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State & Tribal Profiles

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2023 Yearbook

Tennessee

Models implemented in Tennessee included Early Head Start Home-Based Option, Healthy Families America, Nurse-Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers. Statewide, 25 local agencies operated at least one of these models.

31,380
home visits provided
2,609
families served
2,648
children served

Ethnicity

13% Hispanic or Latino

Caregiver Education

27% No high school diploma

Child Age

36% <1 year

40% 1-2 years

25% 3-5 years

Child Insurance Status

91% Public

6% Private

3% None

Primary Language

90% English

8% Spanish

3% Another language

Potential Beneficiaries

In Tennessee, there were 375,100 pregnant women and families with children under 6 years old not yet in kindergarten who could benefit from home visiting. These families included 473,800 children.

473,800 children could benefit from home visiting

Of the 473,800 children who could benefit —

375,100 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 Tennessee who met the following targeting criteria:

  • Child <1 19%
  • Single mother 26%
  • Parent with no high school diploma 7%
  • Pregnant woman or mother <21 4%
  • Low income 30%

Of the 375,100 families who could benefit —

53% of families met one or more priority criteria

23% 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. • Percentages may not add up 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 providing home-based services only. EHS race, ethnicity, and primary language data include children and pregnant caregivers. EHS does not report home visits or families served. The number of children served was included as a proxy for families served. • HFA reports primary language of caregivers. • PAT data for child insurance status and primary language are not included.