About MDRC
For the past several years, Faucetta has worked on evaluations of early childhood home visiting programs that support families across many domains of family and child functioning, with the goals of preventing child maltreatment, supporting positive parenting practices, improving maternal and child health outcomes, and promoting child development and school readiness. She currently works on the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a federally funded study that assesses the effects of early childhood home visiting programs as children age. She leads the MIHOPE long-term follow-up, planning for analyses of data collected when children in the study are in kindergarten and third grade. She also worked on the Family Level Assessment and State of Home Visiting project, a federally funded study that examined the outreach, recruitment, and enrollment processes of home visiting programs. Earlier in her tenure at MDRC, Faucetta worked on the Supporting Healthy Marriage project, a federally funded evaluation of a marriage education program that aimed to support married couples with low incomes. Before joining MDRC in 2011, Faucetta analyzed data at New York City’s Department of Homeless Services and interned at Children’s Rights. As a Fulbright scholar in Bulgaria, Faucetta studied the aging-out process for teenagers living in children’s institutions. She did her undergraduate work in political science at Boston College and has a master’s degree with a concentration in policy from the Columbia School of Social Work, with a focus on family, youth, and children’s services. She is currently pursuing a PhD in social welfare at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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MDRC Publications
ReportResults from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation
January, 2019Home visiting provides information, resources, and support to expectant low-income parents and low-income families with young children. This report provides the final results from a national evaluation of four major evidence-based models of home visiting.
BriefLaying the Groundwork for Long-Term Follow-Up in the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE)
October, 2017Home visiting provides information, resources, and support to expectant low-income parents and low-income families with young children. This brief summarizes evidence from existing studies on the impact of early childhood home visiting on children 5 and older for four national models of home visiting.
ReportThird Annual Report
April, 2016MIHOPE-Strong Start is the largest random assignment study to date examining the effects of home visiting services on birth and health outcomes and health care use. This report describes a partial sample of 1,200 families, explores the priorities and practices of the study programs, and discusses program recruitment.
ReportFinal Impacts from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
January, 2014Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) was a yearlong voluntary marriage education program to help strengthen couples’ relationships. SHM had small sustained positive effects on marital quality more than a year after the program ended but did not achieve its objectives of leading more couples to stay together or improving children’s well-being.
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Other Publications
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Projects
Charles Michalopoulos, Kristen Faucetta , Megan Millenky, Ximena Portilla, Marie-Andrée Somers, Livia MartinezA small body of research has found that families who participated in a home visiting program when their children were young may continue to benefit through their children’s adolescence. Therefore, a long-term follow-up study is being planned for families in the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation ( MIHOPE ). MIHOPE is examining how home visiting programs...
JoAnn Hsueh, Virginia Knox, Desiree Principe Alderson, Barbara S. Goldman, Erika Lundquist, Charles Michalopoulos, Electra Small, Kristen Faucetta , Meghan McCormick, Noemi Altman, Sharon Rowser, Amy Taub, Helen LeeThe Supporting Healthy Marriage project is the first large-scale, multisite, multiyear, rigorous test of marriage education programs for low-income married couples. Supported by the Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ), the project is motivated by research that indicates that married adults and...