About Home Visit Forum
A Commitment to Quality Improvement
Home visiting as a service delivery strategy has expanded greatly in recent
years, but evaluative research has found mixed benefits. In a 1999
issue of The Future of Children journal, published by the Lucile
and David Packard Foundation, recommendations called for home visitation programs
to enhance the implementation and quality of their services.
The Home Visit Forum is a response to that call for action. A consortium
of administrators, practitioners, and researchers, the Home Visit Forum participants
represent six nationally based programs: Early Head Start (EHS), Healthy
Families America (HFA), Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters
(HIPPY), the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), Parents As Teachers
(PAT), and the Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP).
Despite the unique attributes of each program, the use of home visitation as
a delivery model means these organizations share many common goals. Over the
last two years, participants have worked to create areas for cross program cooperation
and learning that strengthen the home visit field as a whole, as well as enhance
individual programs.
The Home Visit Forum seeks to increase delivery efficiency, develop practice
benchmarks that can improve quality, and create a better understanding of the
role that home visitation can play in state and national systems to help young
children and their families.
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