Family Resource Centers and In Home Family Education
Family Resource Centers bring together existing services in a single location
such as a school or other neighborhood building. This comprehensive approach
increases the accessibility of services, brings resources together in one place,
provides family support and education, and allows the Centers to meet the
community's needs. Our Family Resource Centers serve families pre-natal through
age eighteen. Each Center offers a variety of services to reflect the diversity
of the community needs. Visit the Child Abuse Prevention page for more information on the various Family Resource Centers across the state.
FRC Coordinators at our October 2011 Core FRC Training in Charleston, WV
In Home Family Education Programs are voluntary home visiting programs that include
Parents as Teachers, Healthy Families America, and Maternal Infant Health
Outreach Workers. Each delivers a range of supportive services to families with
young children. Each program relies on home visiting staff to establish a
supportive relationship with the families, provide a range of educational
services, and link families to needed supportive services in the community. For
more information and to find specific programs, click here.
The Bureau for Children and Families also works closely with the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visitation (MIECHV) Program. Designated by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin as the agency to receive the Affordable Care Act home visitation dollars, the Office of Maternal Child and Family Health (OMCFH) in the Department manages this grant. More information on the WV Home Visitation Program can be found here.
