JBA staff will again participate in Start Early’s National Home Visiting Summit to advance the home visiting field. On March 14, Mariel Sparr will speak as part of the summit’s opening panel on strengthening home visiting. That afternoon, she will join colleagues Heather Johnson and Colleen Morrison in presenting a workshop on identifying key drivers to measure and strengthen home visitor professional well-being. A March 15 panel on the safe, ethical collection and use of disaggregated data will be facilitated by Crystal Coles and Executive Vice President Jill Filene.

For the third time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summit will feature a mix of live and prerecorded sessions along with virtual networking. See below for a full list of JBA participation:

Live Sessions

Voices from the Field: Building Policies and Practices That Strengthen Home Visiting
March 14, 10–11:15 a.m. (CT)
Jeanna Capito, National Alliance of Home Visiting Models, Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting Collaborative; Tyler Reynolds, Easterseals Jumpstart Home Visiting Program; Mariel Sparr, JBA; Devyn St. Pierre, Healthy Families Massachusetts; April Lynn Winters, Tiwa Babies

Identifying Opportunities to Measure and Strengthen Home Visitor Professional Well-Being
March 14, 12:45–1:45 p.m. (CT)
Heather Johnson, Colleen Morrison, and Mariel Sparr, JBA

Disaggregated Data: An Honest Conversation
March 14, 3:30–4:30 p.m. (CT)
Crystal Coles and Jill Filene, JBA

HARC: Producing High Impact Research in Home Visiting
March 15, 2:30–3:30 p.m. (CT)
Deb Daro, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago; Jill Filene, JBA; Allison West, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Available On Demand

The 2022 Home Visiting Yearbook: Changing Landscapes
Alexandra Joraanstad, Allison Meisch, and Amanda Thomson, JBA

Home Visiting as a Component of Early Childhood Systems: Highlights from California
Diana Careaga, First 5 LA; Brooke Frost, Brooke Frost and Associates; Julie Leis, JBA; Cynthia Minkovitz, Johns Hopkins University