The Nurse-Family Partnership is a type of home visitation program. Section 2951 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes a grant provision for early-childhood home visitation programs that promote improved maternal, prenatal, infant and child health.

Section 399V promotes healthy lifestyles and uses grants and education to support community health workers -- including those working for home visitation services.

Obama's budget blueprint calls for $8.5 billion over the next 10 years to create a nurse home visitation program, "which will provide funds to States to provide home visits by trained nurses to first-time low-income mothers and mothers-to-be." The budget also "builds the foundation for a program that could ultimately serve all eligible mothers who seek services."