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YAKIMA, Wash. -- The West Valley School District’s Parent Child Home Program has received a grant from the state’s new Home Visiting Services Account.
It’s one of four programs in five counties that will share a total of $355,000.
The account matches public and private dollars to help support and evaluate evidence-based, research-based and promising home visiting programs.
Home visiting has been shown to help lessen the effects of poverty and other risk factors on child development and promote school readiness.
At the request of the state Department of Early Learning, Thrive by Five Washington, the state’s nonprofit public-private partnership for early learning, oversees the account.
To be eligible for a grant, organizations must show either a need for expansion or a critical need to sustain the level of service they already offered.
Awards are:
• Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s Nurse Family Partnership program, $100,000.
• Mason County Public Health Department’s Nurse Family Partnership, $100,000.
• Healthy Start/Friends of Youth’s Parents as Teachers Program, $100,000.
• West Valley School District’s Parent Child Home Program, $55,000.
For more information about Thrive by Five Washington, visit www.thrivebyfivewa.org.
-- Adriana Janovich
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