- | Fact/Tip Sheet
This resource compiles self-care activities and resources shared by live participants in the Rapid-Response Virtual Home Visiting Self-Care webinar held on May 13, 2020.
- | Webinar
This resource provides 3 activities providers can engage in to manage their stress.
- | Fact/Tip Sheet
This resource provides tips to support family services staff wellness.
- | Fact/Tip Sheet
This resource provides self-care tips for family services professionals and home visitors.
- | Webinar
Head Start staff working in home-based programs build and sustain positive relationships with families. They also provide a consistent, supportive base to promote effective parent-child relationships. Though this work is rewarding, staff may experience unique circumstances that contribute to stress, which can impact their work and their wellness. Discover the importance of staff wellness and professional boundaries in home-based settings. Explore safety practices to enhance staff relationships with families. Learn about strategies for self-care and reducing stress. Find resources to support your work with families in home-based programs. (author summary)
- | Planning Tool
This Home Visiting Workforce Development Action Plan (Action Plan) advances the goal of and develops strategies for “recruiting, training, supporting, and retaining a well-qualified and committed home visiting workforce” (Goal 2 in the Strategic Plan). The Action Plan takes the workforce development objectives and strategies from the Strategic Plan and adds the detailed action steps needed to turn thought into action, and the evaluation metrics to determine whether a strategy is working. The Action Plan builds upon the significant effort already underway by First 5 California (F5CA) to inform policy recommendations that support the state’s efforts to build a cohesive home visiting workforce infrastructure. (author summary)
- | Fact/Tip Sheet
This fact sheet presents national estimates of program-level turnover and vacancy rates among Early Head Start (EHS) education and child development staff in 2022.
- | Report
The First 5 California (F5CA) Home Visiting Workforce Study collected data to help the state understand the landscape of California’s home visiting workforce, including characteristics of home visitors and supervisors, implementation supports for staff, and program needs for workforce recruitment, development, and retention. These data will be used to develop policy recommendations to support F5CA in this infrastructure development. This report presents findings from a survey of the California home visiting workforce, which received responses from more than 900 home visitors and supervisors across the state, representing 48 counties and 54 home visiting models. (author summary)
- | Article
The overarching goal of this study was to understand the context of home visitor secondary traumatic stress and burnout, and how this might affect intention to quit among home visitors, particularly focusing on potential risk factors and supportive strategies identified by the home visitors. All home visitors providing services in the state in which the research was conducted (N = 27) completed a structured interview and a quantitative survey at two time points, 6 months apart. Results indicated that more than two-thirds of the home visitors experienced either medium or high levels of secondary traumatic stress and burnout over the course of the study. Approximately one quarter of home visitors indicated thinking of leaving their present position. Qualitative data indicated that risk factors associated with burnout included those related to both direct and non-direct services. Risk factors associated with secondary traumatic stress included traumatic stress of families, inability to recognize one’s own experiences of secondary traumatic stress, and unhealthy work culture. In terms of protective factors, home visitors strongly emphasized the importance of having a supportive supervisor who they could trust and communicate with openly. (author abstract)
- | Report
This final report details the results of a MIECHV Innovation Grant awardeed to Washington and partner states in Region X (Alaska, Idaho and Oregon) to implement an innovative set of home visiting workforce supports and conduct an evaluation that would help improve these approaches.