The Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals, an organization focused on strengthening home visiting and human service programs across the country, collaborated with nonprofit partners and elected officials to organize the event. NHVW garnered bipartisan support as U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R–Iowa) and Mark Warner (D–Virginia) issued a proclamation to highlight the importance of home visiting.
Making Home Visiting Week official in Colorado, Governor Polis issued the proclamation for it on April 10, 2025.
More information about home visiting here in Colorado:
- Parent Possible Home Visiting Conference 2025−Rooted in Resilience: April 30–May 1, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Aurora-Denver Conference Center. Register here.
- Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s National Home Visitor Appreciation Week information with many resources
- Colorado Home Visiting Coalition website: https://cohomevisiting.org/
- Home Visiting Investment Task Force Information: The Home Visiting Investment Task Force, on which Lesa Nesbit, Buell Foundation Senior Program Officer, Supervisor, is a member, was approved by the ECLC on April 23, 2020 to develop a strategy to scale a continuum of home visiting services in Colorado and guide the release of the future funding solicitations from the Office of Early Childhood, including Federal MIECHV funding. The strategy supports planning for state budget requests, the solicitation of new federal funding opportunities, and alignment with philanthropic funding for home visiting.
The task force released a Home Visiting Investment Task Force Annual Progress Report in October 2024 that is available here.
The last full week of April is now officially reserved for National Home Visiting Week for years to come to celebrate and recognize home visitors and the positive impact they make on maternal and child health outcomes.
