Rosemount Center provides Home-Based visiting services to families in Wards 1-8 of Washington, DC who have an income below the poverty guideline.

Our Home-Based Visitors conduct weekly 90-minute sessions, providing dual language (Spanish/English) education and support services to pregnant women and families with children ages 0 – 3 enrolled in Rosemount's Early Head Start Program. Each Home-Based Visitor has experience working with young children and their families and acts as a liaison and an advocate, referring families to essential community resources.

Our Home-Based Program aims to prepare young children and their families for future positive outcomes. Elements of the Home-Based Program are listed below:

• Rosemount's curriculum, "Parents as Teachers" is used in either English or Spanish when the Home-Based Visitor conducts a weekly home visit. It focuses on three main goals: Parent-Child Interactions; Development-Centered Parenting; and Family Well-Being.
• Families participate in monthly socializations, which provide the opportunity for families to interact with other Rosemount Center families and participate in informative workshops.
• Families are encouraged to attend the monthly Policy Council Meetings, allowing parents to take part in the Early Head Start Program governance decisions.
• Collaborative family partnership agreements focus on developing goals for both children and their families and include the expectations of being an Early Head Start program participant.
• Monitoring and educating parents on their child's overall well-being includes age appropriate immunizations, annual physicals, identifying disabilities, and nutritional needs.
• Home-Based Visitors facilitate referrals to a variety of human services agencies that provide crisis intervention and urgent resources.
• Home-Based Visitors serve as a liaison for pregnant women by assisting and providing pregnant women access to comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care concerning health, nutrition and mental health.
• Expectant mothers receive new cribettes through the DC Health Safe Sleep Program and are provided with training focused on safe sleep and SIDS prevention for infants.
• Home-Based Visitors maintain strict confidentiality of private information and family records.
• Rosemount has years of experience providing Home-Based program services to children and their families who seek a high quality child development experience and guidance on parenting skills.