Home Visiting Tool Kit

About Home Visiting

• Maximizing the Impact of State Early Childhood Home Visitation Programs
• Home Visiting Programs, Issue Brief, Voices for Maryland's Children
• Home Visiting and Maternal Depression:  Seizing the Opportunities to Help
  Mothers and Youth Children 
  • Abstract Version
  • PDF Version
• Home-Visiting Intervention to Improve Child Care Among American Indian
  Adolescent Mothers
• Zero to Three Home Visiting Community Planning Tool - New tool from Zero to Three for those interested in establishing new or expanding existing home visiting services that helps communities consider important factors in ensuring quality service delivery that both meets the expressed community need and promotes fidelity to the core components of the evidence based-model(s) selected.

Selecting a Home Visiting Model

• Description of Wisconsin Approved Home Visiting Models
• Ten Evidence-Based Practices for Home Visiting Programs Overview of Home
  Visiting Implementation Guidelines—ACF Chart
• Home Visiting: Evidence of Effectiveness Review
• Overview of Home Visiting Implementation Guidelines

Building a Coalition

• Community Conversation Guide Collaboration
• Community Conversation Guide (expanded version)
• Minnesota Department of Health: Building a Team
  • Worksheet:  Is your team on the road to success?
  • Table:  We need to make a decision
• Free Information about Coalition/Community Building
  • Ohio State Extension - This is a series of fact sheets to help develop and/or enhance effective coalitions.
  • Fieldstone Alliance This website includes a variety of free articles and worksheets about community/coalition building, working cross-culturally, and effective non-profit management.
  • University of Kansas Community Tool Box - This is a great resource for individuals and organizations to create healthier communities.

What Does Being Evidence-Based Mean?

• Evidence-Based Practice
• Evidence-based Practice:  Myths and Realities
• Early Childhood Program Evaluation Guide for Decision-Makers
• TA Session Presentation
• Rating Criteria for Evidence-Based Programs

Creating a Logic Model

• The logic model for Program Planning and Evaluation
• Logic Model Builders
• Kellogg Foundation Tool

Program Sustainability

• Tool Kit for Program Sustainability
• Program Sustainability:  Developing Strategies for Maintaining Programs
• Planning for Program Sustainability
• MA Billing and Home Visiting Services in Wisconsin

Helpful Websites

• Covering Kids and Families Wisconsin
  • General Information
  • Public Benefit one-pagers that are county-specific (Spanish & English)
• Wisconsin Medicaid / BadgerCare Plus
  • Directions to Obtain Information Through the Portal
    To obtain information through the Forward Health portal for Targeted Case Management (TCM) and Prenatal Care Coordination (PNCC) Benefit Programs: Go to the left column, click on the link <Online Handbooks> then choose <BadgerCare Plus and Medicaid> in the "choose a program" dropdown box. The various handbooks are listed alphabetically under the "choose a service area" drop down box.
  • General Information about BadgerCare Plus
  • ACCESS website
  • Targeted Case Management (TCM) and Prenatal Care Coordination (PNCC) presentation
• Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners (WECCP)
• What It Will Take series from the Wisconsin Council on Children & Families and the Children’s Trust Fund

Resources for Implementing High Quality Home Visiting  

• Reflective Supervision
  • Art of Mirroring - Part I
  • Art of Mirroring - Part II
  • Summary of the Nine Types of Supervisory Style

  General Information

  • Administration of Children and Families Home Visiting
  • Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
    • Wisconsin Head Start Collaborating Office
    • Governor's Early Child Advisory Council (ECAC)
  • Wisconsin Department of Health Services
  • Children's Trust Fund
  • Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

  Technical Support/Questions

  • Leslie McAllister, DCF Home Visitation Coordinator