Home Visitors:

 

• Provide in-home visitation until the child enters school or turns five years of age. 

• Enhance parent-child interaction and provide parents with information on child development.

• Provide education in maternal and child health care, including prenatal, breastfeeding, immunizations, and lead screening.

• Provide fun, educational activities for children.

• Arrange for periodic developmental screening.

• Refer children with developmental delays or other problems for professional evaluation (with parents' permission).

 

Requirements

• Must be first or second-time mothers or fathers.

• Must enroll prenatally or before the infant turns three months of age. 

 

Benefits:

   For School Readiness:

• 50% reduction in likelihood to repeat first grade

• 70% increase in likelihood of scoring above grade level in first
  grade on three behaviors that promote learning

• 26% reduction in receipt of special education services by age seven

• 23% reduction in below average scores for receptive vocabulary for
  children of young, first-time mothers who enrolled in the program early

• An increase in the percentage of girls who scored above grade level academically

   For Social & Emotional Development: 

• 88% reduction in the average number of acts of very serious physical abuse at age one

• 75% reduction in the average number of acts of serious physical abuse at age two

• 80% reduction in the average number of acts of serious physical abuse at age seven

• 49% reduction in rate of confirmed CPS reports between ages five and seven, for children
  born to young, first-time moms

   For Health 

• HFNY has shown the following outcomes: 48 percent reduction in mothers having low
  birth weight babies.​