Upholding Our Families and Children Preserves Our Future

The Home Visiting Policy Network

The Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Act of 2010 moved the practice of parents reaching out for validation in providing their children with the best possible outcomes in life.  For years, parents seeking to refine their natural parenting skills have utilized the comradery of trained peers and professionals to successfully navigate the intricacies and challenges of rearing children − home visiting. 

The Home Visiting Policy Network (HVPN) is first, an in-house commitment to ensure advocacy and practice in the home visiting field becomes even more robust in the immediate future. Secondly, the HVPN provides home visitors and organizations with the necessary support to consistently and effectively carry out their missions as service providers.

Bridging the Gaps

The Bridging the Gaps Initiative seeks to directly affront this rising tide in youth deaths.  This undertaking is specifically targeted at preserving the lives of the next generation through engaging in efforts to reduce all forms of child maltreatment but especially child abuse and neglect fatalities.  As well, we work to understand and combat youth runaway and homelessness, drug abuse (opioids, synthetics, etc.), child sex trafficking, and gun violence.  

DDG is especially proud of our work we are doing with LIFECOURT© in revamping the way child protection is implemented.  Through our work on the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities, DDG has been able to assist communites in new approaches to protecting our most vulnerable children and families.

The Education Enhancement Project

The Education Enhancement Project currently focuses on two areas in the classroom experience − Communication and Acceleration.  These enhancements are bedrock for consistent and increased high performance in the classroom.  Children who excel in communication skills and who are thoughtfully challenged, remain engaged and motivated to achieve at higher levels. Recent developments on the importance of early childhood education and college readiness, only help underscore other facets of the educational process that contribute to our children’s ability to maximize their classroom learning experiences. Through demographically sensitive designed programming, the Educational Enhancement Project is able to provide children with access to another exciting level of education with no monetary cost to their families.