Pew's Home Visiting Campaign researches and promotes cost-effective investments in high-quality, home-based programs for new and expectant families.
Why Home Visiting Matters
Some of our nation’s costliest social problems—like child abuse and neglect, school failure, poverty, unemployment, and crime—are rooted in early childhood. Voluntary home visiting matches parents with trained professionals to provide information and support during pregnancy and throughout their child’s first three years—a critical developmental period. Quality, voluntary home visiting leads to fewer children in social welfare, mental health, and juvenile corrections systems, with considerable cost savings for states.
How We Conduct Our Work
- Policy Advocacy. In the states, we provide strategic technical assistance to campaigns, anchored by our model policy framework, that advance policy change. We also advocate for data-driven federal policies that support and leverage state investments in high-quality home visitation.
- Research. We lead a comprehensive, policy-relevant research agenda. The findings will help assure state home visiting programs provide meaningful outcomes for children and families and yield the strongest possible return on taxpayer investment.
- Information Sharing. We lead webinars, events, meetings, and communications to facilitate a national conversation on the importance of evidence-based home visiting policy. In doing so, we serve as a resource to state policy makers and administrators making data-driven policy investments.
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New Opportunities to Expand Home Visiting
More than a decade of bipartisan work in states has led to improved access to learning and health opportunities for children like evidence-based home visiting and high-quality pre-k. more
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Kentucky Enacts Outcomes-Driven Home Visiting Policy
On April 4, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed into law a measure that sets up one of the strongest home visiting systems in the country by building on the strength of Kentucky’s flagship home visiting program for new and expectant parents, the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) Program. more
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Arkansas Passes Legislation to Strengthen Home Visiting
On March 28, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed into law a measure that sets up one of the strongest home visiting systems in the country by ensuring investments are directed to programs that are proven to achieve successful results for children and families. more
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Video Highlights from 2013 Home Visiting Summit
On Feb. 13–14, 2013, The Pew Charitable Trusts co-hosted the Third National Summit on Quality in Home Visiting Programs with Every Child Succeeds and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. On this page, videos from five of the presenters show highlights of their remarks. more
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The White House Seeks to Expand Home Visiting Programs: Pew
The Obama administration has announced that it will seek a substantial new investment to expand voluntary evidence-based home visiting programs. Pew’s Libby Doggett, an expert on home visiting, highlights the importance of the decision. Voluntary home visiting matches parents with trained professionals to provide information and support during pregnancy and throughout their child’s first three years. more
