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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Libby Doggett: Home Visiting Summit
Pew Home Visiting Campaign Director Libby Doggett discusses the goals of the 2012 home visiting conference and how it will help accelerate advancements in the field.
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Home-Visiting Legislation Can Mean Better Outcomes for Families
When I talk with families from Spartanburg about the challenging issues facing South Carolina, they tell me they want their hard-earned tax dollars to be spent wisely—on programs and services that actually deliver results.
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Libby Doggett: The Case for Home Visiting
Pew Home Visiting Campaign Director Libby Doggett describes how high-quality programs can help prevent some of society's costliest problems. more
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- Press Release
- Home Visiting Campaign
Briefing Recognizes Importance of Home Visiting Programs
A congressional briefing held November 16, 2011, recognized the importance of investing in evidence-based home visitation programs. more
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- Press Release
- Home Visiting Campaign
Watch a Home Visit
What is home visiting? This photo and audio tour provides an intimate glimpse into voluntary parent mentoring programs. more
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- Press Release
- Home Visiting Campaign
Voluntary Home Visiting Gives Parents and Children a Boost, Even Before Birth
Some of our nation’s costliest social problems are rooted in early childhood. Increasingly, states are turning to proven strategies like high-quality home visitation to prevent them. Read our fact sheet to learn more. more
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- Press Release
- Home Visiting Campaign
Pew: Competitive Grant Awards Show States’ Commitment
Libby Doggett, director of the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, an initiative of the Pew Center on the States, released a statement in response to the first round of competitive grants awarded in the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.
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- Home Visiting Campaign
The Business Case for Home Visiting
This October 2011 issue brief found that home visiting programs help build the foundation for the healthy and productive workforce that businesses need. Decades of research have proven the potential of properly designed and implemented home visiting programs to transform the lives of at-risk expectant and new parents and their babies and to generate significant returns on taxpayer investments.
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Libby Doggett: Home Visiting Programs Get a Funding Boost
Libby Doggett discusses how federal funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program has impacted state initiatives.
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- Press Release
- Home Visiting Campaign
Pew: States Should Invest in Research-Backed Home Visiting Programs to Capitalize on New Federal Funds
States making investments in voluntary home visiting programs too rarely use evidence of effectiveness to inform their policy decisions, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States’ Home Visiting Campaign.
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