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Home Visitation Programs

Healthy Start Corps ( 910-737-4090)
The Healthy Start Corps works to decrease the infant mortality rate in Robeson County. The program provides participants with a linkage for referrals to case management services. Registered nurses, social workers and community outreach workers provide these services.
The Healthy Start Corps also offers community health education programs to a variety of groups on numerous topics.

The goals of the Healthy Start Corps include:

• Decreaseing the rate of low birth weight babies
• Increasing prenatal care in the first three months of pregnancy
• Decreasing birth rates for teens
• Increaseing immunization rates of children up to age 2
• Decreasing number of premature babies
• Increasing care after birth of the baby
• Improving outreach and new client recruitment
• Increasing consumer participation in programs and services
  

Nurse Family Partnership (910-671-3268)
Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based, nurse home visiting program that improves the health, well being and self sufficiency of first-time, low-income parents and their children. NFP nurse home visitors work with their clients to achieve three important goals:

• Improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women engage in preventive health practices.
• Improve child health and development by helping parents provide responsible and competent care; and
• Improve economy self-sufficiency of the family by helping parents develop a vision for their own future, plan future pregnancies, continue their education and find work.

Program Elements

• Trained registered nurses
• Home visitation guidlines
• Voluntary enrollment of women that are at least 16 weeks pregnant
• Home visits from the time of enrollment until the child's 2nd birthday
• Involvement of mother’s support systems
• Assessnebt for other health and human services

Parents As Teachers (910-738-6767)
Parents As Teachers (PAT) is a nationally affiliated, respected family education and support program that believes that the parent is the child’s first and most important teacher and that all children are born to learn. This is a voluntary and free service open to all children between the ages of birth to 5 residing in Robeson County. Services are provided to both English and Spanish speaking families. The PAT program is funded by Smart Start. Smart Start funds are administered at the local level through local nonprofit organizations such as the Robeson County Partnership for Children.

PAT consists of four main components:

• Personal Home Visits
• Parents Group Meeting
• Developmental Screenings

Postpartum Newborn Home Visitation (910-671-3200)
The Postpartum/Newborn Home Visitation program delivers health assessments, social support and educational services directly to the mom and baby in their home. A registered nurse will visit the home and follow up on the mother’s and infant’s health status and well-being. This program is available to all Medicaid-receiving postpartum mothers and their newborns. This service is provided at no cost. Non-Medicaid mothers and infants also receive this service through a grant funded by Smart Start. Appointments are necessary.