Contextual factors influence home visiting outcomes in both positive and negative ways; either enhancing effectiveness or diminishing impact. Part of HARC’s work is to identify…
Research Innovation Toward Precision Home Visiting
The Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC) is a national research and development platform for innovation to broaden and strengthen home visiting's benefits for all families and communities.
Featured Items from HARC
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Big News from HARC!
HARC is pleased to announce the funding of four important research projects in home visiting.
These projects will conduct innovative research that explores emerging and enduring issues in early childhood home visiting. Two will carry out research that uses shared or linked data sources, the other two will leverage HARC’s practice-based research network. We look forward to sharing updates around this work in the coming months.
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HARC Webinar Series
Experimentation to Guide Decisions on How to Adapt Interventions to Person, Place, and Time
Interventions often require modifications due to resource constraints, response to intervention, or contextual factors. Traditional randomized controlled trials require a predefined intervention, which only evaluates the overall package without exploring which adaptations could be optimized. Newer methods, like Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials and Microrandomized Trials, enable testing decision criteria during a trial. This webinar will provide an overview of these methods and their potential applications in home visiting. Tuesday, January 13th, from 12-1pm ET.
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RoHVR Checklist
Reporting of Home Visiting Research Checklist
HARC developed the Reporting of Home Visiting Research (RoHVR) Checklist to introduce home visiting-focused guidelines for integrating key reporting elements across multiple study designs. The guidelines are intended to improve the quality of reporting about home visiting research and evaluation. This brief introduces the potential uses of the RoHVR Checklist and how it was developed before outlining its structure and components.
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The Precision Paradigm
To strengthen family engagement and home visiting’s benefits for families, we need a different approach to research. We need to focus on interventions within and across home visiting models. We need to answer the question: What works best, for which families, in which contexts, why, and how?
The Latest HARC Resources
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2025 Year in Review
Marking milestones: Review of the progress and success HARC has achieved this year.
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Get Connected
Join our Practice-Based Research Network!
Membership is open to all who work in home visiting or are interested in home visiting research.
Brief Enrollment Survey Here!
Interested in Conducting Collaborative Studies with Local Home Visiting Programs
All HARC members are welcome to propose a study with the practice-based research network.
Propose a Study!
Browse Home Visiting Research, Toolkits and Literature Updates
HARC Resource Library contains all of the research briefs, peer-reviewed publications, data collection tools, presentations and toolkits.
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Home Visiting Peer Reviewed Literature Updates
Each month, HARC collates recently published peer-reviewed home visiting research articles. Articles are identified via a Google Scholar alert, thus the list may not include…
HARC 2025 Year in Review
2025 has been an incredible year for HARC! We have marked milestones and achievements as shown in the image to the right. Your support of HARC and our work means everything to us – thank you for being a part of our journey!
