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Evaluating Home Visiting Programs: State and Local Examples

Find State and local examples on evaluation home visitation programs.

Breaking the Cycle: How Home Visiting Can Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect and Prevent Crime in New York State (PDF - 733 KB)
Warner, Christeson, & Shaefer (2012)
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids New York
Discusses child maltreatment and its connection to the perpetration of future crime and how evidence-based home-visiting services to at-risk children and families can help reduce the occurrence of child abuse and neglect and likelihood of future criminality. The report highlights the use of home-visiting programs in New York and importance of continued funding for these services.

Breaking the Cycle: How Home Visiting Can Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect and Prevent Crime in Nevada (PDF - 545 KB)
Warner, Christeson, & Shaefer (2012)
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
Discusses the use of evidence-based home-visiting programs in Nevada to reduce child abuse and neglect and prevent future crime. The report highlights the cost efficiency of these programs and the need to leverage Federal funding to maintain, improve, and expand on these services.

Comparison of Primiparous and Multiparous Mothers: Healthy Families Program Participation, Outcomes, Challenges, and Adaptations, FY 1999-FY 2010 (PDF - 316 KB)
Galano & Huntington (2012)
Pew Center for the States
Presents an analysis and comparison of the participation and outcomes of mothers of multiple children and first-time mothers in Healthy Families home-visiting programs in Virginia to examine the idea that first-time mothers would benefit more from these services than mothers with previous children. Study outcomes are addressed and areas in need of additional research are identified.

Evaluation of Maternal and Child Home Visitation Programs: Lessons From Pennsylvania (PDF - 1,219 KB)
Matone, Curtis, Chesnokova, Yun, Kreider, Curtis, et al. (2013)
Discusses the lessons learned from an evaluation of the Pennsylvania Nurse-Family Partnership program and describes the strategies used to address some of the challenges tied to real-world program evaluation

Final Report: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Home Visiting Services in Promoting Children's Adjustment in School (PDF - 689 KB)
Kirkland & Mitchell-Herzfeld (2012)
Examines the effects of a strengths-based home visiting program, Healthy Families New York, which was based on Healthy Families America, on the academic adjustment of children following their transition to school.

Final Report: A Randomized Trial of Healthy Families New York (HFNY): Does Home Visiting Prevent Child Maltreatment? (PDF - 599 KB)
New York State Office of Children and Family Services & University at Albany, State University of New York (2010)
Presents findings from a 7-year study to evaluate the effectiveness of a State-administered home visitation program in preventing child maltreatment and risks for delinquency.

Initial Findings From a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts: Early Program Impacts on Young Mothers' Parenting (PDF - 576 KB)
Easterbrooks, Jacobs, Bartlett, Goldberg, Contreras, Kotake, Raskin, et al. (2013)
Tufts University
Evaluates the effectiveness of Healthy Families Massachusetts (HFM), a statewide child maltreatment prevention home-visiting program for first-time young parents, and examines the program's impact on child maltreatment and parenting in a sample of young mothers of infants and toddlers. This study investigates how characteristics of young mothers, their environments, and their participation in home-visiting services determine the program’s efficacy and affect participant outcomes.

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