Where We Work

Loudoun County, Virginia

Strengthening Our Community, One Family at a Time

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. Locally, we work through four major service lines to support and strengthen vulnerable families and their children:

MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun, an intensive, long-term perinatal home visiting and case management program for families at highest risk for poor outcomes in child health, development and safety (established in 1994)
Parent education and support groups, covering topics such as perinatal health, parenting, and family violence prevention (established in 2003)
- September 2010 Calendar of Classes: English / Spanish
- Free Prenatal Class September 28^th: English / Spanish
- Father's Support Group: English / Spanish
Opening Doors, an intensive case management program to help pregnant women and families with young children in Loudoun County’s emergency homeless shelters and transitional housing facilities gain stability and achieve the self-sufficiency that will allow them to maintain permanent housing (established in 2008)
Family Homelessness Prevention, an intensive home-based case management program to prevent homelessness among low-income families at risk by connecting them to supportive services that help them maintain housing stability (established in 2009)

Priorities: Meeting Local Needs

Making sure that parents have the
education and support they need to give their babies, such as this little girl, the healthiest possible start in life is one of INMED’s primary goals.

Without duplicating existing community services, our local family-centered preventive services encompass a wide range of health and social factors, and are intended to significantly reduce the need for costly future intervention. Priority areas defined by community needs include:

Prenatal care and healthy birth outcomes
Infant and child health, including well-care and immunizations
Parenting education and support to prevent child abuse and neglect
Healthy relationships and strengthening families
School readiness, including regular developmental screening of infants and toddlers and family literacy activities
Teen repeat pregnancy prevention and educational achievement for teen parents
Perinatal and preventive health and nutrition education
Access to health care, mental health and social services
Individual and family capacity-building education and services
Emergency assistance and long-term goal setting and action plans to help families in crisis achieve stability
Referrals to other appropriate medical, social, educational, vocational and/or crisis resources

Outcomes: An Outstanding Record of Success

The successes achieved now through INMED’s Loudoun programs will have a far-reaching, positive impact on the health, lives and futures of participating children and families. Among our successes during the 2009 program year, for example, were the following:

100% of pregnant women/teens received adequate prenatal care.
95% of babies were born at healthy weights.
99% of children maintained a link to a primary care provider.
99% of children remained up-to-date on their immunizations.
99% of children were screened for developmental delays, and 100% of those with potential delays were referred to early intervention and monitored for follow-through.
100% of parents showed acceptable levels of parent-child interaction.
100% of families maintained optimal home environments to support child development.
No teen mothers had repeat births.
No families had founded reports of child abuse or neglect.
Of the 410 adults who took part in parent education groups, 92% demonstrated mastery of the topics addressed at the classes they attended.

In particular, as confirmed by an independent five-year evaluation report in 2008, the MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun home visiting program is among the top-performing of all 37 programs of its kind across Virginia. In addition, the program achieved an unprecedented record of technical excellence in meeting all of the 112 rigorous program, administration and safety standards of the Healthy Families program model in its credentialing review for 2007-2011.

Furthermore, in the 2008-2009 pilot year of the Opening Doors program, we helped 11 families move from the county’s emergency homeless shelter into transitional housing. All of these families have developed action plans to increase their stability and build the self-sufficiency necessary to secure permanent housing upon completion of the program. Of the families who have been enrolled more than six months, all have moved from crisis to stability in at least one critical area of their lives—including housing income, employment, child care, access to services, and social support networks.

With the support of our local partners, INMED’s Loudoun programs are working to improve the health, lives and opportunities of these children—and hundreds of others—across the county.

Contact Us:

INMED Partnerships for Children International Headquarters

20110 Ashbrook Place, Suite 260
Ashburn, Virginia 20147 USA
Telephone: 703 729 4951 ext. 218
Fax: 703 858 7253

For more information about INMED’s Loudoun County programs, contact: Maria Vasquez-Alvarez.