California considers investing $100 million in-home visits for new moms and their babies [SCPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/17/173:57 PM

A bill working its way through the state legislature would create a state-funded program to help new mothers in the first few months and years after the birth of their children.

The CalWORKs Baby Wellness and Family Support Home Visiting Program would spend $100 million to offer home visits from nurses or social workers to new mothers who are living in poverty.

Support for home visiting programs is grounded in research that has found regular postpartum home visits can improve the health of both mothers and their babies, prevent child abuse and neglect, support positive parenting and promote healthy child development and school readiness.

[For more of this story, written by Bonnie Petrie, go to http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/...100-million-in-home/]

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