Contact: Heloise Jettison Hughes
(215) 977-8999
hhughes@healthfederation.org

Intensive Home Visitation Program: This is an intensive home-based program for pregnant and post-partum women and their children affected by HIV and substance abuse. Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team of social workers and child and family advocates. Interventions address health, nutrition, psychosocial and legal issues of participants. This program has been providing home-based services to Philadelphia families in need since 1991. Clients participate on a voluntary basis and all services are provided free of charge.

Program Eligibility:

To participate in the Intensive Home Visitation Program, individuals must be:

• Pregnant and/or parenting a child under the age of three
• HIV/AIDS infected and/or history of or current substance abuse and have one or more of the following risk factors:
  Chronic homelessness
  Mental health concerns
  Domestic violence
  History of high-risk pregnancy
  Child in out-of-home placement
  Recently released from prison
  Social isolation
  Lack of family/social support

Transitional Housing Supportive Case Management:

This program offers 12 to 24 months of home-based case management and counseling services to help families in transitional housing achieve permanent housing and self-sufficiency. Services are provided by a case management team working in collaboration with the housing agency staff. This program has been in operation since 1997.

Program Eligibility:

To participate in this program, clients must:

• meet the definition of homelessness established by the City of Philadelphia's Office of Emergency Shelter Service (OESS)

• be matched with a transitional housing program

• be referred to Family Centered Home Visitation Program at the Health Federation of Philadelphia

Both programs offer the following services:

• Home visits
• Case management
• Individual, family and group therapy by licensed social workers
• Child development assessments and referrals to early intervention programs
• Advocacy
• Assistance with permanency planning and other legal consultation provided through the Options Program, a collaboration with the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
• HIV support groups
• Psychoeducational groups
• Psycho-recreational activities for children ages six and above
• Career development assistance
• On-site access to the Maternal and Child Health Resources Center

More about Home Visiting Services:

Home Visiting at Community Health Centers