Video Transcript

Hello. This is a walkthrough of the Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development Data Dashboard. This data dashboard shares information about the home visiting workforce supply and demand in the United States. This dashboard is sourced with data collected during 2025 and supplemented with other recent publicly available data. We hope you enjoy exploring this data dashboard to learn about the home visiting workforce and help make decisions related to the home visiting workforce.

This walkthrough is meant to show you how to actually use this data dashboard. It's a brief walkthrough and we encourage you to look at the technical appendix for more information about the background of the data, how it was processed, and what you should know about it as you use the data dashboard.

As you can see at the top right corner, the data dashboard year is 2025. Right now, that's the only year available, but it may be updated in future years.

This is the landing page, the first page that you'll see when you come to the data dashboard, and you'll notice a navigation bar at the top, which we'll discuss in a moment. But below that is the main attraction, which is the dashboard itself consisting of a map of the United States.

On the left, you can toggle between the state and the county, which I'll do right now.

The map is shaded based on the values of data that are being displayed at any given time and above the map, you'll see some key indicators that are shown. These are the pieces of data that are currently being displayed. So right now it's displaying the number of home visitors trained in any field, but I can switch to the number trained in nursing or the number of supervisors, and as you can see, the shading of the map changes to respond to what I have clicked.

Another important thing to note is that above the dashboard is a warning, uh, noting to be cautious that the workforce counts may be an underestimate in some states due to data availability. This is an ever-growing product and the accuracy of the counts will increase over time.

Regardless of which type of map you are on, you can hover your mouse over the map to see the different metrics for each state displayed when you hover over it. This is also true for the county, and if you'd like to get a closer look, clicking on a county will zoom into that state allowing you to explore the variations within that state.

Again, clicking the top buttons will change the metrics that are currently being displayed, and you can hit back to go back to the United States map as a whole.

Below the um, state and county level is a search bar, so if I go to county and I'd like to find Tarrant County, Texas, I can type that in and display the results. Here. I can do the same with states.

Below that search bar is a select group function, so I can look at households, which are statistics about households that may benefit from home visiting services in the United States, and I can look at the workforce, which are the home visiting workers themselves.

Under household characteristics, I've got six different categories and clicking the category displays the type of data that is shown there. When that changes, again, you can click on the different categories at the top to change the shading of the map, and again, I can click on workforce and now I can see eight different categories related to the workforce.

This is just a walkthrough of how to use the map, so we encourage you to explore the data and the technical appendix to understand what each of these different categories represents, but we've got things like demographics, education level, job density, et cetera.

Again, I can click through to change the shading of the map here and below this I also have a description of what it is that we're actually looking at. So while the technical appendix is very helpful, we do have a description here to help understand what it is that you're actually looking at, and a legend on the side to show how the shading of the map works.

Below the map, we've got some information about the data, including models that participated, but there's also a link to the technical appendix, PDF, which we strongly recommend reviewing if you're using the dashboard to make any decisions or to learn in depth about the home visiting workforce.

When we click at the top navigation bar to state profiles, we're gonna see a pre-developed state profile with information about a state in question, but you're able to click on this dashboard and change to any of the 50 states or the District of Columbia. When I click on Colorado, for example, the numbers are gonna change to be specific to the state of Colorado, and we're gonna have various pieces of information pre laid out, although they are responsive to your mouse, just like the map was.

Again, I will not go through in detail each of these different pieces of information, but I encourage you to explore them.

There's also a link to the home visiting locator to find a home visiting program near you, and a link to the MCee data dashboard. If you'd like to compare that.

Below are various charts, which again, you can examine in further depth by hovering over and seeing the values, and at the bottom are several tables, and you'll see a number of comparisons between the state that you have selected and the United States as a whole. Again, at the very bottom, you'll have the about the data text with a link to the technical appendix.

We also have generated highlights page, which has some key highlights from the 2025 pilot dashboard. These are important numbers related to the totality of the home visiting workforce in the United States, and again, we've got a link to the technical appendix. We encourage you to examine this page if you would like to just get some key statistics about the overall home visiting workforce.

Finally, we have the about page, which we'll be hosting this video that I'm recording right now, and also, which has a few different instructional sections that will help you explore the dashboard and learn about home visiting workforce in your state and local community. For example, when you click this bar, it will expand and show you how to compare home visiting workforce characteristics or how to explore the potential demand for home visitors and so on.

We encourage you to explore this about page in order to learn better how to use this dashboard to make decisions and compare data. Finally, at the bottom are some acknowledgements and funding data limitations and credits for who created the dashboard.

That is the end of this short tutorial, but we encourage you to explore the dashboard. Reach out if you have any questions, uh, and please enjoy using this data to learn about the home visiting workforce.