Assessment and Mapping of Community Connections in Home Visiting: Final Report

Referrals to outside community services are vital for the success of the families that home visiting programs serve. Recognizing the importance of these referrals, the Administration for Children and Families partnered with the Health Resources and Services Administration and contracted with Child Trends and Trilogy Interactive to design a prototype for a tool to enhance home visiting stakeholders’ understanding of community connections in the home visiting context.

The project efforts are relevant for federal staff, state administrators, tribal and non-tribal local implementing agencies, state-level early childhood coordinators, technical assistance providers, home visiting model and tool developers, and researchers. This report provides a summary of the work the project team completed to develop a final prototype of a tool that would help home visiting professionals and partners better understand community connections between home visiting programs and other community service providers.