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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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Supporting caregiver mental health is essential to strong home visiting systems. This new 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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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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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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This brief describes strategies to enhance partnerships and coordination between home visiting and child welfare.
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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)
- 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)
In addition to the PD Plan Templates, there are also supporting resources including:
- sample newer home visitor PD Plan
- reference sheet for the PD Plan Templates
- HV SMART goals development tool
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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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Early Head Start home-based programs provide services to eligible families with children from birth to age 3 and to pregnant women and their families. Home visitors deliver services primarily in families’ homes. Early Head Start programs recruit and train home visitors to provide high-quality services tailored to the unique needs of infants, toddlers, and pregnant women. This brief presents information about how home-based Early Head Start programs hire qualified and competent home-visiting staff and support these staff in their ongoing professional development. (author summary)
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This brief uses data from the nationally representative Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES) to describe and compare key characteristics of Early Head Start services, staff, and participating families in 2018 and 2022, highlighting changes in program delivery, workforce attributes, and family experiences over time.