Research Brief

Virtually the Same? Virtual Home Visiting in Response to COVID-19 Link copied to clipboard

October 2021

Authors

Jon Korfmacher, Patricia Molloy, and Mary Frese

This brief presents findings from a survey of 658 home visitors across the United States representing multiple models, geographic regions, and communities, about their shift to virtual home visiting because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on how home visitors work with families using interactive video visits.

This survey is part of a larger study conducted by Erikson Institute and the Home Visiting Applied
Research Collaborative (HARC), in a separate brief we report on observing recorded virtual home visits and interviewing home visitors and caregivers from those visits.

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