1. Virginia Home Visiting Consortium
Laurel Aparicio, Director

2. A collaboration of statewide early childhood home visiting
programs serving families of children from birth through age five.
CHIP of Virginia
Early Head Start
Healthy Families
Healthy Start/Loving Steps
Nurse Family Partnership
Parents as Teachers
Resource Mothers
10 years—improving collaboration, leveraging resources for effectiveness and efficiency and to reduce duplication
Strong partnerships and relationships have allowed the HVC to build an effective, non-competitive approach to supporting all models and advancing the field

3. Virginia Home Visiting 2015
9,000 Families
110 Communities
450 Home Visitors
7.5 % of Need
$ 34 Million
Home visiting programs have been providing services for more than 25 years. Based on best practice principles
Research continues to demonstrate the importance of intervening early to give kids the absolute best opportunity for lifelong health, learning and happiness.
Home visiting focusses on supporting parents to be their child’s first and most important teacher.
As a relationship based, long term strategy, home visitors are able to provide the support necessary for meaningful change.
Currently---
HVC Member Program Capacity (2015)

4. Virginia Early Childhood Home Visiting Existing State Funding (FY’16)
Expanding Services
Virginia Early Childhood Home Visiting
State Funding FY’ 2017
Existing State Funding (FY’16)
New TANF Funds (FY’17)
Total FY’17 Funding
CHIP of Virginia
$ 2,232,942
$ 1,000,000
$ 3,232,942
Healthy Families VA
$ 4,285,501
$ 4,750,000
$ 9,035,501
Resource Mothers
$ ,248*
Total
$ 7,306,691
$ 6,750,000
$13,268,443
Significant because first time the HVC presented a unified plan for expansion.
Expansion plan designed to support smart, effective growth through targeted expansion and extensive capacity building.
This collaborative approach was the culmination of not only the many years of working together in partnership, but also because of the extensive sustainability planning project.
This planning allowed the HVC to develop the strategies necessary to advocate for the most effective growth strategies
*One year allocation of VDH Special Revenue Funds

5. Supporting Sustainability
HVC Evolution:
Creating the Unified Intermediary
Advancing Effective Growth Strategies
Describe process—how it was different
Ours was really quite different in that it morphed into more of a strategic planning process as we realized that true sustainability for home visiting is predicated on our ability to advance home visiting as an industry rather than as a collection of separate/unique programs.
And, so, we determined that the best next step was for the HVC to evolve into a more formal organization and to become an independent intermediary—to create a new unified mission, message and organizational structure to showcase the value of home visiting services and increase and diversify revenue to support long-term sustainability.
And, so rather than simply identifying funding strategies, the HVC adopted a very ambitious plan to develop a Unified Intermediary, to work towards integrating service delivery through partnership and to diversify revenue. As a result of this process, my position was created and I began working with the HVC just over a year ago.
We have also been hard at work taking the next steps towards formalizing the organization and I’m pleased to share that we have a new home. Our two largest private providers – Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (HF) and CHIP of VA have decided to take their partnership to the next level and consolidate their organizations to provide a home for the HVC. This will take place over the next year at which point, our evolution will be complete.

6. M I S S I O N
The Virginia Home Visiting Consortium advances the delivery of high quality, efficient services that improve the health, social, and educational outcomes for new and expecting parents, young children, and their families within safe homes and connected communities.
Our mission has remained relatively constant through the years and our focus continues to be on advancing the delivery of high quality, efficient services. We do this in four very distinct ways—

7. Core Strategies GUIDE COLLABORATE LEAD RESEARCH Coaching
Professional Development
Technical Assistance
COLLABORATE
Public-Private Partnerships
Leverage resources
Improve efficiency and reach
LEAD
Resource Development
Innovation
Advocacy
RESEARCH
Data Collection and Analysis
Evaluation
Continuous Quality Improvement
By Guiding through the provision of professional development
By Leading in resource development to support diversified funding, by driving innovation at all levels and by continuing to advocate for investment in effective service strategies—like home visiting
By continuing to collaborate to leverage resources and minimize duplication
And, through Research – adopting common data indicators across home visiting programs to demonstrate effectiveness and continuing to support the rigorous evaluation that is the hallmark of evidence based early childhood home visiting

8. Home Visiting Consortium
Local Home Visiting Programs
State level Home Visiting
Early Childhood System
It is important to understand that at any given time, we are working at multiple levels to ensure effectiveness. home visiting programs are community based and for the most part locally administered. While this can really helped to strengthen programs, it also creates a number of challenges for coordinating and supporting coordinated systems of care. So, as I discuss our current projects, you will see how our work often crosses over many of our core strategies and across systems at multiple levels.
Home Visiting Consortium

9. Virginia HVC: Supporting Sustainable Growth
Sustainability
Qualified Workforce
Public Awareness
Accountability
Resource Development
Community Capacity
Innovation
Long term sustainability is not just about $. We must invest in the infrastructure needed to support high quality, efficient service delivery and smart, effective growth.

10. Professional Development
Competency Based Professional Development System
National Academy for Home Visitors
Virginia Home Visitor Certification
Statewide Conference
Allison training
Reflective Supervision
VIRGINIA HOME VISITING/EARLY INTERVENTION UNIVERSAL SUPERVISOR COMPETENCIES
NA=cooperative model—reduce duplication
--undergrad credit
--transferable national certification

11. Collaborating for Effectiveness
Referral and Service Coordination
Data and Reporting Alignment
Resource Development
Cross Sector Training
Constantly working with our partners in
Social Services,
Health Care,
Behavioral Health
Education
Common data indicators to demonstrate effectiveness, impact and ROI
Reduce administrative burden for local programs
Cross sector Medicaid workgroup
Cross sector training

12. Early Childhood System Development
Needs
Services
High tides lift all boats. Our long-term sustainability is predicated on our ability to work within a comprehensive early childhood system of care.
Thank you for allowing me to share and to all of our partners who have been working tirelessly on this work for so many years. It’s been an incredible year for EC in Virginia and we are so proud to be partners in this work with you. We can’t wait to see what happens next!

13. www.homevisitingva.com Directory of Programs Training Information
Resources
And, more….