2016 - 2021
The goal of the Home Visiting Career Trajectories project was to examine the state of home visiting careers to understand how people enter the field, the perceived and actual pathways for professional advancement and tenure, and reasons for field attrition. This work aimed to address the paucity of data on the home visiting workforce that can be used to learn how to best recruit and retain high quality staff. The project had two purposes. First, it provided information on the state of the home visiting sector and the career trajectories of home visitors and recommendations on strategies to build a pipeline of high-quality home visitors and supervisors. Second, it provided information on the professional development system that supports early childhood home visiting, including training and technical assistance supports. To accomplish these goals, the research team accessed pre-existing administrative and survey data, as well as collected new quantitative and qualitative data through two surveys and eight case studies.
Research questions include:
- What does the early childhood home visiting workforce look like?
- What are the career pathways of home visitors and supervisors?
- How are other factors related to the recruitment and retention of home visitors in the field?
- What are the challenges or opportunities in studying the early childhood workforce?
Urban Institute was awarded this contract. This project was led by the Administration for Children and Families in collaboration with the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Point(s) of contact: Tia Brown and Aleta Meyer
This study is registered on the Open Science Framework under the title, Home Visiting Career Trajectories .
Information collections related to this project have been reviewed and approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under OMB #0970-0512. Related materials are available on at the HVCT Information collection page on RegInfo.gov .
The most currently approved document are accessible by clicking on the ICR Ref. No. with the most recent conclusion date. To access the information collections (E.g. interviews, surveys, protocols), click on View Information Collection (IC) List. Click on View Supporting Statement and Other Documents to access other supplementary documents.