Reaching Homeless Children Ages 0-5 Through Home Visiting

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Reaching Homeless ChildrenAges 0-5Through Home
Visiting

• Presented by
• Sarah Benjamin
• Eastern Suffolk BOCES
• Long Island, New York

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WHO?

• 1/50 children experience homelessness each year
• 1.5 Million
• 42 of these children are under the age of five
• (National Center on Homelessness
  and Poverty 2004)

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WHAT?

• Early Head Start-Home Visiting
• Healthy Families America (HFA)
• Healthy Steps
• Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool
  Youngsters (HIPPY)
• Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)
• Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP)
• Parents As Teachers (PAT)

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Where?

• Shelter bunk or floor
• Motel bed
• Backyard
• Campground
• Car
• Laundromat
• Corner of a basement

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When?

• Anytime of the morning
• Afternoon
• Early Evening
• NOW!

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WHY?Home Visiting the Homeless

• What is a home?
• Even the most humble home can be a place of rest,
  a place to regroup, to find peace and security a
  door closed to the world and a roof to keep the
  weather out a place to gather ourselves in life.
• What happens when this is lost?
• It needs to be replaced with an authentic
  relationship!

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