February 12 - 14, 2025
The National Home Visiting Summit is a multi-day in-person conference in Washington, D.C., that brings together early childhood leaders to advance the home visiting field. Registration and call for proposal is now open! Join us Feb. 12-14, 2025.
The National Home Visiting Summit is a conference that integrates policy, practice, and research to influence systems change, with the goal of advancing equitable and high-quality home visiting services, structures, and systems. The Summit provides a platform to advance home visiting as a critical component of the early childhood system.
View the 2025 Agenda At-a-Glance to help plan your trip to Washington, D.C. for this year’s conference accordingly.
The National Home Visiting Summit will be held in person from February 12 – 14, 2025.
Opening the Doors to Systems Change
The Summit is designed for state and federal administrative and legislative systems leaders, federal, state, and local policy advocates, researchers, program and practice leaders, direct service providers, parents/caregivers and philanthropic partners interested in information that supports and strengthens their role as decision-makers and change agents in the home visiting field. Accordingly, each session is an important opportunity for speakers to engage leaders on the most pressing and innovative issues concerning the field today. The perspectives and practices of intersectional professionals and families are especially encouraged.
Location
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H Street NW Washington, DC, USA, 20001 202.582.1234
Interested in attending virtually? The three plenary sessions at the conference will be streamed live for those unable to attend in-person. The plenary sessions are the only live content offered virtually at the 2025 Summit. Learn more.
Call for Proposal
The Call for Proposal for the 2025 Summit is open! The Summit seeks workshop proposals addressing systems change within the home visiting field and early childhood system of care. Systems change can and should be influenced at multiple levels, including family, workforce, community, state, and federal and should include voices with lived experience and expertise within the early childhood ecosystem.
The in-person conference will include the following engagements:
The Summit agenda at-a-glance is available here.
Session Registration
Sessions will be open for registration in January.
2025 Plenaries
Stay tuned to learn more about the 2025 Plenary speakers!
Start Early is an Accredited Provider by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). For the first time, the National Home Visiting Summit will offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for workshops and plenary sessions. IACET CEUs will be issued via standards set up by Start Early as an accredited organization via the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). As the official standard for continuing education and training, IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are recognized by a wide range of organizations, including professional associations, regulatory boards, corporations, and universities. Start Early is unable to seek state-by-state early childhood workforce registry approval for the Summit. However, as a current IACET-approved provider, all content sessions at the Summit include CEU provision options for learners (learners must complete and pass associated evaluations to obtain CEUs). We encourage individuals to directly contact their state registry to find out if CEUs may be accepted and count toward clock hour requirements.
Credit for each plenary session attended: 0.1 CEU
Credit for each workshop session attended: 0.1 CEU
To receive credit, you must participate in the entirety of the session and complete the end-of-session evaluation. Start Early will issue CEUs throughout the month of February in the form of certificates via email. Please be patient as we process your certificate.
Conference Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB):
Justice demands that we take the necessary steps to reimagine and create systems to ensure that children, families, providers and communities have fair conditions, support, and agency to live free of oppression, with humanity and joy. The home visiting field must continuously grapple with the field’s role in addressing the deep economic, social, and racial disparities that exist in the United States and globally. Systems change happens at every level of home visiting with families and home visitors, supervisors, funders, policy professionals, researchers and community partners all pushing at different leverage points. As drivers of quality and positive change in home visiting across many roles, with varied and often intersectional backgrounds and wisdom, the Summit invites you, through work in policy, practice, research to partner to change the systems on which these inequities were built. Learn more about our community agreement.
Resources:
Conference Commitment to Accessibility – Creating an Inclusive Community:
Start Early is committed to providing all participants with a safe and welcoming environment. As you register for the conference, you must agree to the Summit’s Community Agreement. Aligned with the Conference Commitment, the Community Agreement outlining the code of conduct for all Summit participants.
Please review the list below for further details:
Requests can be made when you register or by emailing Events@StartEarly.org.
The National Home Visiting Summit provides an exclusive opportunity for a sponsor—whether corporate or individual—to demonstrate its commitment to children and families to hundreds of early childhood leaders from across the country.
Please email Events@StartEarly.org to learn more about benefits and sponsorship opportunities for the 2025 National Home Visiting Summit.
Registration closes: Friday, January 10, 2025 If the conference reaches capacity in advance of the deadline a waiting list will be enabled.
| Registration Type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Attendee Early Bird Rate (through October 31, 2024) | $599 |
| Attendee Rate (November 1, 2024 – January 10, 2025) | $649 |
| Speaker/Poster Presenter | $449 |
| Livestream* | $99 |
*Livestream: The three plenary sessions at the conference will be streamed live for those unable to attend in-person. The plenary sessions are the only live content offered virtually at the 2025 Summit. Virtual poster content and exhibitor booths will also be made available to livestream registrants. View the agenda at-a-glance for plenary session dates and times.
Summit registration package includes the following engagements:
Meals
The following meals will be provided for registrants: beverage and light refreshments at the poster session on Wednesday, February 12; continental breakfast and buffet lunch on Thursday, February 13; and continental breakfast and box lunch on Friday, February 14. Dietary preferences can be indicated in registration.
Home Visiting Parent/Caregiver Registration: To qualify for free livestream registration as a home visiting parent/caregiver, you must currently receive services as a parent/caregiver with a home visiting program. Email the event team at Events@StartEarly.org to receive the code for free livestream registration.
Limited funds for parent/caregiver in-person registration, travel, and honorarium are available. Should you be interested in attending in-person, please email Events@StartEarly.org.
Student Discount: A 10% discount is available for registered attendees in a degree-earning program. Please email us at Events@StartEarly.org if this applies to you, and the discount will be provided. This discount is applicable for in-person registration only.
Payment
The Summit accepts credit cards, purchase orders, ACH, and checks. We encourage attendees to complete payment via credit card when possible.
If paying by check, ACH, or purchase order, please adhere to the following: When registering, select the ‘Bill Me Later’ option to process checks, ACH, or purchase orders. Attendees paying by check or purchase order have 30 days to complete payment for the Summit or provide us with an explanation for extending the due date (i.e., waiting for the new fiscal year). Written payment explanations should be made within 30 days of registration to Events@StartEarly.org.
Please note:
Checks should be mailed to:
Start Early
Attn: National Home Visiting Summit
PO BOX 775834
Chicago, IL 60677-5834
To reconcile payment, checks must be mailed to Start Early with the invoice received in your confirmation email, including the attendee’s name and confirmation number. Failure to include documentation may delay reconciling your payment or lead to cancellation.
If someone else will be submitting payment on behalf of an attendee (I.e. a finance department or sponsoring organization) the attendee is responsible for ensuring that their invoice is included with this payment. If you cannot ensure documentation will be included in your payment email the conference planning team. Failure to include documentation may delay reconciling your payment or lead to cancellation.
We are eager to support you during the payment process. Please email us your inquiries at Events@StartEarly.org.
Group Discount Registration
A registration discount is available for organizations planning to register a group of 10 or more attendees. For every 10 registrants, the 10th registration is free. Please get in touch with us at Events@StartEarly.org before registering your group to obtain the discount.
Cancellation/Substitution Policy
All registration cancellations must be sent via email to Events@StartEarly.org. There will be a $100 processing fee to cancel in-person registration. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations made after January 26, 2025. Credits will not be issued for future events. No refunds shall be made for cancellations due to inclement weather. Refunds in case of emergency: If an attendee cannot attend the conference due to serious illness or death, a full refund will be issued.
Substitution Policy
You may transfer your registration to another person (without cost) if you cannot attend the Summit. Email the event team at Events@StartEarly.org with the names and email addresses of the original and substitute registrants.
Conference Location
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H Street NW Washington, DC, USA, 20001 202.582.1234
The group rate at the Grand Hyatt starts at $259 for February 11-14. Group Discount Code: G-OUNZ
To reserve using the per-diem rate, you can book here at the rate of $188 per night plus tax. Group Discount Code: G-OUN1
The standard check-in at the Hyatt is 4 p.m. Eastern, and checkout is 11 a.m. Eastern. The deadline to reserve a room at the group rate is January 22, 2025. We encourage you to book in advance of the deadline.
If making your reservation by phone, reference the group code and conference name to access the group discount. Reservations: 202.582.1234
Ground Travel
Ground transportation will not be provided. The D.C. Metro, taxi system and hotel shuttles are recommended.
The nearest Metro station to the Hyatt is the Metro Center Station and is connected to the Grand Hyatt Washington D.C. You can access the blue, red, orange, and silver metro lines there. The address is 607 13th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005. Learn more about the Metro.
Sustainable Travel Tips
Before we gather, we encourage you to review and practice sustainable travel practices for the duration of your stay. We hope to leave the nation’s capital and the surrounding community better than we found it!
Resources and recommended readings:
Content Areas of Interest for the 2025 Summit (include but are not limited to):
We recommend using FedEx, which is conveniently located at the Grand Hyatt.
The Summit does not provide on-site child care or designated activities for children.
These services will not be provided for the 2025 Summit. The conference will be delivered in English.
The Grand Hyatt Washington, D.C. is the only hotel with a Summit room block.
There is no formal dress code for the conference. We do our very best to control meeting room temperatures, we recommend you bring an additional layer for your comfort.
Registrants can modify their agenda on the mobile app or desktop version. If you would like to switch sessions during the conference, we ask you to take your seat just before the start of the session to accommodate registered attendees.
We encourage you to attend as much as you can. However, your attendance at sessions or events is at your discretion.
The Summit is committed to providing an environmentally friendly conference. Session materials will not be printed. Please view our mobile app for materials and your individualized agenda.
All food will be labeled, attendees with specific needs should ask event or banquet staff for specific meal needs.
Yes, a nursing and medical necessities room will be available onsite. Visit the registration desk for a key to the room.
If you are staying at the meeting location or another hotel, you may give your belongings to the concierge at the Grand Hyatt Washington D.C.
Please go to the front desk of the Grand Hyatt to report or find lost items. Assistance can also be provided by going to conference services and speaking with a staff member.
The conference website will be available for 5 months after the conference. Ending July 14, 2025.
Yes, please view the CEU section on the conference website to learn more.
The 2026 conference dates will be released before the upcoming conference. A Save the Date will be emailed to our community. To ensure you receive an email, please sign up below.
The Call for Proposal for the 2026 Summit will open Summer of 2025.
The National Home Visiting Summit’s Communities of Practice are focused on developing peer learning communities dedicated to the most pressing issues in the home visiting field.
The 2025 National Home Visiting Summit and Communities of Practice were made possible by:
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