Charting a Course: Challenges to Building and Sustaining Effective Home Visitation Programs: Lessons Learned from the States is a Web conference presented by Chapin Hall Center for Children and the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Mounting evidence is showing that well-focused investments in early childhood development yield high public and private returns. Among the different strategies that encourage positive outcomes in young children, home visiting programs have seen some of the most promising results. Many states have made substantial commitments to these programs, which send trained visitors to the homes of expectant and new parents to support them in providing safe, healthy environments to their children.

Panelists include:

Deborah Daro, Research Fellow, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago
Eboni Howard, Associate Research Scientist, Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy at the Erikson Institute
Lisa Schreiber, Director of Healthy Families America, Prevent Child Abuse America
Susan Stepleton, President and CEO, Parents as Teachers National Center
Moderator: Martha Shirk, Author, On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System

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