From briefs and toolkits to videos and tip sheets, every resource here was created by our project team to support the people doing this work, informed by the National Strategy for the Home Visiting Workforce. Search by keyword or filter by category to find what’s most useful for your role.
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- | Brief
This brief describes strategies to enhance partnerships and coordination between home visiting and child welfare.
- | Brief
This brief describes strategies that home visiting programs can use to identify caregivers affected by misuse and to connect them with services.
- | Planning Tool
The Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development has developed four Professional Development Plan (PD Plan) Templates to support home visitors and their supervisors in developing clear and feasible professional development plans:
- One template for home visitors who are new to their roles (less than one year): Newer Home Visitor Professional Development Plan (PDF) and Newer Home Visitor Professional Development Plan (Word)
- One template for home visitors who are more experienced (in their roles more than one year): Experienced Home Visitor Professional Development Plan (PDF) and Experienced Home Visitor Professional Development Plan (Word)
- One template for supervisors who are new to their roles (less than two years): Newer Supervisor Professional Development Plan (PDF) and Newer Supervisor Professional Development Plan (Word)
- One template for supervisors who are more experienced (in their roles more than two years): Experienced Supervisor Professional Development Plan (PDF) and Experienced Supervisor Professional Development Plan (Word)
In addition to the PD Plan Templates, there are also supporting resources including:
- | Other
This letter symbolizes a commitment to a growing national movement to strengthen the home visiting workforce and commit to advancing this shared vision:
A respected, supported, and sustainable workforce that enables families to thrive.
We recognize that achieving this vision requires coordinated action across three areas:
- Creating pathways into home visiting careers so more people can enter, grow, and lead in the field
- Strengthening the workforce through fair compensation, high-quality learning, and opportunities for advancement
- Supporting workforce well-being so home visitors can sustain their work and continue to serve families effectively
- | Other, Planning Tool
This accompanying Excel worksheet is designed to help supervisors and program leaders quantify the true cost of staff turnover within their home visiting programs. By guiding users through calculations related to recruitment, training, lost productivity, and missed visits, the tool translates workforce challenges into clear financial data that can strengthen the case for investing in staff well-being and retention.
- | Infographic
This infographic is one of three resources designed to provide home visitors and supervisors with practical strategies and tools to help make the case for workforce well-being by engaging program and organization leaders and inspiring action. It highlights why workforce well-being matters, the ripple effect it creates for families and children, and practical steps leaders can take to support program staff.
- | Fact/Tip Sheet
This tip sheet provides home visitors and supervisors with practical strategies and tools to help champion workforce well-being by partnering with leadership and inspiring action. It is further supported by the Making the Case for Home Visiting Workforce Well-being infographic and the Calculating the Financial Benefit from Reducing Employee Turnover in Home Visiting worksheet, which you can read more about, and together these resources provide actionable steps for advocating for and implementing workforce well-being efforts.
- | Infographic
This infographic was built by the home visiting workforce, for the home visiting workforce — and for anyone who wants to understand the vital role these professionals play.
- | Brief
Drawing on data from more than 24,000 home visitors who created accounts with a national professional development platform, the Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals (IAFSP), between 2021 and 2025. It presents a first-of-its-kind descriptive picture of the home visiting workforce across all 50 states and U.S. territories. It covers workforce demographics, educational attainment, and years of experience — offering foundational insights for program leaders, state and network leaders, researchers, and policymakers working to understand and strengthen the workforce.
- | Brief
This data insight brief draws on survey data from more than 500 supervisors working across 49 states and 2 U.S. territories, it presents the most comprehensive national picture of the home visiting supervisor workforce to date. It covers program context, demographic characteristics, educational backgrounds, training in reflective supervision, and years of experience — providing foundational information for program leaders, state and network leaders, model developers, and researchers who want to better understand and support this critical aspect of the workforce.
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