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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. (author summary)
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The purpose of this landscape study is to fill a gap in knowledge on how many families receive home visiting, what program models are operating and where, how large is the home visiting workforce in the state, where are the largest areas of unmet need, and what are the facilitators and barriers to statewide implementation. With better information about the state of home visiting in North Carolina, policymakers and leaders are in a better position to make informed strategic decisions. (author summary)
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The National Resource Center for Family Based Services (NRC) created this profile of Iowa’s family support workforce under sponsorship of the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH). The purpose was to gain a greater understanding of the family support workforce and its organizational contexts with the goal of strengthening the workforce and improving the quality of family support services. (author summary)
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The early childhood workforce encompasses a range of professionals across health care, early childhood education, mental health, child welfare, and early intervention. Despite the differences in daily responsibilities, these professionals experience similar systems-level challenges which impede their ability to professionally flourish and risk undermining the needs of families. In this article, we highlight four key challenges—compensation, burnout, safety, and retention—which have long impacted their sectors and have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. Opportunities for policymakers and program administrators to discuss these challenges are discussed. (author abstract)
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This fact sheet describes the Staff Recruitment & Retention (SRR) CoIIN was a collaborative learning effort that consists of three MIECHV awardees (Ohio, Alabama, Wisconsin) and 10 LIAs who worked to achieve the following SMART aim by the end of their collaborative: 85% of home visiting professionals, including home visitors and home visiting supervisors, will improve or maintain high staff well-being, creating a healthier, supported, and more resilient home visiting workforce. (author summary)
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The Supporting and Strengthening the Home Visiting Workforce (SAS-HV) project focuses on “professional well-being,” specifically the (1) workplace experiences unique to home visiting and (2) how they influence dimensions of well-being that affect home visitors’ practice with families. (author summary)
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The focus of this rapid response brief is research published since March 2020 focused on the MIECHV and the broader home visiting workforce, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on this workforce, and available data. We begin with a brief overview of the MIECHV program to provide context for the recent research. We also highlight the complexities in summarizing or doing research on the workforce delivering programs supported by this funding, and discuss the opportunities, challenges, and future research needs related to this workforce. (author summary)
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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 funders 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)
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This tool aims to help Ministries and government agencies reflect on the ways in which they can support personnel delivering home visiting programs across sectors for pregnant mothers and caregivers with children under 3. It is also intended for countries with home visiting programs at either the sub-national or national levels. The tool reflects the overall environment in which the home visiting program operates as well as how it is designed and executed. Additionally, the tool addresses the support that home visitors receive since it impacts the way in which they carry out their tasks on a day to day basis and ultimately influences their relationship with families. (author summary)
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Illinois has opened a window of opportunity in which to design and implement improved statewide home visiting governance and funding structures to support the planful expansion and administration of home visiting services. (author summary)