Children's Cause Orange County
PROGRAMS
Every Family Home Visiting Program
The Every Family Home Visiting Collaborative (EFHVC) is a countywide, multi-agency initiative that expands access to trauma-informed, culturally and linguistically responsive home visiting services for families with young children across Orange County. EFHVC’s support organizations include Children’s Cause Orange County (CCOC) in collaboration with the Vital Access Care Foundation (VACF) (program lead), the YMCA of Orange County (fiscal lead), and the Children and Families Coalition of Orange County (CFCOC) (consulting and technical assistance partner). Together, these organizations coordinate a network of direct service providers that implement the nationally recognized Healthy Families America (HFA) model. EFHVC’s direct service partners include: Access California Services, Beyond Blindness, OC Deaf, Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center, Boat People SOS (BPSOS), and Pacific Asian Counseling Services. These community-based organizations provide home visiting services in the preferred languages and cultural contexts of the families they serve—reaching communities that have been historically underserved, including Vietnamese, Cambodian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and immigrant and refugee families. Using the evidence-based HFA model, home visitors provide weekly visits beginning prenatally or shortly after birth. Services include parent coaching, early childhood development support, social-emotional guidance, health and resource navigation, and connection to essential services such as food, housing, and behavioral health care. All services are voluntary, free of charge, and relationship-centered, empowering caregivers to build safe, nurturing, and stable home environments. Through this collaborative approach, EFHVC strengthens Orange County’s early childhood ecosystem by improving coordination across providers, expanding workforce capacity, and improving access to service delivery. With policy and sustainability support led by CCOC, EFHVC is building a scalable model to ensure that all families—regardless of background or circumstance—have the support they need to give their children the best possible start in life.
HFA is one of only three home‑visiting models in the United States that the federal Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) review has found to produce positive results in all eight outcome domains (child development and school readiness, child health, family economic self-sufficiency, linkages and referrals, maternal health, positive parenting practices, reductions in child maltreatment, and reductions in juvenile delinquency, family violence, and crime) across more than 40 peer‑reviewed studies and 13 randomized controlled trials. Specific outcomes include:
35‑50 % lower incidence of substantiated maltreatment.
48% fewer infants are born at low birthweight.
26% fewer children receive special education services.
27% fewer families were homeless.
5x more likely to enroll and participate in school and training programs.
Significant declines in maternal depression compared with controls.
Independent cost‑benefit analyses estimate a $1.46 return for every $1 invested, and up to $3.16 for families already involved with child‑welfare systems, driven by avoided special‑education costs, reduced child protective services involvement, and increased future earnings.
CONTACT
Children's Cause Orange County
13217 Jamboree Road
#235
Tustin, California 92782
Michael Arnot
Phone: (949) 690-5274