About The CCOHVS
About The CCOHVS
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Center for Coordinating Oregon Home Visiting Systems
Center for Coordinating Oregon Home Visiting Systems
Supporting the Vision for a Statewide Home Visiting System
Launched in January 2024 at the Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services (CCF) at Portland State University, under the direction of Dr. Beth Green, Oregon's Home Visiting System Coordination Center (OHVSCC) functions as a program-neutral backbone organization to coordinate the system of prenatal and early childhood home visiting services.
Raise Up Oregon 2.0:
Raise Up Oregon 2.0:
Our North Star
Our North Star
The work of the OHVSCC will move the state closer to the vision described in Raise Up Oregon 2.0 (RUO), the comprehensive early childhood system plan for creating “equitable, integrated, accessible, inclusive, anti-racist and family-centered” early learning services. Prenatal and early childhood home visiting services are a critical component of this system, as evidenced by the 18 specific RUO strategies that identify the key role for home visiting and the need for improved coordination of these critical supports.
Oregon’s commitment to early childhood health, development and family support is reflected in its many home visiting services and programs. These programs provide high-quality, comprehensive services to families with young children, starting prenatally through age 2 and beyond. While there have been considerable federal, state and local investments in home visiting services over the past 20 years, agencies and programs have struggled to work together as a coordinated and aligned system. The result is a fragmented, uncoordinated set of programs that families experience as complicated and confusing, which creates barriers for families that perpetuate inequities in access and quality across the state.
In response, the Oregon Early Learning Council prioritized home visiting system coordination as a key goal in 2022-23, and adopted a set of comprehensive recommendations for home visiting system transformation. In late 2023, key leaders moved forward with private/public, cross-sector investments in the OHVSCC to provide the necessary staffing and other resources.
The OHVSCC team’s inclusive, relationship-focused approach builds on existing structures and systems; systems leaders can respond to these recommendations by implementing and learning from innovative strategies that align with the Early Learning Council’s long-term goals:
OHVSCC's Framework: Four Horizons
OHVSCC's Framework: Four Horizons
The Three Horizons Model
The Three Horizons Model
The OHVSCC is using the framework from the Three Horizons model to engage in systems change. With the addition of a fourth horizon that compels us to learn about, acknowledge, and addressing the historic system of Oregon's Home Visiting (H0), we are able to understand the current system (H1), envision what we want the future system to look like (H3), and consider what the transition might include (H2).
Watch the video of the Three Horizons Framework. Then take a look at the graphic below to see how we hope to apply the framework with the addition of Horizon Zero.
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