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Plenary Sessions from the 2022 National Home Visiting Summit

Watch the recordings of the plenary sessions from the 2022 virtual conference.

The 2022 National Home Visiting Summit brought together over 1,200 systems leaders, researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, key partners and decision makers in a collaborative pursuit to advance the home visiting field and systems of care to increase service quality and improve child and family outcomes.

Attendees at this year’s virtual event participated in workshops, affinity groups, communities of practice and plenary sessions that discussed issues facing the home visiting field today, including innovations in home visiting practices and systems, addressing systematic and structural racism, and improving maternal and child health outcomes.

Making Research More Meaningful Through Community Engagement: Challenges and Opportunities

This plenary focuses on opportunities and challenges of engaging programs, families, and communities in the conduct of home visiting research, moving their role from participants to partners in the process. The plenary highlights two different research teams who have approached home visiting work with this collaborative focus. 

Using Innovative Funding Strategies and Equitable Approaches to Strengthen Early Childhood

This plenary session is focused on the opportunities provided through federal, state, community, and tribal nation initiatives to elevate equitable systems and structures that create pathways to success for all families. This session offers unique perspectives from an expert panel of local, state, tribal, and federal leaders to share successes, challenges, and visions for creating program services and supports that center the voices of families and communities. The panel discussion includes the potential benefits of funding initiatives, such as Build Back Better or increased MIECHV funding, for children and families and how system and program leaders can prepare for implementing additional state or federal funding. In addition, the panel shares experiences, considerations, and lessons learned in creating dynamic systems that have laid a foundation for additional resources that may become available to states and tribal communities across the country.

Home Visiting & Child Welfare: Emerging Family First Opportunities and Challenges

Child welfare system leaders across the country are leveraging the Family First Prevention Services Act to increase family access to home visiting programs and build capacity for upstream prevention. Several states are centering their Family First strategy on home visiting and the creation of community pathways to meet needs early, achieve more equitable outcomes, and realize the prevention intent of the legislation. Opportunities and challenges in this approach are emerging as states submit their five-year Prevention Plan and begin implementation. In this plenary session, Bryan Samuels, the Executive Director of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, facilitates an exploration among several child welfare leaders regarding their strategies, plans, and needs to inform the deepening of partnerships across home visiting and child welfare.

Listen to and Trust Black Mothers: Eviction Research for Action

This plenary describes the methods and preliminary data from the Social Epidemiology to Combat Unjust Residential Evictions (SECURE) Study, a community-based participatory and mixed methods research project focused on court-ordered and illegal residential evictions and their impact on Black women in Metro-Detroit Michigan. This project is for Black women, by Black women, and is focused on collecting evidence for action (including interventions, policy change, and social activism) in service of our shared liberation. We conclude our conversation with the role of home visitors in realizing solutions to housing instability caused by residential evictions.

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