Community Connections- The Story of Home Visitation Agencies Coming Together to Better Serve Our Families
About this session
Planning Region Team 5 identified the need to work closely together with area home visiting agencies to best serve the Beatrice/Gage County area families. Starting in 2021, when referrals for home visiting services had hit a high, it was identified that there was confusion on home visitation services available and the referral process for young families by medical professionals, child protective services, and even within the home visitation agencies. EDN Services Coordinator Jesse Meints-Harms and Angela Johnson, Health Families America Program Coordinator decided to reach out to other home visiting agencies to work together to help clear up confusion as well as discuss curriculums used, best practices, and challenges the agencies face doing home visits. This panel of members of the Community Connections group will discuss the steps we took to create the group, determine our purpose, challenges we faced and highlight activities we have done to better serve families in Gage County.
Intended Audiences: Home Visiting Agencies
Learning objectives
- To discuss the steps taken in the creation of home visitor agencies collaborative meetings.
- To identify the purpose, challenges the group faced and collaborative activities done to meet the needs of the families.
- To suggestions on how to replicate this collaborative approach to assist agencies in meeting the needs of the community and families.