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 |  2020

Home Visiting and Parenting Education System System Action Plan

Authors: Smart Start North Carolina Partnership for Children.

The Home Visiting and Parent Education System Action Plan calls for better coordination across state funders and across programs to build and maintain a system that remediates racial and economic inequities through the equitable access points, quality, and distribution of services by: – collecting and using data across finders and program models to assure services are targeted where there is need and to measure and track outcomes; – assuring dedicated resources are spent in the most effective way, improving the quality of services through professional development and continual improvement based on family feedback and impact measures; – reducing administrative burden of community service providers who may currently need to report separately to different funders as they combine funding to serve families; and – supporting community level system-building to coordinate all home visiting and parenting education services as well as connect them with other early childhood services such as child care, preschool, health, and mental health to improve family access to services. (author summary)