Supporting the Vision for a Statewide Home Visiting System
Launched in January 2024, the Center for Coordinating Oregon Home Visiting Systems functions as a program-neutral backbone organization to coordinate the system of prenatal and early childhood home visiting services.
Early Learning Council Priority Area: Home Visiting Strategies and Action Items from Raise Up Oregon
Home Visiting Strategies and Action Items, and Raise Up Oregon System Plan
The work of CCOHVS will move the state closer to the vision described in Raise Up Oregon 2.0 (RUO), the comprehensive early childhood system plan for creating “equitable, integrated, accessible, inclusive, anti-racist and family-centered” early learning services. Prenatal and early childhood home visiting services are a critical component of this system, as evidenced by the 18 specific RUO strategies that identify the key role for home visiting and the need for improved coordination of these critical supports.
Our Story
Oregon’s commitment to early childhood health, development and family support is reflected in its many home visiting services and programs.
These programs provide high-quality, comprehensive services to families with young children, starting prenatally through age 5 and beyond. While there have been considerable federal, state and local investments in home visiting services over the past 20 years, agencies and programs have struggled to work together as a coordinated and aligned system.
The result is a fragmented, uncoordinated set of programs that families experience as complicated and confusing, which creates barriers for families that perpetuate inequities in access and quality across the state.
In response, the Oregon Early Learning Council prioritized home visiting system coordination as a key goal in 2022-23, and adopted a set of comprehensive recommendations for home visiting system transformation. In late 2023, key leaders moved forward with private/public, cross-sector investments in CCOHVS to provide the necessary staffing and other resources.
The CCOHVS team’s inclusive, relationship-focused approach builds on existing structures and systems; systems leaders can respond to these recommendations by implementing and learning from innovative strategies that align with the Early Learning Council’s long-term goals.
Our Theory of Action
Early Childhood Home Visiting (ECHV) Systems Change Infographics
In partnership with our Home Visiting System Advisory Groups, system change work is guided by a Theory of Action that describes how, what and why we are doing this work
Our Framework: Four Horizons
Watch the video of the Three Horizons Framework. Then take a look at the Four Horizons of Change graphic to see how we hope to apply the framework with the addition of Horizon Zero.
The Three Horizons Model
CCOHVS is using the framework from the Three Horizons model to engage in systems change. With the addition of a fourth horizon that compels us to learn about, acknowledge, and addressing the historic system of Oregon's Home Visiting (H0), we are able to understand the current system (H1), envision what we want the future system to look like (H3), and consider what the transition might include (H2).
Home Visiting Systems: The Four Horizons of Change
The “Four Horizons of Change” framework outlines the evolution of home visiting systems from fragmented, under‐resourced programs to a coordinated, equity‐driven model with stable funding, shared data, and a supported workforce.
Our Funding Partners
CCOHVS is supported by public and private investments from:
