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Home visiting advocates urge $355k–$365k state match to preserve federal funds for Rhode Island families
Summary
Community health workers and program directors told the House Finance subcommittee that modest state funding would unlock significantly larger federal MIECHV awards that support home visiting programs for new parents and at-risk infants; witnesses gave specific match amounts and warned that programs were closing without state support.
Three witnesses representing home visiting and early-childhood programs asked the House Finance subcommittee to add state matching funds so Rhode Island can draw down federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) dollars.
"If Rhode Island invests just $365,000 in the state funding, we can secure over a million dollars in total funding to support, and keep these essential programs running," Swanette Salazar, a community health worker with the First Connections program at Family Service Rhode Island, said in testimony.
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