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Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act

Floor Speech

By: Ron Estes
By: Ron Estes
Date: Sept. 26, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Family

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Madam Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 2824, the Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act.

We need more support for early childhood, and to support families in that effort. They need to be evidence-based programs to ensure that we get more of the right beneficial programs implemented.

This bill seeks to strengthen the home visiting services to families in at-risk communities, and that is important because it will help reduce infant abuse and neglect across America.

The law's six benchmark areas will improve maternal and newborn health and will increase families' economic self-sufficiency. It also looks to better the coordination between community resources.

I would like to thank Chairman Brady and Chairman Smith for putting forth this piece of legislation.

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