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The Business Case for Home Visiting

The Business Case for Home Visiting. Partnership for America’s Economic Success Jim Zimmerman, Success By 6 ®. Our Region was at Crisis Proportions . High rates of infant mortality and low birth weights Dental, vision, and hearing problems linked to kindergarten readiness

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The Business Case for Home Visiting

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  1. The Business Case for Home Visiting Partnership for America’s Economic Success Jim Zimmerman, Success By 6®

  2. Our Region was at Crisis Proportions • High rates of infant mortality and low birth weights • Dental, vision, and hearing problems linked to kindergarten readiness • Over half of our counties’ 68,000 children aged 0-5 were not prepared for kindergarten

  3. Community Imperative Kindergarten readiness is the most important priority for school success and the state’s long term economic health.

  4. Meeting the Challenge • Best practice home visitation • Quality early childhood education

  5. Our Experience with Home Visitation – Every Child Succeeds • Started with public and private funding • Delivers home visitation with collaboration of 15 provider agencies in 7 counties in 2 states • Serves first-time mothers and babies, enrolling prenatally through 3 months of age, continues until age 3 • Served 17,000 families with 345,000 visits since 1999 • Utilized and compared different models and curriculums • Recognized for results and continuous quality improvement strategies

  6. Our Experience with Home Visitation – Every Child Succeeds (results FY2010) • 89% infants born at healthy weight and gestational age (children enrolled 60%less likely to die as infants) • 99% children have a medical home • 95% children develop age-expected language skills • 92% parents’ interactions with child are positive • 97% homes contain adequate learning materials • 96% parents actively involved in children’s learning • 57% depressed mothers improved by year one • 69% mothers involved in school or work

  7. Return On Investment Is Strong Policymakers should invest in young children, where the return on investment is the strongest.Nobel Laureate Economist James Heckman

  8. Brain growth versus public expenditures on children ages 0-18 Source: Rand Corporation 90 percent of public expenditures occur after age five, after 90% of brain development has occurred.

  9. Ohio General Revenue Fund Spending

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