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The National Home Visiting Summit is a conference that integrates policy, practice, and research to influence systems change, with the goal of advancing equitable and high-quality home visiting services, structures, and systems. The Summit provides a platform to advance home visiting as a critical component of the early childhood system.
View the 2025 Agenda At-a-Glance to help plan your trip to Washington, D.C. for this year’s conference accordingly.
The National Home Visiting Summit will be held in person from February 12 – 14, 2025.
Opening the Doors to Systems Change
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. The perspectives and practices of intersectional professionals and families are especially encouraged.
Location
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H Street NW Washington, DC, USA, 20001 202.582.1234
Interested in attending virtually? The three plenary sessions at the conference will be streamed live for those unable to attend in-person. The plenary sessions are the only live content offered virtually at the 2025 Summit. Learn more.
Call for Proposal
The Call for Proposal for the 2025 Summit is open! The Summit seeks workshop proposals addressing systems change within the home visiting field and early childhood system of care. Systems change can and should be influenced at multiple levels, including family, workforce, community, state, and federal and should include voices with lived experience and expertise within the early childhood ecosystem.
The in-person conference will include the following engagements:
The Summit agenda at-a-glance is available here.
Session Registration
Sessions will be open for registration in January.
2025 Plenaries
Stay tuned to learn more about the 2025 Plenary speakers!
Start Early is an Accredited Provider by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). For the first time, the National Home Visiting Summit will offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for workshops and plenary sessions. IACET CEUs will be issued via standards set up by Start Early as an accredited organization via the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). As the official standard for continuing education and training, IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are recognized by a wide range of organizations, including professional associations, regulatory boards, corporations, and universities. Start Early is unable to seek state-by-state early childhood workforce registry approval for the Summit. However, as a current IACET-approved provider, all content sessions at the Summit include CEU provision options for learners (learners must complete and pass associated evaluations to obtain CEUs). We encourage individuals to directly contact their state registry to find out if CEUs may be accepted and count toward clock hour requirements.
Credit for each plenary session attended: 0.1 CEU
Credit for each workshop session attended: 0.1 CEU
To receive credit, you must participate in the entirety of the session and complete the end-of-session evaluation. Start Early will issue CEUs throughout the month of February in the form of certificates via email. Please be patient as we process your certificate.
Conference Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB):
Justice demands that we take the necessary steps to reimagine and create systems to ensure that children, families, providers and communities have fair conditions, support, and agency to live free of oppression, with humanity and joy. The home visiting field must continuously grapple with the field’s role in addressing the deep economic, social, and racial disparities that exist in the United States and globally. Systems change happens at every level of home visiting with families and home visitors, supervisors, funders, policy professionals, researchers and community partners all pushing at different leverage points. As drivers of quality and positive change in home visiting across many roles, with varied and often intersectional backgrounds and wisdom, the Summit invites you, through work in policy, practice, research to partner to change the systems on which these inequities were built. Learn more about our community agreement.
Resources:
Conference Commitment to Accessibility – Creating an Inclusive Community:
Start Early is committed to providing all participants with a safe and welcoming environment. As you register for the conference, you must agree to the Summit’s Community Agreement. Aligned with the Conference Commitment, the Community Agreement outlining the code of conduct for all Summit participants.
Please review the list below for further details:
Requests can be made when you register or by emailing Events@StartEarly.org.
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.
Please email Events@StartEarly.org to learn more about benefits and sponsorship opportunities for the 2025 National Home Visiting Summit.
Registration closes: Friday, January 10, 2025 If the conference reaches capacity in advance of the deadline a waiting list will be enabled.
| Registration Type | Fee |
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| Attendee Early Bird Rate (through October 31, 2024) | $599 |
| Attendee Rate (November 1, 2024 – January 10, 2025) | $649 |
| Speaker/Poster Presenter | $449 |
| Livestream* | $99 |
*Livestream: The three plenary sessions at the conference will be streamed live for those unable to attend in-person. The plenary sessions are the only live content offered virtually at the 2025 Summit. Virtual poster content and exhibitor booths will also be made available to livestream registrants. View the agenda at-a-glance for plenary session dates and times.
Summit registration package includes the following engagements:
Meals
The following meals will be provided for registrants: beverage and light refreshments at the poster session on Wednesday, February 12; continental breakfast and buffet lunch on Thursday, February 13; and continental breakfast and box lunch on Friday, February 14. Dietary preferences can be indicated in registration.
Home Visiting Parent/Caregiver Registration: To qualify for free livestream registration as a home visiting parent/caregiver, you must currently receive services as a parent/caregiver with a home visiting program. Email the event team at Events@StartEarly.org to receive the code for free livestream registration.
Limited funds for parent/caregiver in-person registration, travel, and honorarium are available. Should you be interested in attending in-person, please email Events@StartEarly.org.
Student Discount: A 10% discount is available for registered attendees in a degree-earning program. Please email us at Events@StartEarly.org if this applies to you, and the discount will be provided. This discount is applicable for in-person registration only.
Payment
The Summit accepts credit cards, purchase orders, ACH, and checks. We encourage attendees to complete payment via credit card when possible.
If paying by check, ACH, or purchase order, please adhere to the following: When registering, select the ‘Bill Me Later’ option to process checks, ACH, or purchase orders. Attendees paying by check or purchase order have 30 days to complete payment for the Summit or provide us with an explanation for extending the due date (i.e., waiting for the new fiscal year). Written payment explanations should be made within 30 days of registration to Events@StartEarly.org.
Please note:
Checks should be mailed to:
Start Early
Attn: National Home Visiting Summit
PO BOX 775834
Chicago, IL 60677-5834
To reconcile payment, checks must be mailed to Start Early with the invoice received in your confirmation email, including the attendee’s name and confirmation number. Failure to include documentation may delay reconciling your payment or lead to cancellation.
If someone else will be submitting payment on behalf of an attendee (I.e. a finance department or sponsoring organization) the attendee is responsible for ensuring that their invoice is included with this payment. If you cannot ensure documentation will be included in your payment email the conference planning team. Failure to include documentation may delay reconciling your payment or lead to cancellation.
We are eager to support you during the payment process. Please email us your inquiries at Events@StartEarly.org.
Group Discount Registration
A registration discount is available for organizations planning to register a group of 10 or more attendees. For every 10 registrants, the 10th registration is free. Please get in touch with us at Events@StartEarly.org before registering your group to obtain the discount.
Cancellation/Substitution Policy
All registration cancellations must be sent via email to Events@StartEarly.org. There will be a $100 processing fee to cancel in-person registration. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations made after January 26, 2025. Credits will not be issued for future events. No refunds shall be made for cancellations due to inclement weather. Refunds in case of emergency: If an attendee cannot attend the conference due to serious illness or death, a full refund will be issued.
Substitution Policy
You may transfer your registration to another person (without cost) if you cannot attend the Summit. Email the event team at Events@StartEarly.org with the names and email addresses of the original and substitute registrants.
Conference Location
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H Street NW Washington, DC, USA, 20001 202.582.1234
The group rate at the Grand Hyatt starts at $259 for February 11-14. Group Discount Code: G-OUNZ
To reserve using the per-diem rate, you can book here at the rate of $188 per night plus tax. Group Discount Code: G-OUN1
The standard check-in at the Hyatt is 4 p.m. Eastern, and checkout is 11 a.m. Eastern. The deadline to reserve a room at the group rate is January 22, 2025. We encourage you to book in advance of the deadline.
If making your reservation by phone, reference the group code and conference name to access the group discount. Reservations: 202.582.1234
Ground Travel
Ground transportation will not be provided. The D.C. Metro, taxi system and hotel shuttles are recommended.
The nearest Metro station to the Hyatt is the Metro Center Station and is connected to the Grand Hyatt Washington D.C. You can access the blue, red, orange, and silver metro lines there. The address is 607 13th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005. Learn more about the Metro.
Sustainable Travel Tips
Before we gather, we encourage you to review and practice sustainable travel practices for the duration of your stay. We hope to leave the nation’s capital and the surrounding community better than we found it!
Resources and recommended readings:
Content Areas of Interest for the 2025 Summit (include but are not limited to):
We recommend using FedEx, which is conveniently located at the Grand Hyatt.
The Summit does not provide on-site child care or designated activities for children.
These services will not be provided for the 2025 Summit. The conference will be delivered in English.
The Grand Hyatt Washington, D.C. is the only hotel with a Summit room block.
There is no formal dress code for the conference. We do our very best to control meeting room temperatures, we recommend you bring an additional layer for your comfort.
Registrants can modify their agenda on the mobile app or desktop version. If you would like to switch sessions during the conference, we ask you to take your seat just before the start of the session to accommodate registered attendees.
We encourage you to attend as much as you can. However, your attendance at sessions or events is at your discretion.
The Summit is committed to providing an environmentally friendly conference. Session materials will not be printed. Please view our mobile app for materials and your individualized agenda.
All food will be labeled, attendees with specific needs should ask event or banquet staff for specific meal needs.
Yes, a nursing and medical necessities room will be available onsite. Visit the registration desk for a key to the room.
If you are staying at the meeting location or another hotel, you may give your belongings to the concierge at the Grand Hyatt Washington D.C.
Please go to the front desk of the Grand Hyatt to report or find lost items. Assistance can also be provided by going to conference services and speaking with a staff member.
The conference website will be available for 5 months after the conference. Ending July 14, 2025.
Yes, please view the CEU section on the conference website to learn more.
The 2026 conference dates will be released before the upcoming conference. A Save the Date will be emailed to our community. To ensure you receive an email, please sign up below.
The Call for Proposal for the 2026 Summit will open Summer of 2025.
The National Home Visiting Summit’s Communities of Practice are focused on developing peer learning communities dedicated to the most pressing issues in the home visiting field.
The 2025 National Home Visiting Summit and Communities of Practice were made possible by:
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The National Home Visiting Summit, hosted by Start Early, brings together 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 who make that incredible reach possible.
The 2025 National Home Visiting Summit will take place February 12-14, 2025, in Washington, D.C., at the Grand Hyatt Washington, with an anticipated audience of 750 in-person attendees and an additional 500+ joining virtually via livestream of three plenary sessions. In 2024, the Summit drew 1,300 attendees to a hybrid conference, reflecting the high demand for Summit connections and content. Attendees at the Summit seek information and connections that support and strengthen their role as decision-makers and change agents in the home visiting field and connected systems (e.g., immigration, healthcare, child welfare, housing, etc.).
Summit Sponsorship provides an opportunity to market your brand, reach new customers, and foster trust and credibility with the decision-makers in the field at the largest convening of home-visiting supporters and providers in the nation.
In addition to the options below, custom sponsorship and exhibitor packages are available. Please reach out to Events@StartEarly.org with any questions or to secure your sponsorship.
The National Home Visiting Summit is a conference that integrates policy, practice, and research to influence systems change, with the goal of advancing equitable and high-quality home visiting services, structures, and systems. The Summit provides a platform to advance home visiting as a critical component of the early childhood system.
The 2025 National Home Visiting Summit seeks workshop proposals addressing systems change within the home visiting field and early childhood system of care. Systems change can and should be influenced at multiple levels, including family, workforce, community, state, and federal and should include voices with lived experience and expertise within the early childhood ecosystem.
Acceptance notifications will be sent to submitting authors by early November. Please note that due to the high volume of proposals, we cannot provide feedback for each submission. Authors interested in receiving feedback are encouraged to email the Summit planning team. The review team will do its best to accommodate all requests for feedback.
Open Call: June 26, 2024
Deadline to Submit Proposal: August 30, 2024 at 11:59 ET
Acceptance Notifications: November 2024
Call for Proposal Announcement
The 2025 National Home Visiting Summit is an in-person conference. Accepted presenters will be expected to attend in-person. The Summit will be held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C., from February 12-14, 2025.
Summit Mission: The National Home Visiting Summit aims to integrate policy, practice, and research to influence systems change, with the goal of advancing equitable and high-quality home visiting services, structures, and systems. Learning, collaboration, and knowledge-to-practice transfer at the Summit are meant to advance home visiting as a critical component of the early childhood system.
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.The perspectives and practices of intersectional professionals and families are especially encouraged.
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. The centering of parent/caregiver and provider voice, voices which are often intersectional, as well as the voices, ideas, innovations, and solutions of those who have been historically marginalized and undervalued will be elevated and prioritized during the Summit.
Conference Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB): Justice demands that we take the necessary steps to reimagine and create systems to ensure that children, families, providers and communities have fair conditions, support, and agency to live free of oppression, with humanity and joy. The home visiting field must continuously grapple with the field’s role in addressing the deep economic, social, and racial disparities that exist in the United States and globally. Systems change happens at every level of home visiting with families and home visitors, supervisors, funders, policy professionals, researchers and community partners all pushing at different leverage points. As drivers of quality and positive change in home visiting across many roles, with varied and often intersectional backgrounds and wisdom, the Summit invites you, through work in policy, practice, research to partner to change the systems on which these inequities were built.
Resources include:
Content areas of interest of the 2025 Summit include but are not limited to:
Examples within this focus area include:
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The 2025 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 2025 Summit that are submitted by and/or include representation of parent/caregiver and provider voice and that center voices which may include but are not limited to:
For the first time the National Home Visiting Summit will offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for workshops and plenary sessions. CEUs will be issued via standards set up by Start Early as an accredited organization via the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
To meet the necessary standard to issue CEUs all proposals must include measurable learning outcomes and specific engagement strategies grounded in adult learning principles and relevance for the Summit audience. Technical assistance is available during the submission process to support authors. Please take a moment to review the following resources:
| Workshop Speaker/Poster Presenter | $449 |
Travel and Registration for Home Visiting Parents and Caregivers
Limited funds are available for parents and caregivers engaged in home visiting services participating as speakers at the Summit will receive the following to support participation:
The 2025 National Home Visiting Summit is an in-person event. We will not offer the option to speak virtually. All speakers and presenters must be present at the event in Washington, D.C. to participate.
Creating an Accessible Presentation: We ask that all PowerPoint and print-ready materials be prepared in consideration of those with visual limitations. Consideration of color contrast between text and background, font size, use of alternative text for images shared are all important. Tips on creating more accessible presentations can be found at Section508.gov.
We also encourage teams to review these resources from the Web Accessibility Initiative on preparing slides and materials. Start Early will offer a conference branded PowerPoint template that includes accessible formatting as an optional resource for presenting teams. Start Early staff may offer further recommendations on design in meetings with presenters once a proposal has been accepted.
For best practices that include presenting live you can find support here.
Session Length: 60 minutes
Delivery Method: Live (in-person format)
Session Description: Explore topics of common interest using innovative, thought-provoking content blended with audience participation. Presenters act as content leaders, presenting short segments of content and then leading engaging activities, group discussions, and participant reflection on how to apply knowledge to practice.
Attendees participating will engage via opportunities for Q&A and small-group discussion. Meeting rooms will include a mix of tables and theater style seating. Estimated attendance for workshops will range from 70-120+.
Successful proposals will clearly state learning objectives and attendee engagement strategies used in the workshop session.
Workshop speakers are required to present in person at the conference. You will be asked to declare your availability during the abstract submission process.
Session Length: 90 minutes (live)
Delivery Method: Live (in-person format)
Each poster team will receive an in-person booth to host their poster and associated materials. Guidance for recommended printed poster size will be provided. Conference participants engaging in person will have the opportunity to walk around the poster session and engage directly with speakers for Q&A.
Session Length: N/A
Delivery Method: N/A
Session Description: Submit your presentation idea and work with the conference organizer on determining the best format for your session.
The submission process utilizes an online abstract management website powered by Cvent. The submitting author will create a username and password for the website, upload speaker bios/headshots, and complete the questions for the speaking team. The abstract management website allows you to save your progress and return to the website to complete/edit your proposal. You will receive a confirmation email after submitting your proposal. A Start Early planning team member will contact you with a decision in early November 2024.
The conference organizer requires all speakers to provide bios, with the option to include headshots when submitting their proposals. Bios should include each proposed speaker’s experience related to the session topic. The information provided during the proposal process will be used to create your session’s agenda and website content.
To view the abstract submission questions, click here. Please note this document is for reference only. All submissions must be completed online.
Content Management for Accepted Proposals: Speakers will be given access to Speaker Resource Center. This portal will be used to upload , session materials, posters, PowerPoints, and all related resources for your session, along with access to update bios/headshots. The portal will save all the information you provided during the call for proposal. Speakers can upload and remove resources before, during, and after the Summit.
We are eager to support you during the submission process. Please email your inquiries to the conference planning team at Events@StartEarly.org.
Acceptance notifications will be sent to submitting authors by early November. Please note that due to the high volume of proposals, we cannot provide feedback for each submission. Authors interested in receiving feedback are encouraged to email the Summit planning team. The review team will do its best to accommodate all requests for feedback.
We see systems change in home visiting as deeply relational, collaborative work that requires everyone in home visiting and policies, seeking root causes, a wider lens and promoting greater equity with changes in the field. We believe everyone-parents, policymakers, home visitors, funders and others-can be systems change leaders by helping create, implement, and reflect on the best practices and innovations that will push our field forward. The “waters of systems change” framework may be helpful for your thinking.
We welcome proposals and speakers from specific home visiting models if the work is widely applicable to the field. For example, a workshop on community level advocacy could be presented by staff from a specific home visiting model, as long as the approaches shared are accessible to others outside that program model.
Engagement approaches that allow time for attendees to consider, discuss, or actively apply key concepts or questions in smaller groups are often well-received. Opportunities for attendees to ask questions are appreciated. Hearing from more than one presenter in a workshop is common. Cross-disciplinary presentation teams and the voice of families engage diverse audiences make for compelling workshops.
Given the large volume of proposals we receive, we do not provide feedback to every proposal author. We try, when staff capacity allows, to provide feedback upon request.
The questions asked during the review process can be viewed below.
No, you may save your draft and return to it.
The submission portal will be open through August 30, 2024. Changes to your presentation can be made up until the deadline. Changes after the deadline will not be accepted. Teams with speaker updates are encouraged to submit those via email to the Summit team.
As the National Home Visiting Summit returns to D.C. for our first in-person gathering in three years, the Advocacy & Policy Community of Practice (CoP) invites state systems leaders, advocates, policy champions, families, and providers to join us on Capitol Hill to meet with your Congressional leaders to raise awareness about home visiting and the federal priorities needed to sustain and scale its impact on families and communities.
Participants joining the Summit virtually are also encouraged to set up meetings with their Congressional representatives to harness the power of virtual storytelling to build awareness about the impact of high-quality home visiting on families and young children.
In the months leading up to the Summit, the Advocacy & Policy Community of Practice, in partnership with Start Early, is offering a suite of resources to prepare advocates to engage their elected leaders on Capitol Hill. This includes training materials, networking opportunities and individual TA to support participants to effectively communicate with members of their Congressional delegation in January. Jump to the resources below including our Advocacy 101 series. This also included a virtual webinar the CoP hosted on December 12, view the recording here.
Summit attendees – both virtual and in-person – will indicate whether they plan to participate in Capitol Hill visits when registering for the 2024 National Home Visiting Summit. In-person registration is now closed for this year’s conference. Virtual registration is open through February 2.
Questions? Please reach out to us at Advocacy@StartEarly.org
Learn more about Hill visits for in-person and virtual attendees January 31-February 2 at the 2024 National Home Visiting Summit in Washington, D.C.
Capitol Hill Visit Consultation & Strategy Session: January 31, 9 – 10:30 a.m. ET at Grand Hyatt Washington
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
Check out our Advocacy 101 series featuring five short, engaging videos with information and tips on building relationships with elected officials, crafting a message, planning a visit (real and virtual!) and making your visit successful.
This advocacy training series features short videos that highlight the skills parents bring to to table as powerful advocates and elevates opportunities to grow as leaders in advocating for home visiting.
The 2022 National Home Visiting Summit and Communities of Practice were made possible by:
Make sure to register in advance for sessions that indicate registration is required to secure your spot. Capacity is limited for registration required sessions – recordings will be available for those not able to join registration required sessions due to capacity.
Need help? Reach out to Events@StartEarly.org with questions
The 2021 National Home Visiting Summit and Communities of Practice were made possible by:
