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National Strategy Social Share Kit

Help Us Share and Advance the Strategy!

In this share kit, you will find:

  • “About the National Strategy”—a brief overview
  • A 95-word blurb for your e-newsletter and/or list serv
  • Sample messages for social media and key hashtags
  • Social shareables—visuals to download and use with your posts
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Facilitating Community Advisory Groups to Strengthen Research

By Amerson, T., Spinosa, C., Heberlein, E., & West, A.

This brief highlights strategies for researchers, evaluators, and tribal, state, and territory home visiting programs planning to engage home visitors and families as research project advisors.

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Addressing Caregiver Mental Health

By Kowalski, A.J., Chute, D.E., Spinosa, C.Z., Sarkar, A., Heberlein, E., & West, A.

This brief describes strategies that home visiting programs can use to identify caregivers with mental health concerns and connect them to services.

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Supporting Families Affected by Intimate Partner Violence

By Chute, D.E., Kowalski, A.J., & West, A.

This brief describes strategies home visiting programs can use to better identify IPV among families and link affected families with community services.

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Addressing Concerns About Child Development

By Kowalski, A.J., Chute, D.E., Zhang, A.Y., & West, A.

This brief describes strategies that home visiting programs can use to improve access and linkages to early intervention services for families of children with developmental concerns.

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Improving Partnerships and Coordination Between Home Visiting and Child Welfare

By Chute, D.E., Kowalski, A.J., & West, A.

This brief describes strategies to enhance partnerships and coordination between home visiting and child welfare.

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Supporting Caregivers Affected by Substance Misuse

By Chute, D.E., Kowalski, A.J., Spinosa, C.Z., & West, A.

This brief describes strategies that home visiting programs can use to identify caregivers affected by misuse and to connect them with services.

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Professional Development Templates and User Guide

By Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development and Jackie Walorski Center for Evidence-based Case Management

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)
  • One template for home visitors who are more experienced (in their roles more than one year)
  • One template for supervisors who are new to their roles (less than two years)
  • One template for supervisors who are more experienced (in their roles more than two years)
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Workforce Well-being: A Case Study in Integrating Home Visitor Voices for Systems Change

By Catelynn Kenner, Brianna Dunn, and Alexis Brenner

Health-related workforces face dramatic employee wellness, retention, and morale challenges. Simultaneously, as initiatives expand nationally to create reimbursement pathways for Community Health Worker/Promotores (“CHW/P”) and home visiting services, professionals’ voices must be centered so that decision-making remains focused on what the workforce needs to thrive. Authors introduce a regional systems change collaboration in California focusing: A) workforce support that reduces isolation, burnout, and stress by fostering belonging and community through professional development and leadership advancement opportunities; B) service integration that reduces friction between programs and providers for seamless referrals and service delivery experiences; C) emerging practices for creating culturally-relevant resources; and D) advocacy for increasing system sustainability.

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Supervisor Practices in Reflective Supervision–Home Visiting (SuPRS–HV): Measure Manual, Version 1

By Mariel Sparr, Nancy Asdigian, Eleanor Fisk, Jessica Bruning, Jessica Fulford, and Allison West

This manual introduces the Supervisor Practices in Reflective Supervision—Home Visiting (SuPRS–HV), a measure of reflective supervision for the home visiting workforce. Measure development was part of a larger project, Supporting and Strengthening the Home Visiting (SAS-HV) Workforce, which explored how reflective supervision is defined, measured, supported, and associated with program outcomes in home visiting and related fields.