This announcement solicits applications for the Home Visiting Research and Development (R&D) Platform. The purpose of this competition is to support a transdisciplinary research network for scientific collaboration and infrastructure building for innovative home visiting research. The research network will produce meaningful impacts that will significantly extend the evidence-base of home visiting through research that is informed by and reflects the principles of: 1) co-creation; 2) specificity and precision; 3) rapid-cycle and iterative methods; 4) targeting to identify who benefits most; 5) use of an “active ingredients” approach by identifying the components of interventions that lead to improved outcomes, and; 6) innovation beyond interventions and into systems (See Appendix for a glossary of selected terms).[1]
[1] Adapted from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (2016). From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A Science-Based Approach to Building a More Promising Future for Young Children and Families. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/.
