Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Innovation Technical Assistance Center (MIECHV ITAC)

Challenge

To meet the changing needs of families and communities, home visiting programs need to continually evolve and improve. Yet programs are very busy supporting family health and well-being, providing quality services, and addressing immediate needs. They can find it very difficult to identify, test, and implement new strategies to improve services.

EDC’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Innovation Technical Assistance Center (MIECHV ITAC) served as the continuous quality improvement (CQI) partner to home visiting programs nationwide. ITAC helped MIECHV Program Innovation awardees use new technology and data collection to drive CQI, improve services, and better meet families’ needs. The center leveraged the success and expertise of two other EDC home visiting initiatives: the MIECHV Technical Assistance Resource Center and Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network 3.0.

Key Activities

MIECHV ITAC staff:

• Provided one-to-one technical assistance (TA) for each awardee team
• Implemented an ongoing learning collaborative to foster peer learning and support
• Created extensive tools, resources, and online learning events driven by awardee needs
• Facilitated all-awardee meetings to highlight best practices and encourage collaboration
• Developed and shared products, including webinars and written resources, to support all 56 MIECHV awardees

Our Impact

• The MIECHV ITAC improved home visiting through its support of seven innovation awardees in eight states and its resources for 56 MIECHV awardees.
• Recipients of MIECHV ITAC TA support reported high levels of satisfaction, with 100% indicating they were satisfied or extremely satisfied with the support.
• MIECHV ITAC awardees demonstrated improved telehealth service delivery, use of CQI to address priority maternal and child health outcomes, and data system interoperability.