Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly influencing research and evaluation in home visiting. To better understand how AI is being used in the field, HARC surveyed…
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.
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Fall Webinar Series
Precision = Pathway to Family Engagement and Retention, Patti Manz, October 20th, 12pm ET
Home visiting that supports families’ goals for their children’s well-being engages and retains families. In this webinar, Patti Manz will present the Little Talks program as an illustration of individualized implementation of evidence-based child-focused communication and language practices in home visiting. Little Talks has been designed and evaluated in partnership with home visiting professionals and families. As a comprehensive professional development and parenting intervention, Little Talks has proven to improve the quality of home visiting services and benefit parents and young children, which are necessary for engagement and retention. Webinar attendees will learn about home visitors’ strategies to individualize Little Talks as well as the professional coaching support that they received. Attendees will have the opportunity to consider application of these processes to their home visiting programs
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Find an Expert Initiative
Request Research Assistance from HARC Experts
Do you need advice on a research topic, question, or method? Use HARC's Find an Expert initiative to get connected with a HARC researcher or evaluator with the expertise that you need.
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Home Visiting Research Discovery Program
Research Discovery Program Scholars
Congratulations to our first cohort of seven exceptional scholars for the Research Discovery Program. This is a mentoring program for home visiting practitioners, which aims to strengthen home visiting practitioners’ research skills and involvement. Cohort scholars will learn skills to enhance their capacity to do research, use research to inform practice, and explore research careers. The program will run from January 2026 to December 2026.
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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?
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Research Tool
Community-Engaged Research: Annotated Bibliography
This annotated bibliography provides resources including how to develop and implement community-engaged research projects. Community-engaged research is a collaborative approach that brings together researchers and…
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.
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Browse Home Visiting Research, Toolkits and Literature Updates
Search the HARC Resource Library - research briefs, peer-reviewed publications, data collection tools, presentations, toolkits and more!
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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's 10th Annual Collaborative Science of Home Visiting Meeting
Save the Date and Register now for HARC’s 10th annual meeting – September 28, 2026, in Baltimore, MD.
The meeting will take place the afternoon before the 2026 National Home Visiting Summit.
More information and the registration link can be found on the Annual Meeting page, button below.
