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 |  2026

Home Visiting Workforce Well-being Suite

Authors: Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development and the Jackie Walorski Center for Evidence-based Case Management

The Home Visiting Workforce Well-being Suite includes discussion guides and videos that advance the National Strategy for the Home Visiting Workforce’s vision for a sustainable, skilled, and supported workforce by providing practical tools that can be integrated into reflective supervision, staff meetings, leadership discussions, quality improvement activities, and professional development.

Home Visiting Workforce Well-being in Practice: A Learning Series for the Field (Video Recordings)

This asynchronous video series is designed to support learning on key home visiting workforce well-being topics. Each short, on-demand video provides foundational knowledge, builds a shared understanding of core concepts, and offers practical strategies for strengthening workforce well-being in everyday practice.

The companion Home Visiting Workforce Well-Being Discussion Guides (linked below) help individuals, teams, and organizations reinforce learning, support reflection, and facilitate meaningful conversations to move from learning to reflection and application.

5 videos available:

  1. Understanding Home Visiting Workforce Well-Being provides an overview of workforce well-being, introducing key concepts, evidence-informed frameworks, and practical strategies that support a healthy, engaged, and sustainable home visiting workforce.
  2. Strengthening Workforce Culture and Reflective Practice in Home Visiting introduces reflective practice as a foundational skill for home visiting and explores how reflective leadership and organizational culture contribute to staff well-being, learning, and effective practice.
  3. Supporting Home Visitor Safety in the Organization and Out in the Field explores the multiple dimensions of home visitor safety and highlights practical strategies for creating a shared culture of physical, psychological, professional, and organizational safety.
  4. Fostering Resilience in Stressful Work Environments explains the common sources and impacts of workforce stress while introducing individual and organizational strategies that build resilience and support long-term well-being.
  5. Workforce Voice as a Strategy for Well-Being explores how workforce voice strengthens well-being by encouraging communication, shared decision-making, and collaboration to improve workplace culture and organizational effectiveness.

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Home Visiting Workforce Well-Being Discussion Guide and Facilitator Companion

The discussion guide series (linked below) is designed to help home visiting teams create opportunities for meaningful reflection, dialogue, and continuous improvement around workforce well-being. It provides practical discussion prompts and activities that encourage shared learning, support team conversations, and help identify strategies to strengthen staff well-being and organizational capacity.

The six guides are designed to be used individually or together, with the greatest impact achieved when they are integrated into ongoing workforce well-being efforts such as reflective supervision, team meetings, communities of practice, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

The facilitator companion is designed to support implementation of the Home Visiting Workforce Well-Being Discussion Guide Series. It provides practical guidance for planning and leading discussions, creating psychologically safe learning environments, encouraging meaningful participation, and helping teams translate reflection into action.

6 discussion guides:

  1. Understanding Home Visiting Workforce Well-Being introduces the core concepts of workforce well-being and explains why supporting the well-being of home visiting professionals is essential to building a healthy, sustainable workforce.
  2. Strengthening Workforce Culture and Reflective Practice in Home Visiting explores how organizational culture and reflective practice nurture learning, collaboration, resilience, and a supportive work environment.
  3. Cultivating Reflective Supervision for Workforce Well-Being and Resilience examines how reflective supervision strengthens professional growth, resilience, emotional well-being, and supportive relationships across the organization.
  4. Supporting Home Visitor Safety in the Organization and Out in the Field highlights strategies for creating a comprehensive culture of safety that promotes the physical, psychological, professional, and organizational well-being of home visiting staff.
  5. Fostering Resilience in Stressful Work Environments provides practical strategies for strengthening individual and organizational resilience to help staff manage stress, prevent burnout, and sustain well-being over time.
  6. Workforce Voice as a Strategy for Well-Being demonstrates how elevating staff voice and fostering shared decision-making can strengthen engagement, trust, organizational learning, and continuous improvement.

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Continuous Quality Improvement: A guide to using CQI methods and PDSA cycles to strengthen workforce well-being

This brief is designed to support home visiting teams in strengthening workforce well-being through Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). It introduces the Model for Improvement and Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycles as practical approaches for testing and refining improvement strategies, highlights methods for collecting small but meaningful data, and includes a PDSA template and completed example to support implementation.

It was designed to complement the Home Visiting Workforce Well-Being Discussion Guide series (linked above).