MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun
Location: Loudoun County, Virginia
Since 1994, INMED Partnerships for Children’s Loudoun County programs have served the most vulnerable children and families in the community where we have established our global headquarters.
The MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun program’s intensive, long-term home visiting and case management services are targeted toward helping families build a foundation for success, where the outcomes of our work are evident in stronger, more self-reliant families, a healthier community, and children who enter school ready to learn and succeed.
Our services begin during pregnancy or at birth, and are offered for up to five years, supporting the most critical years in a child's development. Home visits are conducted based on each family's needs—weekly during pregnancy and immediately after birth (or even more often for the highest-risk participants), then less frequently as families demonstrate increased skills and self-sufficiency.
Through the MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun program, each participating family is assigned to a bilingual and extensively trained family support worker. The family support worker provides long-term, one-on-one, in-home mentoring and guidance; education on healthy parenting and child development and emotional and practical support to achieve family-identified goals. As the need arises, the family support worker also facilitates families' access to other appropriate medical, social, educational, vocational, legal and/or crisis resources.
MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun works toward four major goals through a wide range of strategies and activities carried out by the family support workers:
- Promote positive parent-child interaction and positive parenting knowledge and behavior
- Prevent child abuse and neglect
- Promote optimal child development
- Achieve positive pregnancy outcomes and maternal and child health outcomes
