Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (GP-TMIECHV)

Great Plains Tribal Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting (GP-TMIECHV) is a five-year grant that provides home visits to eligible families in the Rapid City/Pennington County area and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. This includes expectant mothers, parents, family members, and/or other caregivers of children ages 0 to 5 years old. This is a voluntary home visitation program designed to work and provide parents with health & life skills education, social support, and referrals to community resources & services, home safety, and positive parenting. 

Tribal Home Visiting Goals:

• Support the development of happy, healthy, and successful American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through a coordinated home visiting strategy that addresses critical maternal and child health, development, early learning, family support, and child abuse and neglect prevention needs.
• Implement high-quality, culturally-relevant, evidence-based home visiting programs in AIAN communities.
• Expand the evidence base around home visiting interventions with Native populations.
• Support and strengthen cooperation and coordination and promote linkages among various early childhood programs, resulting in coordinated, comprehensive early childhood systems.

Staff

• Terri Rattler, Program Manager
• Sunshine Pond, Program Support Assistant 

*Tribal MIECHV is supported by funds from the Administration for Children and Families (HHS-2023-ACF-OCC-TH-0076-01-00) and was awarded to the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board.