Few social programs can boast of professional, highly qualified, specially trained staff who are experienced in providing home based care coordination services to high risk pregnant women and their infants. Even fewer have demonstrated multi-generational outcomes that benefit society economically and reduce long-term social service expenditures. The Right From The Start Project (RFTS) is such a program, committed to producing enduring improvements in the health and well being of low-income parents and their infants. This voluntary home visiting preventive health focused program is delivered by educated and experienced registered nurses and licensed social workers known as Designated Care Coordinators (DCCs).
One
of the Partnership's goals is to increase in-home visiting for West
Virginia families. We will work with
Right From the Start and other
in-home visiting programs to increase the number and percentage of expectant
and new families that are provided in home advice and education related to
pregnancy and newborn care.