For the past decade, our team of independent researchers from the departments of Child Development and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University has been contracted by the Massachusetts Children’s Trust Fund (MCTF) to evaluate the Healthy Family Massachusetts newborn home visiting program (HFM). We completed our first phase of evaluation - the Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation (MHFE-1) -  in 2005, and currently are conducting a second-cohort evaluation (MHFE-2).