HARC’s 10th Collaborative Science of Home Visiting Meeting - Bridging Research and Practice: Evidence Use in Early Home Visiting
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The Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC) is a national research and development platform for innovation to broaden and strengthen home visiting's benefits for all families and communities.
Home Visiting Research Discovery Program
Research Discovery Program Scholars
Congratulations to our first cohort of seven exceptional scholars for the Research Discovery Program. This is a mentoring program for home visiting practitioners, which aims to strengthen home visiting practitioners’ research skills and involvement. Cohort scholars will learn skills to enhance their capacity to do research, use research to inform practice, and explore research careers. The program will run from January 2026 to December 2026.
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August 11, 2026, 12-1pm ET
Implementing Service Coordination for Maternal Depression in Home Visiting: A Multiple-Case Study
Home visiting (HV) programs play an important role in identifying maternal depression and connecting mothers to care, but screening and referral do not ensure that families can access timely and appropriate services. Drawing on interviews with home visitors, supervisors, and mothers from the Parents as Teachers HV program, the study examined how programs responded when referral and linkage pathways were delayed, inaccessible, or poorly matched to families’ needs. This presentation will consider how home visiting programs can move beyond a referral-only model by strengthening relational capacity, clarifying role boundaries, expanding in-house and consultative supports, and improving external partnerships.
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Reporting of Home Visiting Research Checklist
HARC developed the Reporting of Home Visiting Research (RoHVR) Checklist to introduce home visiting-focused guidelines for integrating key reporting elements across multiple study designs. The guidelines are intended to improve the quality of reporting about home visiting research and evaluation. This brief introduces the potential uses of the RoHVR Checklist and how it was developed before outlining its structure and components.
RoHVR ChecklistTo strengthen family engagement and home visiting’s benefits for families, we need a different approach to research. We need to focus on interventions within and across home visiting models. We need to answer the question: What works best, for which families, in which contexts, why, and how?
Research Tool
This annotated bibliography provides resources including how to develop and implement community-engaged research projects. Community-engaged research is a collaborative approach that brings together researchers and…
Linking administrative data across early childhood programs and sectors has the potential to improve service delivery for families, inform program and policy decisions, and track…
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Home Visiting Peer Reviewed Literature Updates
Each month, HARC collates recently published peer-reviewed home visiting research articles. Articles are identified via a Google Scholar alert, thus the list may not include…
Save the Date and Register now for HARC’s 10th annual meeting – September 28, 2026, in Baltimore, MD.
The meeting will take place the afternoon before the 2026 National Home Visiting Summit.
More information and the registration link can be found on the Annual Meeting page, button below.
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