Early Impact Virginia is a public-private partnership that brings together Virginia’s home visiting and early childhood leaders to advance the delivery of high quality, efficient services. Early Impact Virginia is housed within Families Forward Virginia, a non-profit organization dedicated to building healthier, stronger, more self-sufficient families by partnering with families and communities. Early Impact Virginia works across Virginia’s eight early childhood home visiting models (CHIP of Virginia, Early Head Start, Family Spirit, Healthy Families Virginia, Healthy Start Loving Steps, Nurse Family Partnership, Parents As Teachers, Resource Mothers) to demonstrate impact and return on investment, while leading the effort to alleviate fiscal and workforce burdens by streamlining data collection and reporting.

In 2018, the Virgina General Assembly granted Early Impact Virginia the authority and responsibility to determine, systematically track, and report annually on the key activities and outcomes of Virginia’s home visiting programs; conduct systematic and statewide needs assessments for Virginia’s home visiting programs at least once every three years; and support continuous quality improvement, training, and coordination across Virginia’s home visiting programs on an ongoing basis.

In 2019, Early Impact Virginia and the Alliance for Early Childhood Home Visiting worked together with key stakeholders to develop a set of uniform indicators to yield actionable information for maximizing the positive impact of Virginia’s home visiting system. The resulting list of uniform indicators was informed by data elements currently collected and tracked by each home visiting model in Virginia, as well as other states’ and national metrics.

These uniform indicators, when analyzed with demographic and other descriptive variables, enables Virginia to:

• Identify emergent service delivery needs to increase the precision of services and upskill the home visiting workforce;

• Strategically target resources to families and communities with the greatest need;

• Ensure accountability;

• Prompt quality improvements across programs; and

• Drive innovation and sustainability.

Most importantly, Virginia’s Uniform Indicators for Home Visiting enables Early Impact Virginia to tell the story of how children, families, and communities benefit from home visiting services delivered by qualified professionals across the Commonwealth.

Read the entire Virginia Home Visiting Uniform Indicators & Data Solution by clicking HERE.