EDC Experts Present at National Home Visiting Workforce Convening
Twelve EDC maternal and child health experts delivered intensive professional learning sessions to strengthen the home visiting workforce at the National Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) All-Grantee Meeting on November 17 to 20 in Washington, DC. Led by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the annual All-Grantee Meeting supports the home visiting workforce in using innovative and effective strategies to enhance the well-being of expectant mothers, infants, children and families nationwide.
At the 2025 convening, Amanda Innes, Acting Director of the Division of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems and EDC’s Allison LaMont, Director of the Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development solicited state MIECHV program leaders’ input on a forthcoming home visiting campaign, “A National Strategy for the Home Visiting Workforce.” Slated to be launched in spring 2026, the campaign will spotlight career opportunities in home visiting and raise awareness of the vital role that home visiting plays in child well-being and school readiness, strong communities, and workforce success across the U.S.
We invite you to learn more about EDC’s Maternal and Child Health Work and explore our sessions below.
Sessions
November 17 (8:30 AM–12:30 PM). HRSA’s Ayanna Williams and EDC’s Zhandra Levesque, Drewallyn Riley, and Anna Hanel provided a “Beginner Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training.” During this session, state program leaders deepened their understanding of how to use the PDSA cycle to improve home visiting services and learned techniques to deliver effective feedback to local home visiting agencies in their states.
November 17 (8:30 AM–12:30 PM). EDC’s Tricia Finnerty, Sara Voelker, Rachael Glisson, and Jessica Ehule presented, “Advanced CQI Training – Key Driver Diagrams (KDD).” Participants walked away with best practices for creating and using KDD in their work to test, apply, and refine new strategies to improve home visiting services.
November 17 (4:00–5:00 PM) & November 18 (12:00–1:30 PM). On November 17, Tricia Finnerty and Anna Hanel delivered “Sustaining Your Improvement Wins.” Participants explored effective approaches from EDC’s Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (HV CoIIN) that they can apply to their states’ work to improve outcomes for children and families. On November 18, Jessica Ehule, Anna Hanel, and Lindsey Conley hosted a lunch time gathering, “HV CoIIN Community Connect: Learn, Share, & Network.”
November 18 (9:45 AM–12:00 PM). During the two-part session “Deepening Early Relational Health.” EDC’s Zhandra Levesque and Mary Mackrain, David Willis of Nurture Connection, and Lauren Brown of Ohio Department of Children and Youth shared successes and stories from HV CoIIN’s Caregiver-Child Interaction CoIIN.
November 18 (9:45 AM–12:00 PM). EDC’s Amy Huffer, Drewallyn Riley, and Roselia Ramirez engaged participants in the two-part session, “Assembly Required: Co-Creating Tools That Strengthen Home Visitor Support.”
November 18 (11:00 AM–12:00 PM). EDC’s Tricia Finnerty, Rachael Glisson, and Charlotte McDonald of the Minnesota Department of Health presented the session, “Practical Strategies for Turning Small Wins into System-Wide Change in Home Visiting.”
November 19 (9:45–10:45 AM). EDC’s Roselia Ramirez, Laura Nerenberg and Nancy Margie of the Administration for Children and Families Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, and Cat MacDonald of Association of State and Tribal Home Visiting Initiatives presented the session, “From Data to Story: Using MIHOPE (Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation) Findings to Share the Impact of Home Visiting.”
November 19 (9:45 AM–12:00 PM). EDC’s Zhandra Levesque, Anna Hanel, and Heather Johnson of the University of Alabama at Birmingham shared findings and insights in the session “Strengthening Conversations on Intimate Partner Violence in Home Visiting: Lessons from a National Improvement Sprint.”
November 19 (9:45 AM–12:00 PM). EDC’s Rachael Glisson and Mary Mackrain facilitated an in-depth, two-part dialogue among state MIECHV program awardees and home visiting model developers. Learn more about effective, evidence-based home visiting models.
November 20 (9:00–10:00 AM). EDC’s Amy Huffer, Allison West of the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative, and Emily Heberlein of James Bell Associates presented “Bridging Research and Practice to Strengthen Case Management in Home Visiting.” During this session, they shared findings from their work on Identifying, evaluating, and disseminating best practices and strategies for case management.
