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The Necessity of Infrastructure for Equitable Systems Change: Home Visiting Modeling the Way
This event was held on February 13, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
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- Maternal Mental Health in Home Visiting, National Home Visiting Resource Center (NHVRC)
- Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health in Home Visiting, NHVRC
- State Partnerships to Coordinate Home Visiting and Child Welfare, NHVRC
- Home Visiting Services for Refugee, Immigrant, Migrant, and Dual Language Learner Families, NHVRC
- Connecting Home Visiting Families to Early Care and Education Services and Resources, NHVRC
- Strengthening Service Coordination Between Home Visitors and Pediatric Primary Care Providers, NHVRC
We already know the importance, value, and impacts of early childhood home visiting for advancing early relational health. We also know that home visiting, as a service delivery approach, can effectively be embedded in sister fields (e.g., early childhood, community health, doulas) to support those fields in advancing early relational health as well. But many do not have a full understanding of the infrastructure and connective-tissue that exists to support the home visiting field and how that infrastructure is necessary for realizing population-level change.
ECFC, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Early Relational Health Funders Community co-hosted this discussion to:
- Gain an understanding and appreciation for the infrastructure level supports that hold the early childhood home visiting field together.
- Explore home visiting’s unique ability to center parent voice within and across the early childhood and family support systems as a strategy to advance equity.
- Understand the continued investment that is needed to support the home visiting infrastructure.