Listening to Parent Voices: How Technology Changed What’s Possible in Home Visiting and Infant Mental Health Programs

Report November 22, 2021

This new report is a rare opportunity to hear directly from parents and caregivers who were most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic about how programs can be better designed to fit their needs — increasing effectiveness and ensuring that programs are reaching the families most in need of support.

Using a Continuous Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach in Indigenous Contexts: Lessons Learned from Tribal Home Visiting

Report November 25, 2024

This new brief from OPRE and James Bell Associates presents findings from the process study of the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (THV) Continuous Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC)

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

Webinar February 13

Achieving Health Equity In New York: Supporting Healthy Child Development For Babies And Toddlers Through State And Community Partnerships With Medicaid

Blog December 11, 2018

This BUILD Initiative blog post by George L. Askew, MD, FAAP, Deputy Commissioner of Health, Division of Family and Child Health, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene explores how New York State has taken steps toward meeting its health equity goals by ensuring that its Medicaid program is working with health, education, and other system stakeholders to maximize outcomes and deliver results for the children they serve.

2021 BUILD Virtual Conference: Reinvent Early Care & Education Quality Improvement to Advance Racial Equity

Conference July 19 - 22

Home-Based Child Care: Expanding Supports for HBCC through PDG-5

Slide Deck November 1, 2022

During this webinar, we welcomed guest speakers from Home Grown who discussed their strategies for applying Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) grants to support home-based child care. Strategies explored included home-visiting and family, friend, and neighbor care; staffed family child care networks; and pre-K.

Home-Based Child Care: Expanding Supports for HBCC through PDG-5

Video November 1, 2022

During this webinar, we welcomed guest speakers from Home Grown who discussed their strategies for applying Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) grants to support home-based child care. Strategies explored included home-visiting and family, friend, and neighbor care; staffed family child care networks; and pre-K.

BUILD 2022 Meeting Archive

Archived Meeting Resources January 10, 2023

This resource includes the session descriptions, recordings, and resources shared during the BUILD 2022 National Conference.

Parent Leadership Blog – Monica Gaines

Blog October 20, 2021

Monica Gaines lives in Wayne County, MI with her husband Nathaniel and their son Nate. She began her journey into home visiting in 2013 when she joined the Healthy Families program in Wayne County. She became a parent leader in 2015 when she joined the advisory board and the Local Leadership Group. She went on to also join the State Local Leadership Parent Leader Team. In 2017, Monica was hired as the Healthy Families Program senior program assistant and most recently has also taken on the role of parent coordinator with the Early Childhood Investment Corporation.

A Project Years in the Making: Early Childhood and Child Welfare Working Together to Reach The Most Vulnerable Children In Time

Blog March 5, 2021

This blog describes the urgent need for early childhood and child welfare to join forces to support vulnerable children and outlines the goals of a BUILD project to create a strategy to develop and enhance the collaboration between the child welfare and early childhood systems to improve outcomes for young children and their families.