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Read the HomeEc project's special topics study on the economic experiences of select early childhood home visiting programs and the families they served during the COVID-19 pandemic, including implications that could be relevant for future service delivery disruptions.

This report describes findings from literature and document reviews exploring how to define, measure, and support family economic well-being in early childhood home visiting (ECHV). The findings can provide useful insights to policymakers, researchers, and ECHV practitioners, who can learn about potential avenues to support family economic well-being, and who might be interested in different sections based on their work.

While significant research has come forward to improve our collective understanding of human services programs and their contribution to the economic and social well-being of individuals and families, notable knowledge gaps continue to persist regarding how these programs can best serve the needs and interests of rural communities.

The Supporting Family Economic Well-Being Through Home Visiting (HomeEc) project seeks nominations of practices — that is, services, strategies, or activities — to support family economic well-being.

In the fall of 2016, OPRE brought together a diverse group of participants from federal agencies, research firms, foundations, and academia to discuss alternatives to randomized controlled trials and their assumptions, trade-offs, benefits, and challenges.

There is growing emphasis placed on evidence-based interventions, and opportunities to make programmatic decisions based on evidence reflect progress in promoting positive outcomes. However, some populations (e.g., ethnic and cultural minority communities, marginalized groups) may be left behind in efforts to build evidence, if they are more difficult to study. Over time, as evidence builds for the populations...

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Policymakers and practitioners have a growing interest in answering questions beyond simply “does a program work?” They are also interested in learning how programs work. Mediation analysis is one tool that researchers can use to identify elements of an intervention that do, or do not, lead to improved participant outcomes. Researchers can use the results of a mediation analysis to build knowledge to improve programs...

Policymakers are increasingly interested in using administrative data to address policy-relevant research questions. While researchers generally prefer individual-level administrative data in order to provide maximum flexibility to their analyses, it can be both difficult and costly to obtain. When individual-level data are not available or are too difficult or costly, aggregate administrative data can address many policy-relevant research questions...