Implementation Fidelity in Early Childhood Home Visiting: Successes Meeting Staffing Standards, Challenges Hitting Dosage and Duration Targets
This brief summarizes the EBHV fidelity analysis findings and highlights the key policy and practice implications for policymakers and direct service providers.
Read MoreThe Potential for Cost Savings from Home Visiting Due to Reductions in Child Maltreatment
Brief on Cost Savings findings from the EBHV initiative.
Read MoreCosts of Early Childhood Home Visiting: An Analysis of Programs Implemented in the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Initiative
The final report on the cost analysis of the HV programs utilized in the EBHV initiative.
Read MoreMaking Replication Work: Building Infrastructure to Implement, Scale-Up, and Sustain Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs
This final evaluation report brings together findings from all years of the EBHV initiative, drawing on interim reports and briefings and updating results with analyses of data collected through the initiative’s first four years of implementation (fall 2009 through spring 2013). Throughout the initiative, the national cross-site evaluation gathered data from many sources, including reviews…
Read MoreMaking Replication Work: Building Infrastructure to Implement, Scale-up, and Sustain Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity Findings
Synopsis of findings from the EBHV National Evaluation
Read MoreEvidence-Based Home Visiting Systems Evaluation Update: Infrastructure Building Plans and Activities in 2011
This report provides a snapshot of subcontractors’ plans for achieving target outcomes and activities that support the development of infrastructure to implement with fidelity, scale-up, and sustain evidence-based home visiting programs during year three of the EBHV initiative. The report describes the evolution of subcontractors’ logic models, including the people and organizations subcontractors have or…
Read MoreReplicating Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity: Baseline Data and Preliminary Findings
This report describes the fidelity measurement framework adopted by the cross-site evaluation team and early fidelity outcomes for 44 agencies implementing home visiting services as part of the initiative. The report presents the guiding theory of the fidelity framework and its key components and indicators. Using this framework, the report summarizes the extent to which…
Read MoreData Collection Instruments for the Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Cross-Site Evaluation
The EBHV Cross-Site Evaluation Data Instruments manual is a companion to the EBHV Design Report. It provides the data use collection instruments used in the national cross-site evaluation to date. These include protocols from site visits conducted in 2010 and 2012; a protocol for interviews on system change activities conducted in 2011 along with a…
Read MoreSupporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Cross-Site Evaluation Cost Study Background and Design Update
The report reviews the purpose of cost analyses and existing literature on the costs of home visiting program models selected by EBHV grantees, describes plans for collection and analysis of cross-site cost study data, and offers EBHV grantees information regarding their continuing role in data collection.
Read MoreBuilding Infrastructure to Support Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Two-Year Findings from the Cross-Site Evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Initiative
This brief prepared for the Children’s Bureau by Mathematica Policy Research and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, shows that states are enthusiastic about home visiting and most already had programs operating in their states when the five-year grant began in 2008. Collaborations already existed in many of these states to lay groundwork for…
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