Early Childhood Topics

• Head Start/Early Head Start
• Early Care & Education Settings
• Home Visiting
• Early Childhood Education Practices
• Studying Children in a Multicultural Society
• Clients

Webinar on Lessons Learned from Planning and Conducting
Home Visiting Needs Assessments

Join us for the first in a series of webinars from the
Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Cross-Site Evaluation.

When: Thursday, July 29, 2010 • 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. (EST) Register here. Host: Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

To receive funds from the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program for comprehensive, evidence-based home visiting services, each state must conduct a statewide needs assessment. A number of the grantees participating in the Children’s Bureau Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment grantee cluster prepared needs assessments to plan for implementing or expanding evidence-based home visiting services. In spring 2010, as part of the cross-site evaluation, Mathematica collected data on grantees’ experiences conducting needs assessments. Join us for an informational webinar to share lessons learned on how grantees planned the assessments and collected the data, as well as facilitators and barriers to carrying out the assessments.

Speakers:
Diane Paulsell, Associate Director, Human Services Research
Mathematica Policy Research    

Leanne Barrett, Policy Analyst
Rhode Island KIDS COUNT

Rodney Hopkins, Internal Project Evaluator
Utah Department of Health