HARC

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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Featured Items from HARC

  • HARC Webinar Series

    Partnership-Engaged Research to Advance Home Visiting: Iowa's Integrated Data System Approach

    April 2, 2026, 12-1pm ET. This webinar will summarize the history and development of the creation of Iowa’s Integrated Data System for Decision-Making (I2D2). I2D2 is a collaboration between health, human services, education, and workforce agencies, and university partners. It's purpose is to generate administrative data for population-wide needs assessments, strategic planning, and ongoing program evaluation. Dr. Rouse will share foundational experiences comprising the development of the state-university partnership, key elements of the governance and technology solutions within I2D2, and specific uses of the system to advance home visiting programming statewide.

    Registration now open!
  • 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.

    RoHVR Checklist
  • 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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Membership is open to all who work in home visiting or are interested in home visiting research.
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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!

2025 Year in Review

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