Home Visits Bring Hope to More Arkansas Families

Chris Engel 9/20/134:30 PM

"Advocates for Arkansas families and children hope home visits can make a big, positive difference for the state....

"People do not have children intending to be a bad parent, and some parents need specific kinds of help,” she says. “The job of a home visitor is to support parents."...

"One program in the state is aimed at pregnant teens, and another at families with at-risk children. One newer program that Pillow-Price calls very promising is Following Baby Back Home. It connects families of newborns leaving the neonatal intensive care units with home-visit nurses...."

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/34566-1

PHOTO: Kathy Pillow-Price with the Arkansas

Home Visiting Network says home visits return

$7 to the state for every dollar invested, by

helping struggling parents with one of the world's

toughest jobs - raising kids.

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