- | Guide, Planning Tool
A guided reflection tool that helps home visitors assess their confidence, preparedness, and experiences related to physical, psychological, professional, and organizational safety. The self-assessment encourages meaningful conversations with supervisors and helps identify areas where additional support, training, or resources may be needed.
- | Guide, Other, Planning Tool
The Home Visitor Safety Suite is designed to support home visiting programs in strengthening safety practices before, during, and after home visits. The suite contains a Home Visitor Safety Self-Assessment, Organizational Home Visitor Safety Checklist, and Decision Trees.
- | Brief, Guide, Other, Planning Tool
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.
- | Other
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
- | Brief
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.
- | Brief
This brief describes strategies home visiting programs can use to better identify IPV among families and link affected families with community services.
- | Brief
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.
- | 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)
- 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