TO: The 61 ​local health jurisdictions (LHJs), including the Directors; Local Health Officers; Deputy Health Officers; and Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) and California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) Directors

CC: California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and state MCAH leadership, and representatives from the County Health Executives Association of California (CHEAC) and the California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO)​​

Please share t​​his email as needed. If someone is missing that should be included, please let us know as soon as possible by emailing the CHVP mailbox at CA-MCAH-HomeVisiting@cdph.ca.gov. Please do not reply all to this message. 

Good afternoon,

​This notice is to announce the release of the California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) State General Fund (SGF) Innovation 2.0 Request for Supplemental Information (RS​​I). The California Department of Public Health (CDPH)/California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) is offering a small number of awards to local health jurisdictions (LHJs) to implement innovative early childhood home visiting programs or projects with a focus on meeting the need of a locally identified population facing the greatest inequities in health and social outcomes. Projects must support a model that uses home visiting as a primary strategy for providing services to pregnant people and/or children from birth to kindergarten entry. 

Submissions for the Innovation 2.0 RSI will be accepted for proposed projects in the categories of evidence-informed home visiting programs and evidence-based home visiting models not currently administered by CDPH/CHVP. CHVP will review and prioritize funding for project proposals from LHJs that do not receive any other CHVP funding to support access to these important services across the state. The four counties that do not receive CHVP funding are Alpine, Imperial, Placer, and Trinity. If these counties submit a project proposal that aligns with the parameters of this RSI, they will be awarded funding. All other project proposals will be reviewed and scored. The highest scoring (out of 100 available points) submissions will receive funds up to the total available funding for this RSI. 

Attached are the CHVP INNV 2.0 RSI and CHVP SGF INNV RSI 2.0 Submission Template. Please review each document carefully for further information related to priorities for funding, eligibility criteria, and submission instructions. 

CDPH/CHVP will host a voluntary technical assistance webinar related to the RSI on October 13, 2023, at 1 pm. Questions will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on October 20, 2023. Send your questions to CA-MCAH-HomeVisiting@cdph.ca.gov and write “CHVP Innovation RSI Question" in the subject line. Questions will be answered via CHVP Memo sent by e-mail no later than October 27, 2023.

​​​​Key Dates 

​Thank you, 

California Home Visiting Program
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
CA Department of Public Health​

Attachments: 

• ​​Req​uest for S​uppl​​ementa​l Information​
• Request for Supplemental Information Submission​ Form (PDF)​