State & Indigenous Profiles

Pennsylvania

Models implemented in Pennsylvania included Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up, Child First, Early Head Start Home-Based Option, Family Check-Up, Healthy Families America, Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents as Teachers, and SafeCare Augmented. Statewide, 132 local agencies operated at least one of these models.

126,474
home visits provided
including 24,809 virtual visits
14,149
families served
16,030
children served

Ethnicity

20% Hispanic or Latino

Caregiver Education

17% No high school diploma

Child Age

29% <1 year

47% 1-2 years

23% 3-5 years

Child Insurance Status

87% Public

6% Private

6% None

Primary Language

87% English

8% Spanish

5% Another language

Potential Beneficiaries

In Pennsylvania, there were 634,000 pregnant women and families with children under 6 years old not yet in kindergarten who could benefit from home visiting. These families included 805,900 children.

805,900 children could benefit from home visiting

Of the 805,900 children who could benefit —

634,000 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 Pennsylvania who met the following priority criteria:

  • Child <1 19%
  • Single mother 24%
  • Parent with no high school diploma 5%
  • Pregnant woman or mother <21 2%
  • Low income 14%

Of the 634,000 families who could benefit —

46% of families met one or more priority criteria

14% 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: ABC, Child First, EHS, HFA, NFP, PAT, and SafeCare Augmented. • Missing and unknown data were not included in calculations. • Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding. • 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. • ABC data for child insurance status were not included. Data are reported for the ABC-Infant program. • 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. • SafeCare Augmented reported primary language, ethnicity, race, and families served only. The number of families served was included as a proxy for children served.