All Parent Educators provide parent education, advocacy, and support to parents. In addition, we focus on prevention of family violence, prevention and intervention for substance abuse, SIDS risk reduction, child nutrition, immunizations, child safety, developmental screening, and case management. All home visitors in the Maternal Child Health Home Visiting programs are supervised by an experienced public health nurse with a Masters in Public Health and Infant Toddler Maternal Health Graduate Certificate, who also serves a limited caseload. All parent educators (nurses and public health associates) are certified in and use the Parents As Teachers curriculum, and are.
