The Home-Based Care for Young Children (HBYC) program is a joint initiative between the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Women and Child Development. It aims to fill the gap in home visits by ASHAs to infants after 42 days by providing additional visits between 3-15 months. Under HBYC, ASHAs/AWWs will conduct quarterly home visits when the child is 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15 months old to promote child nutrition, immunization, development, and reduce morbidity and mortality through health education. The program goals are to encourage appropriate feeding practices, ensure timely immunization, support optimal development, and teach health seeking behaviors.

1. HOME BASED CARE
FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
(HBYC)

2. This is a Joint initiative of Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare and Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Under National Health Mission, Home-Based Care for Young
Child Programme (HBYC) is rolled out as an extension of the
Home Based New Born Care programme (HBNC) which is
currently implemented across the country.
Under HBNC, home visits by ASHAs to the infants ends at
42nd day after birth and there exists a gap in the household
contact of ASHAs with the child beyond this period except the
ones for immunization.

3. Addressing this gap in health system contact is crucial.
Therefore, additional home visits by ASHAs between 3rd and
15th months were proposed under HBYC to fill this gap.
Under Home Based Care of Young Child (HBYC) programme,
the additional five home visits will be carried out by
ASHA/AWW, from 2-3 month onward
ASHAs/AWWs will provide quarterly home visits (3rd, 6th, 9th,
12th and 15th month). The quarterly home visits schedule for
low birth weight babies, SNCU & NRC discharges will now be
harmonized with the new HBYC schedule.

4. GOALS OF THE
PROGRAMME

5. 1.Promoting good CHILD NUTRITION by appropriate infant
and young child feeding practices.
*Early initiation of breast feeding within one hour of birth,
*Exclusive breast feeding for the first 6 months of life,
*Appropriate and adequate complementary feeding from 6
months of age with continuation of breastfeeding.

6. 2.Ensuring age appropriate immunization.
3.Ensuring optimal early childhood development.
4.Ensuring reduction in child morbidity and mortality by
appropriate health care seeking behaviour.
The purpose of the additional home visits by ASHAs/AWWs
are promotion of evidence based interventions delivered in
four key domains namely nutrition, health, child development
and WASH (water, sanitation & hygiene).

7. Key tasks at various ages of the
child that will be performed by
ASHA and AWW

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