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Help Me Grow supporters ask committee to keep governor’s home-visiting expansion intact
Summary
Every Child Succeeds and other witnesses urged the House Children and Human Services Committee to preserve the governor’s proposed expansion of Help Me Grow home-visiting services, which the governor budgeted at about $63.59 million for fiscal 2026 to serve roughly 19,200 families.
Representatives from Every Child Succeeds, home visitors and program alumni urged the House Children and Human Services Committee to retain the governor’s proposed expansion of Help Me Grow home-visiting services.
Dr. Jennifer Frey, president and CEO of Every Child Succeeds, called home visiting for prenatal-to-age-3 families “the most cost effective means” of improving long-term education, health and economic outcomes. She told members that the governor proposed about…
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