The Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visitation (MIECHV) was created by a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. The MIECHV program as a Healthy Families America (HFA) affiliate utilizes its evidence-based model.
MIECHV provides intensive home visitation services to new and expectant families to strengthen the parent and child relationship, encouraged healthy child growth and development and nurture parents in their role as the child’s first teacher and prevent child abuse and neglect.
The MIECHV program seeks to:
- Improved maternal and newborn health;
- Prevention of child injuries, child abuse, neglect, or maltreatment, and reduction of emergency department visits;
- Improvement in school readiness and achievement;
- Reduction in crime or domestic violence;
- Improvements in family economic self-sufficiency; and
- Improvements in the coordination and referrals for other community resources and supports.
MIECHV is a voluntary program for prenatal women or mothers with newborns who reside in Wapello or Appanoose Counties.
MIECHV is operational and offering Virtual Home Visits during the pandemic. There are openings, please call 641-799-4182.
Contact Us
Wapello County
725 W Second Street
Ottumwa, IA 52501
Appanoose County
111 N Main St, Suite #1
Centerville, IA 52554
