- | Executive Summary
This overview details the National Strategy’s purpose, goals, and outcomes. It provides an at-a-glance look at three key pillars and 15 actions that will propel progress in achieving a sustainable, skilled, and supported home visiting workforce.
- | Infographic
- | Brief
This data insights brief presents new findings from a survey of 243 home visitors across 34 states and the District of Columbia, conducted in 2025. It surfaces home visitor perspectives on the most important ways they support families, the biggest challenges they face daily — including paperwork burden, complex family needs, and secondary trauma — and the structural support, community services, and professional development they say would make a difference. The findings are designed to inform supervisors, program leaders, model representatives, system leaders, and researchers working to strengthen and support the workforce.
- | Brief
This research-to-practice brief provides a foundational overview of case management in home visiting, including a field-informed definition, six core components, and the system-level factors that influence how programs connect families to services. As the first in a series, it supports state, territory, tribal, and local programs in strengthening their efforts to ensure families access the services and resources they need.
- | Brief
This research-to-practice brief is designed for local program leaders, supervisors, state and network leaders, and model developers who want to take meaningful action to protect and retain their staff. Drawing on a scan of existing literature and resources, as well as voices from the home visiting field, this brief presents concrete, actionable strategies across four domains — policies, practices, resources, and supports — that programs can implement to build a culture of safety.
- | Brief
Home visitors do essential work — but too often, that work goes unrecognized. Our latest research-to-practice brief makes the case for meaningful staff recognition and offers practical, low-cost strategies program leaders can use to help home visitors feel valued and supported. It highlights how small, intentional efforts can improve morale, retention, and overall program impact.
- | Brief
This research-to-practice brief is designed for local program leaders, supervisors, state and network leaders, and model developers looking to strengthen their workforce by investing in peer connection. Drawing on a scan of existing literature and voices from the home visiting field, this brief presents strategies across three areas — peer relationships in the workplace, peer support structures, and peer connections across the field — that programs can tailor to meet the needs of their staff.
- | Report
The MIECHV and IDHS State Home Visiting Program Staff Survey is conducted each year by the Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD) at the University of Illinois in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Early Childhood (IDHS-DEC). The goals of the survey are to obtain feedback and better understand the needs of the Illinois MIECHV and IDHS State Home Visiting funded workforce. This report focuses on professional development findings.
- | Other
This resource provides findings from a needs asssessment of the Illinois Home Visiting Workforce
- | Planning Tool
This resource, developed by the Colorado Early Childhood Leadership Commission (ECLC)’s Home Visiting Investment Task Force, provides recommendations to expand access and increase quality of home visiting services across the state.