How Home Visiting Helps:
Stories from the Field
There’s plenty of data showing how home visiting improves health outcomes for pregnant people and families with babies. But it’s also nice to hear directly from those involved. Scroll down for testimonials from families and the professionals who serve them.
Featured Home Visiting Stories
Alana, who is participating in the home visiting program at Nurse-Family Partnership, gives a shout out to her home visitor and shares how she is helping her on her motherhood journey.
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“We’re home visitors, of course we’re going to…”
The home visiting staff in the Parents As Teachers program at Human Services Association created this fun video in celebration of Home Visiting Day!
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Home Visiting Client Stories
How Home Visiting Works: Stories From the Field in South Los Angeles
“Being in Welcome Baby was a refresher for me, even though this was my fourth child.”
Home visiting support may be especially helpful for first-time parents, but there’s plenty to learn with each pregnancy — and all expecting families can use a little extra support. Shamnikeya shares how she benefited from home visiting support.
“She Lifts Me Up”: A New Mom Finds Strength in Home Visiting
Even though she felt some trepidation about having a stranger come to her home, Eniya signed up for the Healthy Families America home visiting program at Child and Family Guidance Center. Soon after, she met her Home Visitor Alisha. Hear about the impact her home visitor had on her life.
Looking for Guidance, Family Turns to Welcome Baby
As first-time parents looking to give their child a healthy start, Cristina and Miguel enrolled in a home visiting program through MemorialCare Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach. Hear them share about their experience.
Fourth-Time Mom Finds Value in Home Visiting
Days after Luz was discharged from the hospital, Lorena — a Parent Educator with the Parents as Teachers home visiting program at Child Care Resource Center in the San Fernando Valley — met Luz and Tony at their home. This was the start of their home visiting journey. Learn about their experience.
New Mom Describes Welcome Baby Benefits as “Truly Amazing”
Through it all, Home Visitors become trusted partners, and families know they can turn to them for just about anything. Such was the case for Jocelyn Velez, a first-time mother who participated in the Welcome Baby program through Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. Hear her share her #HomeVisitingStory.
How #HomeVisitingWorks: Melissa and Lauriel Share Their Experience
Looking back on being pregnant, Melissa recalls having mixed emotions. “I was really worried about having postpartum depression again like I did with my first son,” she says. But when she gave birth she learned at the hospital that she could receive free home visiting services. And that support has helped her and her family in many ways. Hear her #HomeVisitingStory.
Home Visiting Staff Testimonials
Monica Charles, Senior Data Analyst at LA Best Babies Network shares a message for Home Visiting Day.
Terrie Ruiz, Public Health Research Associate and Training Coordinator at LA Best Babies Network shares why home visiting works.
Sharlene Gozalians, LA Best Babies Director, shares a message for home visiting staff.
Irene Perez Ramirez, Data Manager for the Welcome Baby program at St. Mary’s Medical Center, who was also a home visiting client, shares how the program provided breastfeeding support.
Sandra Martinez, Program Specialist for the Welcome Baby program at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, explains what families can expect from this home visiting program.
Martha Abarza, Program Supervisor for the Healthy Families America Program at the Child and Family Guidance Center, shares about the benefits of the home visiting program.
Lydia Rojas Cardoza, Outreach Specialist with the Welcome Baby program at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, talks about what home visiting can offer families.
Catherine Chavez, Parent Educator for the Parents as Teachers program at The Whole Child, talks about why home visiting helps families.
Amie Aguiar, Communications Specialist at LA Best Babies Network, shares how you can connect, or help families get connected, to free home visiting services.