- | 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.
- | Brief
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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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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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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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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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
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.