{"id":631613,"date":"2018-10-04T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=631613"},"modified":"2018-10-04T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:41:04","slug":"which-families-should-get-home-visits-the-state-cant-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/10\/which-families-should-get-home-visits-the-state-cant-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Which families should get home visits? The state can&#8217;t say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_631633\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-631633\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dju_20180713_Home_Visits_284-771x514.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Lind\" width=\"771\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dju_20180713_Home_Visits_284-771x514.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dju_20180713_Home_Visits_284-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dju_20180713_Home_Visits_284-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dju_20180713_Home_Visits_284-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dju_20180713_Home_Visits_284.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Don Usner \/ Searchlight New Mexico<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHI St. Joseph&#8217;s Children home visitor Amanda Lind, 30-month-old Lucas, Lucas&#8217; mother Christie Ross, and his sister Chloe play on their porch in Albuquerque during a home visit in July.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The state knows relatively little about the people served by its nearly three dozen contracted home visiting providers.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is there an answer to how many families the program should serve.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2015 Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) report, providers are not required to collect and report their families&#8217; income data or Medicaid status. And, in fact, most home-visiting programs eschew income requirements for participating families.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/searchlightnm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Searchlight New Mexico<\/a>, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to investigative journalism. Read its Raising New Mexico series\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/series\/raising-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by clicking here<\/a>. Support its work\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmatch.org\/organizations\/searchlight-new-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Related<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/10\/money-set-aside-for-home-visiting-program-not-being-spent-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Money set aside for home-visiting program not being spent there<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The 3,200 families served in 2018 represent less than a third of those that should be served, according to the LFC. But that&#8217;s just a guess, based on the size of Texas&#8217; program and guidelines from one of the state\u2019s best-regarded home visiting models.<\/p>\n<p>The LFC considers 50 percent of New Mexico&#8217;s low-income, first-time parents with children up to age 3 a &#8220;reasonable&#8221; goal. Serving that number, an estimated 11,500 families, would cost up to $44 million annually, the LFC reports.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico has been moving toward that goal for more than a decade, setting aside more and more state and federal dollars to fund home visiting. But child-care assistance still remains the largest and most developed part of CYFD&#8217;s suite of early childhood programs.<\/p>\n<p><i>John R. Roby can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:johnroby@searchlightnm.com\">johnroby@searchlightnm.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state knows relatively little about the people served by its nearly three dozen contracted home visiting providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[234,107],"class_list":["post-631613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children","tag-roundhouse","series-raising-new-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}