MIECHV Overview

• Federal Requirements

  • Measures in 6 benchmark areas
  • Measures for several constructs in each benchmark area
  • Must show improvement in at least 4 benchmark areas in at least 50% of the constructs in those areas
  • The document titled Federal Requirements for Meeting Legislatively-Mandated Benchmarks - Appendix A, gives a little more detail about the federal requirements

• States were required to choose their own specific measure and assessment tool for each federally required construct

• Oregon's team for choosing the measures had a representative from each of the 3 MIECHV funded home visiting models

  • Early Head Start
  • Healthy Families Oregon
  • Nurse-Family Partnership

• Principles Oregon used to select measures

  • Use valid and reliable tools
  • Minimize program burden
  • Continue use of existing tools where possible
  • Minimize use of multiple tools for the same measure
  • Use outcome measures where possible
  • The document titled Oregon's MIECHV Benchmark Plan Narrative - Appendix A, provides this information and more about the plan Oregon submitted to HRSA

• There are two documents in Appendix A that provide more information about Oregon's MIECHV measures

  • Oregon MIECHV Measures in Brief gives a brief description of each measure
  • Oregon MIECHV Measures gives a complete description of each measure

 

Appendix A: MIECHV Benchmarks

1. Federal Requirements for Meeting Legislatively-Mandated Benchmarks (pdf)
2. Oregon MIECHV Benchmark Plan Narrative (pdf)
3. Oregon MIECHV Measures in Brief (pdf)
4. Oregon MIECHV Measures (pdf)