The health care reform bill included $1.5 billion to be dispersed over five years for programs known as "home visitation" -- services that employ nurses, social workers and other professionals who regularly visit low-income mothers and pregnant women in their homes to provide advice and support for their health and the healthy development of their babies and toddlers. Home visitation, when executed well, should be considered an integral part of strong early childhood education systems.
For this podcast, we talked with Lisa Schreiber, a policy consultant for Zero to Three, a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C. dedicated to children's earliest years, to hear more about the latest research on the impact of the programs and how they will be scaled up under the new law.
Early Ed Watch podcast -- April 30, 2010
What's Next in Expansion of Home Visitation
With our guest Lisa Schreiber, policy consultant for Zero to Three in Washington, D.C..
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