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April 22, 2025
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Governor Walz has declared this week, April 21-25, as Home Visitor Appreciation Week in Minnesota. Read more about this in our news release.
Your work does not go unrecognized. We appreciate you for all that you do for children and families across Minnesota. Thank you to our home visitors and home visiting teams!
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Reflections from a grantee
Home visiting is….
RELATIONSHIP based teaching, that allows us to learn and grow together.
Parenting alongside our families, helping to shape a healthier family as a whole.
I am very fulfilled with the work I do as a home visitor. I feel my day-to-day work has a lasting impact for individual families and as a whole for our community.
What a privilege it is be welcomed in and to walk alongside a family, supporting them during one of the most vulnerable times in a parents’ life.
-- Shana Wall, Kandiyohi County public health nurse
The words that, to you, describe home visitors…
Evaluation
Coming soon! The 2024 Strong Foundations Grantee Feedback Report
The Strong Foundations year-end grantee feedback reports for year 2 are ready and will be sent to grantees soon! This report covers children and family screening and referral measures, demographic characteristics, and implementation activities that occurred Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2024. The reports will be emailed to the contact who submitted the Strong Foundations progress monitoring report in January 2025. Please email the evaluation mailbox with questions: health.FHVdata@state.mn.us.
Quarterly invoices due yesterday
Reminder that family home visiting and TANF grantees invoices for January-March 2025 expenditures were due yesterday, April 21. If you have not already, please submit them to health.fhvgrants@state.mn.us.
Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinar available online
The April 2025 Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar "Birth Intervention Bias and Breastfeeding" presented by Taniah Ingram CBD, CBE, CBS, is available for online viewing. New and existing Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinars can be viewed on-demand at glbw.thinkific.com.
This week is National Infant Immunization Week
National Infant Immunization Week is a great time to talk about the importance of immunizations in protecting newborns, infants, and children from vaccine-preventable diseases. As trusted messengers, family home visitors can begin the conversation even before pregnancy so that families have time to consider how vaccination during pregnancy provides crucial protection during baby’s first vulnerable months of life. Start with listening: ask open-ended questions to learn more about their concerns, show empathy, acknowledge uncertainty, and request permission before sharing information about vaccine safety, benefits, and effectiveness. By listening and showing understanding, family home visitors can help parents make informed choices about vaccination. Take Becoming Trusted Messengers, a free online course, to learn more.
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