody of their children compared to parents without IDD.  The ability to parent successfully depends on a wide range of factors, and parents with IDD can become effective parents with appropriate supports, such as those offered by the Parents as Teachers model.   
• Mamatoto Village – Parental Health Worker Training  
  DC Health and Mamatoto Village seeks to increase the efficacy and capacity of the workforce development program (Perinatal Health Worker Training - PHWT) through hiring staff, continuing to build working relationships with community-based partners, creating a robust online training course, and evaluation. Mamatoto’s PCHW training program prepares women of color to serve within their own communities. Women receiving training through the PHWT program are uniquely positioned to serve the perinatal community in a myriad of capacities including direct perinatal care and support, advocacy and policy engagement, and entry level social work and public health careers.