The Home Visiting Central Intake Bulletin
Central Intake e-newsletter for Home Visiting providers
March 2021
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Welcome back to another edition of the The Home Visiting Central Intake Bulletin! This email will provide you with Help Me Grow Central Intake data and updates relevant to Home Visiting so you are informed and prepared to serve families.
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SFY21 Second Quarter Referral Data
(October- December 2020)
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Central Intake and Referral processed 8,698 system referrals between
October-December 2020. A referral breakdown is below:
- Caregivers (8.1%);
- HEA8045 forms (12.1%) submitted by Home Visiting providers, as well as WIC offices, and other community agencies;
- Medical professionals (16.9%);
- Non-medical community (50.2%) including WIC, community agencies, county agencies, and e-PRAF referrals; and
- PCSA 8021 forms (12.7%) submitted by Children’s Services.
Of those system referrals, 5,038 were for pregnant women with an average gestational age of 21.8 weeks.
There were 3,089 families who accepted Home Visiting services in OCHIDS. Almost 59 percent of the referrals accepting Home Visiting services were for pregnant women, and more than 49 percent of those women were first-time moms.
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Note: Numbers based on ODH data received by Bright Beginnings on 1/21/2021. |
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Community Resource Directories |
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Help Me Grow has launched a new interactive Community Resource Directories on helpmegrow.org! The 88 county directories are now hosted on an online platform that can be updated in real time, so families and professionals access the most current provider information in their area.
The new directories are also ADA compliant. Users can now search for providers by service area, category, county, keyword, or zip code.
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Overall statewide outreach included more than 2,400 activities in the second quarter of SFY21! Outreach staff continue to make every effort to contact professional referral sources and identify ways to engage families throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing Help Me Grow and Home Visiting materials to immunization clinics as they emerge.
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A New Year’s email was sent on January 5 to more than 8,000 referral sources. The email contained family testimonials for both Home Visiting and Early Intervention, an explanation of Central Intake and Referral, and information highlighting the importance of the Help Me Grow system of supports for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to access the email.
Central Intake and Referral continued advertising in regional parent magazines that are distributed in grocery stores throughout Ohio and in digital formats online. Ads were also purchased on LaMega Media radio stations and featured in LaNota, which is distributed to Ohio’s Hispanic populations monthly. Digital ads were also featured on LaMega's website and social media pages.
Home Visiting television spots run during kids’ programming on PBS stations, and radio spots continue to air on NPR stations. Both of these efforts will continue to the end of SFY21, along with digital display ads, social media ads, and ads placed on pharmacy bags and hand sanitation stations in local stores.
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Coming Soon: Updated Marketing Materials
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The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is in the process of printing newly updated Home Visiting rack cards and brochures. These materials will be available to order soon through ODH. Stay tuned! |
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Benefits of Home Visiting Kits |
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Physicians often need support and tools to ensure families get connected to community resources outside of the medical setting.
Enter the Benefits of Home Visiting kits!
These kits will provide resources that reinforce the practice of offering Home Visiting services to the families they serve and will, in turn, help providers address the maternal and infant health crises in Ohio.
The kit will include everything office and medical professionals need to refer their patients to Home Visiting, including:
- Information on the benefits of Home Visiting
- Poster for office or waiting rooms;
- Tear-off posters for families;
- Referral cards;
- Magnets with how-to-refer messaging;
- Promotional items with the Help Me Grow logo; and
- Other related information that would be helpful to families.
Kits are in the final stages of preparation and coordination, and Central Intake regional partners will be distributing the kits to OB/GYN offices across the state during the fourth quarter.
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FY22-23 Executive Budget Proposal |
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Governor Mike DeWine released his executive budget proposal outlining his priorities for the
FY22-23 state biennial budget. The proposal includes:
- An additional $1.9 million investment in Home Visiting across two years.
- Sustained investment in Early Intervention.
- New $2.25 million investment to support pregnant women in securing housing.
- Continued investments from the Ohio Department of Medicaid in programs that support moms and babies.
- Additional $5.5 million in FY22 for grants to faith- and community-based providers working to improve outcomes for pregnant moms and babies.
- and more...
To gain a better understanding of what this means for the early childhood community, visit Groundwork Ohio's breakdown of Ohio's biennial budget process below.
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Refer to Early Intervention |
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Families can receive both Home Visiting and Early Intervention services!
If you are currently serving a young child and there is a concern about the child's development, make a referral for Early Intervention!
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Early Intervention Family Testimonial |
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"The staff, including the physical therapist, Paula, and the case manager, Heidi, have been so helpful and knowledgeable! Not only did we receive information on our son's condition to better understand it, but we were given exercises with each session to help our little guy strengthen his core, work on his balance, etc. Paula, Heidi, and the team also gave us tips on how to help our son eat more independently, potty train, and address challenging behaviors.
It is truly wonderful to see our little guy now running, jumping, climbing and eating more independently in just one year! Thank you for all that your program has done!"
-Jessica and Jeff, from Northeast Ohio
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