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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The Case for Home Visiting
This 2010 report examined how voluntary home visiting programs match parents with trained professionals to provide information and assistance during pregnancy and throughout their child's first three years. The report found that this support not only helps families thrive, but saves states money on costly social problems.
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Pew Launches Home Visiting Policy Campaigns in LA, NC, OH and WA
The Pew Center on the States and its partners announced today a targeted $5.6 million campaign to promote smart state investments in evidence-based, voluntary home visiting programs for new and expectant families. more
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Congress Invests in Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs
John Schlitt, director of the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, issued the following statement today, commenting on maternal and infant home visiting provisions included in health care reform legislation.
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