State & Indigenous Profiles

Connecticut

Models implemented in Connecticut included Child First, Early Head Start Home-Based Option, Family Check-Up, Family Connects, Healthy Families America, Nurse-Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers. Statewide, 52 local agencies operated at least one of these models.

63,635
home visits provided
including 13,471 virtual visits
3,931
families served
4,202
children served

Ethnicity

52% Hispanic or Latino

Caregiver Education

19% No high school diploma

Child Age

31% <1 year

39% 1-2 years

30% 3-5 years

Child Insurance Status

86% Public

14% Private

<1% None

Primary Language

74% English

20% Spanish

6% Another language

Potential Beneficiaries

In Connecticut, there were 168,400 pregnant women and families with children under 6 years old not yet in kindergarten who could benefit from home visiting. These families included 210,900 children.

210,900 children could benefit from home visiting

Of the 210,900 children who could benefit —

168,400 families could benefit from home visiting

Many home visiting services are geared toward particular subpopulations. The NHVRC estimated the percentage of families who could benefit in Connecticut who met the following priority criteria:

  • Child <1 19%
  • Single mother 22%
  • Parent with no high school diploma 4%
  • Pregnant woman or mother <21 1%
  • Low income 12%

Of the 168,400 families who could benefit —

44% of families met one or more priority criteria

12% of families met two or more priority criteria

NHVRC State Profiles present data provided by evidence-based models, which include both MIECHV and non-MIECHV data. This State Profile includes participant data from the following evidence-based models: Child First, EHS, Family Connects, HFA, NFP, and PAT. • Missing and unknown data were not included in calculations. • Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding. • To protect confidentiality, race and ethnicity categories with 10 or fewer participants were replaced with *. • Public insurance includes Medicaid, CHIP, and TRICARE. • Low income is defined as family income below the federal poverty threshold. • Single mothers include single, never married mothers or pregnant women. • EHS data may be underreported. Data include EHS programs that provided home-based services only. EHS did not report home visits. Data for child insurance status were not included. • HFA data for private insurance include other forms of health insurance. • PAT data for child insurance status and primary language were not included.