Families at the Center: Leading for Home Visiting Systems Change

Authors

Callie H. Lambarth, Portland State UniversityFollow
Beth L. Green, Portland State UniversityFollow
Center for Coordinating Oregon Home Visiting Systems

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2024

Subjects

Social work with children -- Oregon, Equity, Social justice

Abstract

The Center for Coordinating Oregon Home Visiting Systems (CCOHVS) launched in February 2024 at the Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services at Portland State University. The CCOHVS functions as a program-neutral backbone organization for a coordinated system of prenatal and early childhood home visiting services. Its work will move the state closer to the vision described in the Raise Up Oregon 2.0 (RUO) strategic plan1 for early childhood systems, namely to create “equitable, integrated, accessible, inclusive, anti-racist and family-centered” early learning services, with a focus on ensuring this system meets the needs of pregnant people and families with infants and toddlers.

To reach this goal, the CCOHVS team uses an inclusive, relationship-focused approach to build on emerging innovations that are building and changing existing systems. Working with local, regional, and state agency partners the CCOHVS team provides needed capacity and support to achieve home visiting system goals, including ensuring family leadership in home visiting system transformation at the state and local levels.

To this end, the CCOHVS team prepared this Learning Brief, which summarizes key principles and practices that Oregon’s Home Visiting System Initiatives (HVSI) governance and advisory groups should consider in their approaches to engaging families in leadership and decision-making to inform and shape home visiting systems change.

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© 2024 Portland State University

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42763

Citation Details

Lambarth, C. H. & Green, B. L. (2024). Families at the center: Leading for home visiting systems change. Portland, OR: Center for Improvement of Child & Family Services, Portland State University.