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The purpose of this contract is to understand how the evidence-based approaches of Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) operate in community contexts that serve American Indian and A... The purpose of this contract is to understand how the evidence-based approaches of Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) operate in community contexts that serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) families, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. The MIE CHV Program was created in 2010 and reauthorized in 2018 through the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. MIECHV has greatly increased the availability of home visiting services in the United States. According to the authorizing legislation, MIECHV is intended to improve outcomes for communities with high concentrations of adverse birth outcomes, poverty, crime, domestic violence, high school dropouts, substance abuse, unemployment, and child maltreatment. Federal grants are provided to states, territories, and tribal communities, and awardees contract with local implementing agencies to provide evidence-based home visiting services to families through supportive relationships with home visitors. Because there are there two different granting mechanisms by which MIECHV serves AIAN families, there are two study threads within the Multi-site Implementation Evaluation of MIECHV with AIAN Families (MUSE): (1) MUSE for Tribal MIECHV grantees (MUSE-THV) and (2) MUSE for State-Tribal Collaborations through the State MIECHV program (MUSE-STC).