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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Pew Commends Michigan for Bolstering Investment in Home Visiting
Michigan took steps recently to strengthen its $21 million investment in home visiting as Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signed HB 4526 into law, demonstrating policymakers’ commitment to supporting programs that are proven to work.
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Art Rolnick: The Case for Home Visiting
Federal Reserve economist Art Rolnick explains why high-quality programs carried out over the first three years of a child's life yield an impressive return on investment. more
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Healthy Dose of Education at Home
According to the Pew Center on the States, which recently estimated there are nearly 120 home-visitation programs across the nation, "Quality home-visiting programs lay the foundation for children's development and tax payers reap the benefit when many of our nation's costliest social problems—school failure, child abuse and the use of welfare—are prevented." more
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Pew: Cuts to Nurse-Family Partnership Now Would Cost More Later
Libby Doggett, director of the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, an initiative of the Pew Center on the States, released the following statement in response to Louisiana’s proposed cuts to the state’s home visiting program.
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Federal Investment in Home Visiting
Search Pew's resources for states seeking federal funding for state home visiting programs.
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Pew: Federal Requirements for Home Visiting Funds Give States Right Incentives
Libby Doggett, deputy director at the Pew Center on the States, issued the following statement today on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ release of criteria for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program:
“These guidelines send exactly the right message: State and federal lawmakers should invest in proven programs that earn a strong return on taxpayer dollars and boost long-term fiscal health."
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Home Visiting Inventory
The following data from the 2010 Pew Center on the States home visiting survey of agency leaders provide an inventory of FY 2009-2010 state home visitation programs, models, and funding.
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First National Summit Held on Quality in Home Visiting Programs
Industry leaders, policy makers and top researchers will gather in Washington February 16 and 17, for The National Summit on Quality in Home Visiting Programs, the first conference of its kind devoted exclusively to home visiting programs serving at-risk mothers and their children. more
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Home Visiting: A Closer Look
Extra support from voluntary, high-quality home visiting services can lead to improved family health and substantial savings for taxpayers. more
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States and the New Federal Home Visiting Initiative
In 2010, the Pew Center on the States surveyed state agency leaders in an effort to inventory state home visiting programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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