The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, funded by the Head Start Bureau in 2004, supports the quality of care that family, friends and neighbors—"kith and kin" caregivers—provide to infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs. This publication describes...

This brief covers the HomVEE review process, results, and the 14 program models determined to meet the U.S Department of Health and Human Services' criteria for an "evidence-based early childhood home visiting service delivery model."

This article reviewed 28 quantitative studies comparing outcomes for women who did and did not receive prenatal home visiting. More evidence suggests that prenatal home visiting may improve the use of prenatal care, whereas less evidence exists that it improves neonatal birth weight or...

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...

This article found existing rigorous research indicates that home visiting programs serving at-risk pregnant women and children from birth to age 5 have the potential for positive results on these families, particularly on health care usage and child development.