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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)
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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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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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Home visiting expert and former Start Early vice president for training, Janelle Weldin-Frisch, urges system leaders to think about their role to address persistent and pervasive issues of vacancy and turnover in home visiting programs. (author summary)
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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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This blog describes strategies that Florida has utilized to support local implementing agencies (LIAs) to improve their staff recruitment and retention in recognition that home visitors play an enormous role in family engagement with the program. (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 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 First 5 California (F5CA) Home Visiting Workforce Study collected data to help the state understand the landscape of California’s home visiting workforce, including characteristics of home visitors and supervisors, implementation supports for staff, and program needs for workforce recruitment, development, and retention. These data will be used to develop policy recommendations to support F5CA in this infrastructure development. This report presents findings from a survey of the California home visiting workforce, which received responses from more than 900 home visitors and supervisors across the state, representing 48 counties and 54 home visiting models. (author summary)
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This fact sheet presents national estimates of program-level turnover and vacancy rates among Early Head Start (EHS) education and child development staff in 2022.