Highlights efforts under way in several federally funded Project LAUNCH sites where local programs are testing the effectiveness of including an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant as part of the home visiting services.
Provides information on high-quality evaluation of early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) in community based settings. This tool kit provides guidance, tools, and resources that will assist in designing and implementing program evaluations.
Describes the general process of Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation using candid, unfiltered stories to illustrate what consultants do within early care and education settings in collaboration with families, teachers, children and other partners every day.
Supports states to define the home visiting system, assess the home visiting system’s capacity, prioritize areas for improvement, and provide ongoing assessment.
Describes key components of successful home visiting services. The tool can be used by communities to identify community needs and strengths based on data, explore current home visiting assets and service gaps, choose an evidence-based program model, and analyze components of both program- and system-level implementation that are critical to the replication of high-quality home visiting programs.
Articulates why and how Strengthening Families can contribute to home visiting efforts and provides examples from some of the states actively working in this way.
Discusses emerging research points to the importance of supportive supervision, fidelity monitoring, and organizational climate to support home visitors and maintain support for the evidence-based program. Additional research on these topics can provide guidance and tools for promoting successful implementation of evidence-based home visiting and adaptation of program models to different populations and contexts.
Describes how the Evidence Based Home Visiting cross-site evaluation is examining fidelity across a range of home visiting models. Program administrators can use fidelity data to demonstrate that public investments are achieving required service delivery levels associated with positive child and family outcomes. Systematically monitoring implementation across models can help state and local planners maintain quality standards and identify any need for adaptation to successfully engage and retain the target population.
Discusses the findings of NASHP's literature review of state policies and practices nationwide to identify mechanisms for supporting home visiting services through Medicaid and findings from an expert panel regarding both currently used and potential additional mechanisms through which Medicaid could pay for home visiting and provides state examples where applicable. Six in-depth case studies illustrate states’ experiences with Medicaid financing of home visiting services.
Presents evidence from research that shows that Home Visiting programs work and ultimately save money for taxpayers. A number of studies find evidence of effectiveness across a spectrum of family support programs in a variety of areas, including reduced health care costs, reduced need for remedial education, and increased family self-sufficiency.
