Home-Visit Advocates Tout Addiction Treatment Success In Efforts To Get MIECHV Funding Renewed

Advocates for the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program are touting the program's success in helping people with addiction as they lobby lawmakers to fund the program another five years in an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress is supposed to pass by Jan. 19. MIECHV is one of the many health programs and policies, collectively called the extenders, that have run out of federal funding or expired. Lobbyists previously tried to get them attached to funding for the...