Home Based Care for Young Child Program

After the success of the Home-Based Newborn Care Programme, which has proved that home visits can support parents and caregivers to provide nurturing care for newborn. It paves way for extending this platform for delivering services from multiple sectors play across to protect, promote and support early childhood development and create an enabling environment.

In this regard, GoI decided to expand the home visits by ASHA, ANM and AWW into second year of life. This will also serve as a link to Swachh Bharat Mission by improving the hand washing practices in the community and increasing awareness about hygiene.

The objective of Home-Based Care for Young Child is to reduce child mortality and morbidity and improve nutrition status, growth, prevent childhood illness (such as diarrhea & pneumonia) and early childhood development of young children through structured, focused and effective home visits by ASHAs. ASHA will provide additional home visits to children upto the age of 15 months .

ASHA will visit (both Home delivery and Institutional Delivery) – Months – 3, 6,9,12 & 15