We’re excited to announce our plenary sessions at the 2024 National Home Visiting Summit! Learn more our 2024 plenary sessions, speakers and schedule:

Parent-focused, Culturally Responsive Programming for Refugee and Displaced Populations: Evidence of Impact from Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia
February 1, 2024 10-11 a.m. ET
Speaker: Hirokazu Yoshikawa, University Professor, NYU Steinhardt
This plenary session focuses on international research conducted by Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa within the Middle East, Bangladesh, and Latin America and will outline learnings from developing, implementing, evaluating, and scaling culturally responsive early childhood programs with refugee, displaced and host community families. Each research project partnered with NGOs based in these regions, aimed to center the voices of the community, and created connections between families, community members, and early childhood professionals. Attendees will leave the session with information applicable to early childhood systems in the United States, including improved outcomes in program retention, father involvement, child social-emotional development and learning, parental mental health and well-being, and parenting/co-parenting skills.

Intersectional Professionals: Integrating Lived Experience in the Workplace
February 1, 2024 4:30-5:30 p.m. ET
Speaker: Anthony Barrows, Managing Partner, Center for Behavioral Design & Social Justice at Project Evident
This session will explore the practicalities and promise of bringing lived experience into human services work. Participants will be introduced to the Center for Behavioral Design & Social Justice; explore the concept of Intersectional Professionals (people with lived experience of the work they do); get an overview of research evidence examining the effects of lived experience on policy and program design; and learn a set of evidence-informed best practices for leveraging lived expertise in the workplace.

Advancing Maternal Health Equity in the Era of Climate Change
February 2, 2024 1-2:15 p.m. ET
Speaker: Tyra T Gross, Associate Professor, Xavier University of Louisiana
Join Dr. Tyra Gross (PhD, MPH), Associate Professor of Public Health at Xavier University of Louisiana, for an exploration of the physical health, mental health, and cultural shifts that pregnant people will increasingly experience in years ahead as climate change progresses. Attendees will be invited to envision their role – as home visitors and systems builders – in ensuring that home visiting services and systems reflect the lived experiences of those directly experiencing climate change as well as the latest research about its effects. Learn how home visitors and other birthworkers are already innovating and working to support clients and communities in building climate resiliency. Leveraging her experiences as a maternal and child health equity researcher, a partner to maternal health providers and advocates, and a mom, Dr. Gross urges the home visiting field to “answer the call” to climate action and adaptation.

View the full Summit agenda on our conference website.

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Conference Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB): Justice demands we take the necessary steps to reimagine and begin to create systems to ensure that every person has fair conditions, support, and agency to live free of oppression, with humanity and joy. The home visiting field is in a necessary and ongoing period of grappling with and addressing the deep economic, social, and racial disparities that exist in the United States. As a leader in home visiting, the Summit invites you, through work in policy, practice, and research, to change the systems on which these inequities were built.

At registration, speakers and attendees are required to agree to the Summit’s Community Agreement which outlines our conference values and commitment to providing a harassment-free experience. Click here to view the agreement.

Resources include:

• American Psychological Association (APA) Style – Bias-Free Language
• Black Mamas Matter Toolkit
• CDC – Health Equity Guiding Principle for Inclusive Communication
• Health Equity Style Guide for COVID-19 Response: Principles Preferred Terms for Non-Stigmatizing, Bias-Free Language

1. Contribute to and be a catalyst for field-building investments to design and strengthen the systems and infrastructure needed to ensure equitable ongoing program quality and to facilitate the commitment of increased public and private investments over time.
2. Provide leaders in the home visiting field and connected systems of care with a national forum for the exchange of best practices, emerging concepts and lessons learned across systems, states and models on the most relevant topics, adaptations and emerging challenges facing the home visiting field.
3. Promote and highlight issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging with an emphasis on re-creating systems to ensure that all children and families are supported fairly and equally.
4. Facilitate building strong national partnerships with local, state and national leaders to increase systems influence and inform policy nationwide.

The National Home Visiting Summit provides an exclusive opportunity for a sponsor—whether corporate or individual—to demonstrate its commitment to children and families to hundreds of early childhood leaders from across the country.

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Please email Events@StartEarly.org to learn more about benefits and sponsorship opportunities for the 2024 National Home Visiting Summit.

The call for proposal for the 2024 National Home Visting Summit is closed. Accept/decline notifications will be sent to the submitting authors by November 8, 2023. 

The Summit seeks proposals addressing systems change work within the home visiting field and early childhood system of care. Proposals should demonstrate a clear connection to the conference’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) that advances the home visiting field and connected systems of care through innovations, diverse perspectives, and a focus on impact.

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Summit attendees and CoP participants schedule and complete their own Hill visits (virtual and in-person) during the Summit between 10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET on January 31. Advocates can also schedule visits throughout the Summit through Friday, February 2, 2024.

Hill Visit Debrief Virtual Session: Post-Summit

• After the Summit, we’ll reconvene to debrief our in-person and virtual meetings with lawmakers. The Advocacy & Policy CoP will discuss next steps for sustaining relationships with lawmakers, and support follow-up to any questions that arose during meetings with legislators. Stay tuned for registration details.

The Summit is designed for state and federal administrative and legislative systems leaders, federal, state, and local policy advocates, researchers, program and practice leaders, direct service providers, parents/caregivers and philanthropic partners interested in information that supports and strengthens their role as decision-makers and change agents in the home visiting field. Accordingly, each session is an important opportunity for speakers to engage leaders on the most pressing and innovative issues concerning the field today.

Conference Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB): Justice demands we take the necessary steps to reimagine and begin to create systems to ensure that every person has fair conditions, support, and agency to live free of oppression, with humanity and joy. The home visiting field is in a necessary and ongoing period of grappling with and addressing the deep economic, social, and racial disparities that exist in the United States. As a leader in home visiting, the Summit invites you, through work in policy, practice, and research, to change the systems on which these inequities were built.

Resources include:

• American Psychological Association (APA) Style – Bias-Free Language
• Black Mamas Matter Toolkit
• CDC – Health Equity Guiding Principle for Inclusive Communication
• Health Equity Style Guide for COVID-19 Response: Principles Preferred Terms for Non-Stigmatizing, Bias-Free Language

The 2024 National Home Visiting Summit steering committee, comprised of thought leaders from the home visiting and early childhood field, has worked collaboratively with conference organizers to inform the development of the conference DEIB commitment, content areas of focus, and selection criteria. As a result, the steering committee and conference organizers will use the following framework for selecting proposals.

Proposals addressing key areas of focus for the 2024 Summit that include representation of parent/caregiver and provider voice and address topics impacting historically marginalized people will be prioritized. Please provide specific examples when drafting your proposal.

• The session content and speakers promote inclusion and diversity within the context of the presentation and broader home visiting field. Proposals should speak directly to issues of DEIB when possible. Please provide specific examples when submitting.
• The session provides relevant and innovative content. Preference is given to presentations that align with the systems change/field-building vision of the Summit by highlighting important issues surrounding systems building, innovative or field-advancing practice(s), and creative/unique collaborations and partnerships.
• The session engages attendees in the learning and discovery process by actively facilitating participant involvement. Speakers must provide perspective and insight through dialogue, storytelling, case studies, lessons learned, etc. Accepted proposals will include examples of how speakers plan to engage attendees throughout the session.
• Participants are provided with multiple strategies that expand thinking and can be applied to practice.
• To create space for all voices to be shared at the Summit, we will consider the number of sessions on the agenda with the same speakers and organizations represented. We encourage prospective speakers to consider ways to elevate partners, providers, parents/caregivers, and colleagues into speaking roles when deciding to submit a proposal.

Spanish Translation and Interpretation
For the 2024 Summit, Spanish translation and interpretation services will be provided for on-demand recorded sessions, plenary session livestream, and poster sessions. The conference organizer will provide translation support upon request. Additional information will be shared with selected speakers. Please email your questions to Events@StartEarly.org.

Coordination with the 2024 MIECHV All-Grantee Meeting
Start Early is pleased to collaborate with HRSA to offer the Summit in coordination with the 2024 Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program’s All-Grantee Meeting (MIECHV AGM), which is scheduled for January 29-January 31, 2024, in Washington, DC. These two events will bring together leaders across the home visiting field to prioritize early childhood systems coordination, address equity in communities, and expand the reach of home visiting through innovative funding strategies. The call for abstracts for the 2024 MIECHV AGM will open during the last week of June. Abstract reviews will be coordinated to best meet the shared goals of both events.

Travel and Registration for Home Visiting Parents and Caregivers
Parents and caregivers engaged in home visiting services participating as speakers at the Summit will receive the following to support participation:

• Complimentary registration
• Complimentary accommodations at the meeting location for two nights (Jan. 31 – Feb. 2)
• Flight or ground transportation reimbursement
• Daily Stipend and childcare award
• Honorarium $450

Speaker Registration Rates

The 2024 National Home Visiting Summit will offer both in-person and virtual engagement opportunities for attendees and speakers. Approximately 25% of live workshops will be offered in both an in-person and virtual streaming format, and pre-recorded session content via on-demand and poster sessions will also be offered as a virtual option. Please reference the Session Format chart which provides the list of in-person and virtual session formats.

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