Baby face qualitative Evaluation

Family engagement/retention 
My next set of questions is about keeping families actively participating.
6. Which strategies are most successful at keeping families actively participating in home 
visits?
7. What challenges do you have keeping families actively participating in home visits?

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Baby FACE 
Wilder Research, January 2015 
 
Qualitative Evaluation 
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Program implementation 
Next, I have some questions about how the program is implemented in your community. Please 
provide specific examples, if possible. 
8. How have families responded to having someone come into their home and talk with them 
about their child’s development, parenting and family well-being?
9. What works well about using the Parents as Teachers curriculum? 
10. What challenges do you have using the Parents as Teachers curriculum? 
11. How do you individualize home visits for the families you serve? [Probe if not mentioned: 
individual services for native language and culture, children with delays or special needs] 
12. How do you build relationships with community resources? 
13. How have you successfully connected families to community resources that help them meet 
their needs or reach their goals? 
14. Overall, what successes do you have conducting home visits?
15. Overall, what challenges do you have conducting home visits?
16. What successes do you have implementing Family Circle?
17. What challenges do you have implementing Family Circle?
18. What successes do you have conducting screenings? 
19. What challenges do you have conducting screenings? 
Program outcomes
 
 
My next set of questions is about the impact the program is having for families and the community.  
20. How is the program impacting children’s school readiness, including pre-literacy skills, 
language, cognitive, and social-emotional development? [Probe: how are parents 
supporting their child’s school readiness?] 
21. How is the program helping families connect with other families with young children? 
22. How is the program strengthening family functioning, resiliency, and goal setting? 
23. How do families who participate in the program feel about the school and how are their 
opinions of the school different than those families who do not participate in the program?
24. What other changes that we haven’t already talked about have you observed in parents, 
children and families who have participated in the program?

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