Suggested Guidelines for Continuous Quality Improvement for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grantees

To receive federal funding, grantees of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) must submit a plan for continuous quality improvement (CQI) with their updated state plans. Grantees do not need to use a specific format, but they are expected to provide a current-self assessment of the home visiting program and a thorough plan for improving CQI capacity.

This technical assistance document outlines seven areas for inclusion in grantees’ CQI plans:

• Infrastructure for driving improvements
• Leveraging current resources
• Description of management information system
• Data collection design
• Reporting
• Alignment and integration of CQI plan with benchmark reporting
• Building and sustaining CQI infrastructure