Using a Developmental Approach to Evaluation Capacity Building in Home Visiting.

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, administered by the Health Resources and Service Administration in collaboration with the Administration for Children and Families, provides evidence-based home visiting services across 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories. MIECHV invests in comprehensive technical assistance (TA) to support and build the capacity of awardees to conduct rigorous evaluations of their programs. Throughout the course of the evaluation process, awardees received TA from the Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation project. Between 2011 and 2020, over 173 state-led evaluations have been conducted. Individual technical assistance (TA) modalities included conference calls, emails, interactive and individualized webinars, developing and sharing resources, and involvement of content experts. When issues and challenges were identified across multiple awardees, Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation (DOHVE) delivered targeted group TA to awardees with common needs that may benefit from peer-to-peer learning. When cross-cutting issues and challenges were identified, DOHVE used universal approaches such as webinars and guidance documents that were made available to all awardees.Through the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, efforts have been taken to promote awardee capacity by targeting all phases of the evaluation process, including planning, implementing, and disseminating findings and providing TA that is responsive and tailored to meet awardee-specific needs. This approach enabled DOHVE to support MIECHV awardees in expanding knowledge of their programs and the evidence base on home visiting. Lessons learned from TA provision highlight the importance of developing feasible plans and providing ongoing support during implementation.

Correction to: Introduction to the Special Issue on Taking Home Visiting to Scale: Findings from the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program State-Led Evaluations.

The article "Introduction to the Special Issue on Taking Home Visiting to Scale: Findings from the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program State-Led Evaluations", written by Nicole Denmark, Kyle Peplinski, Mariel Sparr, Judy Labiner-Wolfe, Susan Zaid, Pooja Gupta and Kassie Mae Miller, was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 19 June 2018 without open access. With the author(s)' decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 18 July 2018 to

Introduction to the Special Issue on Taking Home Visiting to Scale: Findings from the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program State-Led Evaluations.

The Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program is a two-generation approach to supporting healthy families through home visits during pregnancy and early childhood. All states and territories receiving MIECHV funding are encouraged to evaluate their programs. This special issue highlights evaluations from 11 awardees-Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. With the wide expansion of home visiting since the onset of MIECHV, the state-led evaluations contribute to the understanding of replication and scale-up of evidence-based home visiting.

FIRST-GENERATION LATINA MOTHERS' EXPERIENCES OF SUPPLEMENTING HOME-BASED EARLY HEAD START WITH THE ATTACHMENT AND BIOBEHAVIORAL CATCH-UP PROGRAM.

This qualitative pilot study examined first-generation Latina mothers' experiences of supplementing home-based Early Head Start (EHS) services with the evidence-based Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC; M. Dozier, O. Lindheim, & J. Ackerman, 2005) program. Ten low-income, first-generation Latina mothers with infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based EHS were provided 10 ABC home visits by a supplemental parent coach. Following delivery of ABC, mothers participated in in-depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews about their experiences. Interview themes included positive experiences of both EHS and the ABC, a high value placed on receiving both programs, and cultural relevance of the ABC program for Latino families. Participants offered several suggestions for improved program delivery. Study findings suggest that a model of EHS supplemented by ABC delivered to the Latino community is feasible, valuable to participants, and culturally relevant. Considerations for sustainability of this supplemental model are discussed.

Detached parenting and toddler problem behavior in Early Head Start families.

This study examined detached parenting among Early Head Start mothers, and associated maternal characteristics and child behavior. Participants included 81 mother-child dyads. Data were collected in participants' homes during two visits. Mothers reported on demographic factors, parenting stress, and children's problem behaviors. Children's neurodevelopment was assessed, and videotaped parent-child play interactions were coded. Path analyses indicated that demographic risk factors and parenting stress were associated with higher levels of detached parenting. As a mediator, detached parenting significantly predicted children's later problem behavior. There was a direct effect of parenting stress on children's behavior problems, but no direct effect of children's neurodevelopmental risk. Detached parenting partially mediated the influence of parenting stress on children's problem behavior. The final model moderately accounted for the variance in detached parenting and children's problem behaviors. The results suggest that parents who experience multiple risks and high levels of parenting stress are more likely to demonstrate detached parenting. In addition, detached parenting leads to higher levels of toddler problem behavior, and may increase the problem behavior displayed by toddlers of parents experiencing multiple risks and parenting stress. These findings are discussed in the context of infant mental health practice.