Research Innovation Toward Precision Home Visiting
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.
Featured Items from HARC
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HARC Webinar Series
Home Visiting in Rural Contexts: Implementing Regional MIECHV Hubs in Rural Kansas
February 10th, 2026 at 12pm ET. Kansas currently has two MIECHV LIAs operating as regional hubs. This allows Kansas MIECHV to cover a larger service area of high-need counties, promotes collaboration across local programs, and reduces state administrative burden. This webinar will cover reasons for developing the hub model, the importance of context, key differences in implementation based on context, and lessons learned from key informant interviews.
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HARC Webinar Series
Ethical Use of AI in Academic Publishing: Opportunities and Responsibilities
Coming February 24. 2026
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RoHVR Checklist
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.
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The Precision Paradigm
To 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?
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About: Engaging individuals and communities served by home visiting programs, as well as other groups involved in the field, as research partners is an essential…
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Join our Practice-Based Research Network!
Membership is open to all who work in home visiting or are interested in home visiting research.
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Interested in Conducting Collaborative Studies with Local Home Visiting Programs
All HARC members are welcome to propose a study with the practice-based research network.
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Browse Home Visiting Research, Toolkits and Literature Updates
HARC Resource Library contains all of the research briefs, peer-reviewed publications, data collection tools, presentations and toolkits.
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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…
HARC 2025 Year in Review
2025 has been an incredible year for HARC! We have marked milestones and achievements as shown in the image to the right. Your support of HARC and our work means everything to us – thank you for being a part of our journey!
