Two years after the ABCD program started in Vermont, the number of families accepting home visits had increased from 43 percent to 50 percent.  Evaluation data indicates that the Vermont ABCD project 1) improved the delivery of developmental services to Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women, infants, and children through age five, 2) changed Medicaid policies and practices, 3) improved providers’ delivery of child development services, and 4) improved parental knowledge about child development

This section contains resources for "Gauging Success" developed by Vermont.

• Touchpoints Implementation Survey
  Vermont ABCD I Project. This survey was used to collect data about provider and staff implementation of the Touchpoints guiding principles presented during the Touchpoints seminar.
  http://www.nashp.org/Files/TP_agency_survey.pdf

• Touchpoints Post-Training Assessment Form
  Vermont ABCD I Project. This post-training assessment of Touchpoints for University of Vermont faculty and other trainees was designed to determine the sustainability of the Touchpoints model.
  http://www.nashp.org/Files/TP-Post-training_Assessment.pdf

• Evaluation Plan: for Vermont's Healthy Babies, Kids, and Families Program
  Judith Shaw, Annette Rexroad. (Vermont ABCD I Project, May 24, 2002) This Evaluation Plan submitted as part of the Vermont Healthy Babies, Kids, and Families Expansion grant focuses primarily on documenting the process by which Medicaid services are administered. Although the four ultimate goals of this work are to improve the delivery of developmental services to young, vulnerable children, change Medicaid policies and practices, improve providers’ delivery of child developmental services, and to improve parental knowledge about child development, the evaluation plan for this three year project is aimed at better understanding the process of implementing a statewide initiative aimed at improving developmental services delivery.
  http://www.nashp.org/Files/HB_Exp_Grant_Eval_Plan.pdf