Changing the Conversation About Home Visiting:
Scaling Up With Quality
Heather Weiss, Harvard Family
Research Project
Lisa Klein, Hestia Advising
December 2006
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Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to determine what the evidence and conventional
wisdom say about scaling up home visiting as one of the best ways to support
parents and promote early childhood development. To answer this question, we
examined the available research evidence, interviewed leaders from six of the
national home visiting models, and interviewed researchers who have studied
home visiting. The area of interest for guiding future research, practice, and
policy is whether home visiting can be delivered at broad scale and with the
quality necessary to attain demonstrable, positive outcomes for young children
and their parents.
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