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Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation in Home Visiting

By Elly Miles, Soumita Bose, and Grace Atukpawu-Tipton

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) helps promote healthy social-emotional growth in young children by bolstering skills and knowledge among the adults in their lives. Consultants work with early childhood professionals in a variety of settings, including home visiting, to build their capacity to respond to families’ mental health concerns and nurture parent-child relationships. Many consultants are mental health professionals with master’s degrees in related specialties and/or state-required credentials.

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Technology in Home Visiting: Strengthening Service Delivery and Professional Development Using Virtual Tools

By National Home Visiting Resource Center

Geography is an important factor when delivering services to children and families in their homes. For home visitors, working in rural areas can translate to long drive times and limited community resources. Meeting with families who move frequently brings its own set of challenges.

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Helping Home Visitors Address Sensitive Topics with Families: An Overview of Three Professional Development Initiatives

By National Home Visiting Resource Center

Home visitors often confront sensitive issues when meeting with families. Family stressors such as maternal depression, substance use, and intimate partner violence can restrict parents’ caregiving abilities and negatively impact children. They also pose professional challenges to home visitors.

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Creating Core Competency Frameworks for Successful Home Visitors

By Rebecca Peters and Heather Sandstorm

Home visitors come from various fields, but their daily work requires knowledge, skills, and attributes not linked to any particular discipline or degree. Core competency frameworks provide a shared language and set of expectations for the home visiting workforce by outlining the inherent “parts of the job.”

 

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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.

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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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.