Minding the Baby - MTB National Office

Minding the Baby - MTB National Office MTB-HV teams include a nurse practitioner and a licensed clinical social worker or similar mental health clinician.

The Minding the Baby® (MTB) National Office mission is to train and support professionals implementing relationship-based reflective parenting programs with the aim of strengthening families and limiting the effects of chronic stress. Minding the Baby® Home Visiting (MTB-HV) and related training provide an integrated model of care for first-time young parents that bridges primary care and mental h

ealth approaches to enhancing the parent-infant relationship. MTB-HV clinicians receive intensive training in the unique incorporation of the physical and mental health components of the intervention as well as ongoing joint supervision. MTB National Service Office staff at Yale University support replication efforts and implementation of the MTB-HV model in multiple locations while also disseminating the key principles of MTB’s reflective parenting approach through training, consultation, and broader education. For more information, please visit our website at www.mtb.yale.edu. To subscribe to our e-newsletters, sign up at: https://subscribe.yale.edu/browse?search=minding+the+baby

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The Minding the Baby® home visiting (MTB-HV) model was initially developed in 2002 as an intensive, preventive home visiting intervention for first-time young families in New Haven, Connecticut. The interdisciplinary clinical model employs a nurse and social worker home visiting team. Program goals include promoting positive health, mental health, life course, and attachment outcomes.

The first MTB Introductory Training Institute was offered in 2009, when a collaborative effort also began with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the United Kingdom. This involved a replication of the MTB-HV clinical and research program across 3 UK sites, in Glasgow, Sheffield, and York. This full-scale replication included an independently run randomized controlled trial (RCT).

After rigorous testing in the New Haven community and two federally funded randomized controlled trials (RCTs), MTB-HV was designated by Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) review as an “evidence-based early childhood home visiting service delivery model.” The criteria for this designation were established by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). MTB-HV is one of fewer than 20 home visiting models nationwide with this designation, making it eligible for implementation via state funds through the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program. Following this designation, a small-scale replication began in Miami, Florida in 2015 through the Young Parents Project at Florida State University.

The MTB National Office was established in 2016, with the aim of broadening the MTB-HV mission beyond direct service to include replication, training, and dissemination. MTB-HV implementation began in a single municipality in Denmark this same year, now being expanded across several more municipalities nationwide. In 2017, MTB-HV expanded in the U.S. with the start of two new MTB-HV teams serving families in Fairfield County, Connecticut through a collaborative replication with two agencies in Norwalk and Stamford. A new Connecticut team began serving families in New Haven County through Yale New Haven Hospital beginning in early 2020, thanks to a grant from the CT Office of Early Childhood.