Family Check-Up
Family Check-Up (FCU) promotes social and emotional adjustment in children by reducing coercive and negative parenting, increasing positive parenting, and reducing maternal depression. Targeted outcomes in early childhood include reductions in behavioral problems at home and school, reductions in emotional distress, and increases in self-regulation and school readiness.
What is the model’s approach to providing home visiting services?
The model is adaptive and tailored to each family. The frequency of home visits varies by families’ needs. Families typically receive a total of six to nine home visits.
FCU serves all families with young children and does not recommend or require any specific family characteristics for enrollment.
Who is implementing the model?
Home Visitors
FCU trained 74 home visitors to implement the model in 2023. The model recommends a master’s degree for home visitors. Home visitors may also have a bachelor’s degree with sufficient experience and supervisory support. There are no requirements for home visitor caseload limits.
Supervisors
FCU was implemented by 10 supervisors in 2023. The model strongly recommends a master’s degree for supervisors. Supervisors may also have a bachelor’s degree with extensive relevant experience.
Where is the model implemented?
FCU operated in 39 local agencies across 17 states in 2023. FCU also operated outside the United States and its territories in Canada, Holland, and Sweden in 2023.
Families Served Through Evidence-Based Home Visiting in 2023
Race
3% American Indian Alaska Native
12% Asian
9% Black
11% Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander
57% White
5% Multiple
4% Another race
Ethnicity
14% Hispanic or Latino
86% Not Hispanic or Latino
Household income
59% Low-income status
41% Not low-income status