Home Visiting and Child Welfare: From Policy to Nuts and Bolts

Panelists discuss how states can provide home visiting to families before they come to the attention of the child welfare system, and to families in the system whose children are still at home. Hear “on- the- ground” perspectives from two states, Indiana and Illinois, about how they reach out to and engage families in home visiting, and the effectiveness of home visiting for preventing child welfare system involvement. In addition, the executive director of the Association of State and Tribal Home Visiting Initiatives provides a national perspective on barriers to these cross-systems partnerships, and how states can overcome those challenges.

• Slide deck
• Report: Accelerating the Expansion of Home Visiting Services Under the Family First Prevention Services Act (ASTHVI)
• Dear Child Welfare Colleague Letter from ACF
• Article: Bridging the Divide between Child Welfare and Home Visiting Systems to Address the Needs of Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Care (Social Service Review from University of Chicago)