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3-210 - Taking Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Scale: Findings from State Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Evaluations

Sat, April 8, 4:30 to 6:00pm, Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 9C

Session Type: Poster Symposium

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Home visiting programs buffer the effects of risk factors and stress in the family and support positive health and development for children and families who participate (Avellar & Supplee, 2013). A strong return on investment from implementing prevention-based early learning supports with underserved populations has prompted expansion of home-based support services throughout the nation (Karoly et al., 2005). With this expansion, it is increasingly important to conduct well-designed, rigorous research and evaluation that contributes to the scientific knowledge base about scaling up home visiting around the country. Thus, every state awarded competitive funding through Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program expansion grants is required to conduct an implementation or impact evaluation. This poster symposium will share findings from six state MIECHV evaluations conducted in Arkansas, California, Iowa, Texas, Washington state, and Washington, DC.
All six states provide voluntary, evidence-based home visiting services to at-risk pregnant women and parents with young children. Each evaluation is intended to provide practical information that can inform home visiting program implementation and increase understanding about the impact of evidence-based home visiting at scale, including impacts on program fidelity, staff competencies, and ultimately family and child outcomes. Impacts being studied include the connection between familial risk and retention, strategies to engage fathers and keep higher-risk moms as active program participants, and the supports which help promote model fidelity and positive program outcomes. Each poster will include information about the design of the state evaluation, key findings, and implications for the field at large.

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