Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Lizelle Lirio de Luna, Director, Family Health Services
Subject: Amendment to the Agreement with the California Department of Public Health for the California Home Visiting Program
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to the agreement with the California Department of Public Health for the California Home Visiting Program, decreasing the amount by $255,458 to an amount not to exceed $4,381,150.
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BACKGROUND:
Under the California Department of Public Health, the California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) was created as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Family Health Services (FHS) has been receiving CHVP funding for its own Nurse-Family Partnership Program (NFP) for over seven years.
NFP is an evidence-based nurse home visiting program with over 40 years of research to support its efficacy in positively impacting the life trajectory of first-time mothers and their children. Using a client-centered, strengths-based approach, nurses work with families for up to 30 months with 64 planned home visits, providing an intensive level of support that has proven positive outcomes. Research data gathered at the state and national levels shows lasting positive impacts for NFP families more than 12 years after they exit the program. Outcomes have included: 48% reduction in child abuse and neglect; 59% reduction in child arrests at age 15; 72% fewer convictions of mothers; 56% reduction in emergency room visits for accidents and poisonings; and 67% reduction in behavioral and intellectual problems at age 6. NFP is found to reduce preventable causes of death among children and all causes of death among mothers.
NFP nurses serve teens and young women county-wide and focus on culturally diverse young mothers in at-risk urban areas: North C...
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