Below are some of their findings. Family characteristics predicted family engagement in home visiting programs [ 4 ]:. This series of research-to-practice briefs covers a variety of topics related to early learning and child development.
The briefs were developed to support home visitors in their work with children and families. They provide an accessible overview of recent research, as well as resources for families. In addition to home visitors, teachers and family child care providers can use these briefs to learn more about recent research on early childhood development.
Jones Harden, R. Chazan-Cohen, R. Raikes, and C. Adirim and L. Raikes, B. Green, J. Evidence-based home visiting can achieve positive outcomes for children and families while creating long-term savings for states.
With the enactment of the MIECHV grant program, state legislatures have played a key role by financing programs and advancing legislation that helps coordinate the variety of state home visiting programs as well as strengthening the quality and accountability of those programs. During the legislative session Rhode Island lawmakers passed the Rhode Island Home Visiting Act HB that requires the Department of Health to coordinate the system of early childhood home visiting services; implement a statewide home visiting system that uses evidence-based models proven to improve child and family outcomes; and implement a system to identify and refer families before the child is born or as early after the birth of a child as possible.
The bill also established the definitions of and funding for evidence-based and promising programs 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively. Arkansas lawmakers passed SB that required the state to implement statewide, voluntary home visiting services to promote prenatal care and healthy births; to use at least 90 percent of funding toward evidence-based and promising practice models; and to develop protocols for sharing and reporting program data and a uniform contract for providers.
View a list of significant enacted home visiting legislation from State officials face difficult decisions about how to use limited funding to support vulnerable children and families. State officials face difficult decisions about how to use limited funding to support vulnerable children and families and how to ensure programs achieve desired results. Evidence-based home visiting programs have the potential to achieve important short- and long-term outcomes.
Create Account. Home Visiting: Improving Outcomes for Children. What Does the Research Say? What is Home Visiting? Several key policy areas are particularly appropriate for legislative consideration: Goal-Setting: What are they key outcomes a state seeks to achieve with its home visiting programs? Evidence-based Home Visiting: Have funded programs demonstrated that they delivered high-quality services and measureable results? Findings from this study indicate that BHC offers a unique model of evidence-based home-visiting services integrated into primary care, which demonstrates high retention rates and addresses the multidimensional needs of young at-risk families.
Complementary and alternative strategies to home-visiting programs are recommended to ensure widespread impact on public health outcomes.
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration Focuses on the selection and development of performance measures or indicators to achieve an array of goals such as improving maternal and child health, parenting practices, school readiness, and the prevention of child abuse and neglect as they relate to legislatively mandated benchmark areas.
The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1. View Abstract. Examines the effectiveness of Family Spirit, a paraprofessional-delivered, home-visiting pregnancy and early childhood intervention, in improving American Indian teen mothers' parenting outcomes and mothers' and children's emotional and behavioral functioning 12 months postpartum.
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