Home Visiting Research and Development Platform

in family and community outcomes. The recipient will accomplish this through the following six objectives: 1) Develop and maintain a practice-based research network of home visiting and early childhood researchers, home visiting programs, home visiting model developers, MIECHV recipients, and other relevant stakeholders; 2) Advance the use of innovative research methods in home visiting, including methods that utilize rapid-cycle and iterative approaches that support the translation of research findings into actionable and meaningful policy and practice improvements; 3) Promote the use of data sharing and interoperability through data collaboratives and other partnerships to better answer questions of broad interest to the field; 4) Respond to emerging priorities in the field by conducting timely and relevant research, and translate these research findings into practice; 5) Mentor the next generation of early childhood researchers with explicit focus on increasing the diversity of researchers in the field, and; 6) Expand the field of precision home visiting1 through intellectual leadership, dissemination, and technical assistance, including by engaging a range of relevant stakeholders in formal and informal capacities.