Current Family Home Visiting Evaluation Resources

This page provides information for family home visiting grantees on completing data collection forms, guidance on informed consent for sharing family home visiting participant data with MDH, and resources for users of the MDH-hosted IHVE forms in REDCap.

Data collection forms and guidance

Information for Home Visiting Evaluation (IHVE)

• IHVE Data Collection Manual (Updated September 2025) (PDF)
• Instructions for Family Home Visitors: Documenting Referral Information (PDF)

Strong Foundations quarterly data collection form

• Strong Foundations Quarterly Data Collection Form Submission Guidance 2024 (PDF)
• Strong Foundations Quarterly Data Reporting Flowchart (PDF)
• Strong Foundations Quarterly Report 2023 Webinar (Video)

Promising Practices quarterly data collection form

• Promising Practices Quarterly Data Collection Form Submission Guidance - Updated November 2023 (PDF)
• Promising Practices Progress Monitoring Report Prompts, 2023 (PDF)

Performance measures and IHVE data collection guidance for MIECHV grantees

• MIECHV Performance Measures and IHVE Data Collection Crosswalk - April 2023 (PDF)

Guidance for MECSH implementing agencies

• MECSH Reporting Guidance - Updated Jan. 2023 (PDF)

Informed consent and data practices

• FHV Informed Consent Guidance (Updated Oct. 2023) (PDF)
• Home Visitor Data Collection Notice (PDF)

Resources for REDCap users

• IHVE REDCap User Guide (PDF)
• Visit Date Calculator for Family Home Visits-Updated Dec. 2021 (Excel)
• Memo on REDCap Import Process and Reminder Reports - Oct. 2021 (PDF)