Home Visiting

Home visiting programs offer a variety of family-focused services to expectant parents and families with new babies and young children. They address issues such as maternal and child health, positive parenting practices, safe home environments, and access to services. Use the following resources to learn more about home visiting, selected programs, planning and implementation, evaluation efforts, and more.

• Programs
• Planning and implementation
• Evaluation
• Maternal Mental Health

Creating a National Home Visiting Research Network
Duggan, Minkovitz, Chaffin, Korfmacher, Brooks-Gunn, Crowne, Filene, et al. (2013)
Pediatrics,132(2)
Examines Home Visiting Research Network's (HVRN's) rationale, approach, and anticipated products related to its goal of translating research findings into policy and practice. In this article, HVRN creates the infrastructure for a rigorous program of research to inform policy and practice on home visiting as part of the system of services to improve family functioning, parenting, and child outcomes.

Federal Investment in Home Visiting
Pew Center on the States
Summarizes the home visiting provision in the Affordable Care Act, links to guidance and supporting materials, and describes the Center's home visiting campaign.

Health Reform and Maternal Child Health: Home Visiting
National Association of County and City Health Officials
Links to information on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and other materials useful to cities and counties implementing home visiting services.

Home Visit Forum
Harvard Family Research Project
Seeks to increase delivery efficiency, develop practice benchmarks to improve quality, and create a better understanding of the role home visiting plays in State and national systems to help young children and their families. The project is led by a consortium of administrators, practitioners, and researchers from six home visiting programs.

Home Visitation and Maltreatment Prevention
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Offers articles, publications, and current research being conducted to support child maltreatment prevention and home visitation initiatives.

Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Presents the results of a research review that assessed home visiting program models designed for families with pregnant women and children up to age 5. The website provides program model reports, outcome domain reports, implementation profiles, a study search tool, and more.

Pew Inventory of State Home Visiting Programs
Pew Center on the States
Provides State-by-State and national snapshots of home visiting programs, models, and funding.

Solving Social Ills Through Early Childhood Home Visiting
Pew Charitable Trusts (2013)
Presents 12 studies highlighting gains in education, health and future livelihoods at less cost to taxpayers through home visiting.

Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment
Daro (2012)
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Reviews of how home-visiting grantees in 15 states conduct collaborative planning efforts to leverage other existing Federal, State, and local funding sources into evidence-based home-visiting programs and practices and build the necessary infrastructure for the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of the programs.