he Effectiveness of Early Childhood Home isitation in Preventing Violence

n early childhood home visitation programs, parents and children are visited at home during the child’s first 2 years of life by trained personnel who rovide some combination of information, support, or raining about child health, development, and care. ome visitation has been used to meet a wide range of bjectives, including improvement of the home envionment, family development, and the prevention of hild behavior problems. The Task Force on Commuity Preventive Services (the Task Force) has conducted systematic review of scientific evidence of the effeciveness of early childhood home visitation for preventng violence, with a focus on violence by and against uveniles. The Task Force recommends early childhood ome visitation for preventing child abuse and neglect, n the basis of strong evidence of effectiveness. The ask Force found insufficient evidence to determine he effectiveness of early childhood home visitation in reventing violence by visited children, violence by isited parents (other than child abuse and neglect), or ntimate partner violence in visited families. This report ives additional information about the findings, includng diverse outcome measures and results in study opulation subsamples, describes how the reviews were onducted, provides information that can help in aplying the intervention locally, and recommends addiional research.