Healthy Steps for Young Children Program (HS): Randomized evaluation finds small short-term effects, but no long-term effects, on parenting practices and child behavior and safety outcomes

The nonprofit, nonpartisan Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy strongly supports the new HHS Home Visiting program, which incorporates key evidence-based approaches that we have promoted through our work with Congressional and Executive Branch policy officials. The program – whose total funding over FY 2010-2014 is $1.5 billion – awards grants to states to implement early childhood home visiting programs, and is required by law to reserve at least 75 percent of its funding for “evidence-based” program models.