Service Coordination in Early Childhood Home Visiting: a Multiple-Case Study.

ABSTRACT: Early childhood home visiting is a preventive service delivery strategy that aims to promote child and parent health, positive parenting, child development and school readiness, and family economic self-sufficiency. To meet families' needs, programs provide a combination of direct services, and referrals and linkages to community-based services. Service coordination is therefore a critical component of home visiting's role within the early childhood system of care. This multiple-case study describes facilitators and barriers to service coordination, as identified by home visiting program staff and families. We interviewed program managers, supervisors, home visitors, and families from four local home visiting programs in the eastern USA with diverse contextual characteristics that showed e

SUBMITTER: Correll L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10423702 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature