Project

Examining Drivers and Impacts of Home Visitor Professional Well-Being

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Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; Administration for Children and Families

Home visitors support caregivers to navigate the ups and downs of raising young children. How can home visiting programs and systems ensure home visitor professional well-being is prioritized so they can provide high-quality services that translate to positive child and family outcomes?

This project uses the Early Head Start (EHS) Family and Child Experiences secondary dataset to—

  • Examine the extent to which EHS home visitors have access to key drivers of professional well-being
  • Describe dimensions of EHS home visitor professional well-being based on measures of job satisfaction and depressive symptoms
  • Examine associations between drivers of professional well-being, dimensions of professional well-being, and the nature and quality of EHS home visitors’ work with families

The study is guided by a conceptual model of home visitor professional well-being created by JBA for the Supporting and Strengthening the Home Visiting Workforce (SAS-HV) project. The team also engages with an EHS practitioner workgroup to inform the interpretation and implication of project findings.

Staff

  • Mariel Sparr, Ph.D., M.A. Vice President

    Mariel Sparr has more than 15 years of experience in applied research and evaluation in the areas of implementation quality, early childhood education...

  • Colleen Morrison, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate

    Colleen Morrison has more than 15 years of experience in program evaluation and applied developmental research. Her areas of expertise include maternal...

  • Eleanor Fisk Eleanor Fisk, Ph.D. Research Associate

    Eleanor Fisk has nearly 10 years of experience in early childhood research, policy, and practice. Her areas of expertise include early childhood development, early...

  • Deisy Rodriguez Ledezma Deisy Rodriguez Ledezma, M.A. Research Assistant

    Deisy Rodriguez Ledezma has a background in social science research and experience in randomized controlled trials, community-based participatory...

about the project

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Client

Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; Administration for Children and Families