Home Visiting Direct

Early Childhood Home Visiting

Home Visiting Service Models

• NSW Early Intervention Services
• NSW Families First
• BestStart (Victoria)
• Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
• Parents as Teachers
• Nurse-Family Partnership (David Olds, USA)
• National Health Service, Community Child Mental Health Services (UK)

NSW Early Intervention Services

This link will take you to the NSW Families First website which lists early intervention services in New South Wales.

http://www.familiesfirst.nsw.gov.au/public/s37_early_intervention/default.aspx

NSW Families First

This document details a model for development of service networks to support families with young children in NSW.

http://www.familiesfirst.nsw.gov.au/uploads/3bb67eeb-954e-4bf8-a42e-4990b88f07a67.pdf

BestStart (Victoria)

Best Start aims to improve the health, development, learning and well-being of all children across Victoria from pregnancy through transition to school (taken to be children 0-8 years of age).

Best Start will achieve this aim through supporting communities, parents, families and service providers to improve universal local early years service systems. These improvements will: result in better access to child and family support, health services and early education improve the capacity and confidence of parents to be, parents and families to care for children and help them to enjoy parenting assist communities to become more child friendly. This means that together we can give children the best possible start for their future health, education and social well-being. Best Start is auspiced by the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education and Training and assisted by the Community Support Fund.

This report was commissioned from the Centre for Community Child Health to provide the Best Start project with a clear understanding of international and Australian programs, interventions and services which have been tested and evaluated to demonstrate benefits to young children or their families. The report is a key resource for Best Start local partnerships.

http://www.beststart.vic.gov.au/docs/Effective%20Programs%20Project-1002v1.2.pdf

Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)

This document provides details of the HIPPY program, a program of home visiting by home tutors aimed at improve early education outcomes.

http://www.hippyaustralia.org.au/howdoesitwork.htm

Parents as Teachers

This document details the program model for Parents as Teachers.

http://www.patnc.org/pdf%20files/PAT%20Logic%20Model%20-%20May%202004.pdf

Nurse-Family Partnership (David Olds, USA)

This document from the National Center for Children, Families and Communities provides details of the Nurse-Family Partnership model designed by David Olds and partners and implemented in various locations across the USA.

http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/pdfs/descriptionNFP.pdf

National Health Service, Community Child Mental Health Services (UK)

This document details the framework utilised by the National Health Service in the UK for the development of parenting initiatives to improve child mental health outcomes, including the Parent Advisor Model (Hilton Davis).

http://www.cpcs.org.uk/pdf/Day_&_Davis_1999.pdf