- | Brief
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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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): 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
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.
- | Guide
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.
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The Supervisor Practices in Reflective Supervision—Home Visiting (SuPRS–HV) is a measure of reflective supervision for the home visiting workforce. It is a short, self-report measure of specific practices used and content discussed in a single reflective supervision session. Through an iterative process of development with practitioners, researchers, and home visiting model representatives and large-scale testing, the SuPRS–HV demonstrates strong content validity. The SuPRS–HV is a publicly available measure and shows promise for use in both home visiting research and practice. (author summary)