New River PAT/MIHOW

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New River PAT/MIHOW utilizes two evidence-based models within the program:

Parents as Teachers (PAT) helps strengthen communities by supporting and working with families to achieve the goal that every child is healthy, safe and ready to learn. The New River PAT Program matches parents and caregivers with trained professionals that make regular personal home visits during a child’s earliest years – from the prenatal period until the child enters Kindergarten.


Maternal Infant Health Outreach Workers Program (MIHOW) is a parent-to-parent intervention that targets families from pregnancy through the child’s third year of life. The program employs and trains parents to serve families in their own communities to encourage and support healthy lifestyles, positive parenting practices, and to help families understand and promote healthy child development. The oldest continually operating In-Home Family Education model in West Virginia is at New River Health, where MIHOW started in 1978.

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