Maternal & Child Health Indicators
Priority criteria provide one way to allocate home visiting services, but it’s important to consider other factors that impact potential beneficiaries’ daily lives. For families facing unexpected medical issues or unemployment, a home visitor can offer the lifeline they need to get back on their feet.
Our yearbooks have historically included data on maternal and child health indicators to offer insight into family well-being and the potential need for services to promote healthy outcomes. Previous yearbooks included information compiled from national data sources; here, we link directly to updated data sources for—
Not all families have the same access to community supports due to ongoing cycles of disinvestment and discriminatory practices in communities of color. Such structural forces create barriers to services that drive outcome disparities across groups, particularly by race and ethnicity. Visit the 2023 Home Visiting Yearbook to find disaggregated maternal and child health indicator data by race and ethnicity at the state level. We also included contextual information about structural factors that can challenge families, most of which still applies.
We hope these data help state leaders and service providers better understand the circumstances and experiences of local families and identify disparities in outcomes that warrant critical attention.