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This brief provides a snapshot of results from the Home Visiting Career Trajectories study that gathered information on staff qualifications, training, job experiences, and career pathways through online surveys with program managers and home visitors, as well as key informant interviews with program managers and supervisors and focus groups with home visitors in eight states. (author summary)
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The Home Visiting and Parent Education System Action Plan calls for better coordination across state funders and across programs to build and maintain a system that remediates racial and economic inequities through the equitable access points, quality, and distribution of services by: – collecting and using data across finders and program models to assure services are targeted where there is need and to measure and track outcomes; – assuring dedicated resources are spent in the most effective way, improving the quality of services through professional development and continual improvement based on family feedback and impact measures; – reducing administrative burden of community service providers who may currently need to report separately to different funders as they combine funding to serve families; and – supporting community level system-building to coordinate all home visiting and parenting education services as well as connect them with other early childhood services such as child care, preschool, health, and mental health to improve family access to services. (author summary)
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This tool aims to help Ministries and government agencies reflect on the ways in which they can support personnel delivering home visiting programs across sectors for pregnant mothers and caregivers with children under 3. It is also intended for countries with home visiting programs at either the sub-national or national levels. The tool reflects the overall environment in which the home visiting program operates as well as how it is designed and executed. Additionally, the tool addresses the support that home visitors receive since it impacts the way in which they carry out their tasks on a day to day basis and ultimately influences their relationship with families. (author summary)
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Illinois has opened a window of opportunity in which to design and implement improved statewide home visiting governance and funding structures to support the planful expansion and administration of home visiting services. (author summary)
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Objective: To explore home visitor expanded competencies aligned with family life education (FLE) competencies to inform the knowledge, skills, and attitudes addressed in preservice home visitor training. Background: Home visitor preparation in higher education should be informed by widely accepted competencies.
Method: We aligned FLE competencies with the Collaborative for Understanding the Pedagogy of Infant/Toddler Development (CUPID) competencies into a framework of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to promote practices in the field while preparing to earn the Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) credential. This framework was developed through an iterative process with stakeholders. Results: The full alignment includes 10 competencies.
Implications: This comprehensive alignment may inform the scholarship of teaching and learning in home visiting coursework and FLE content area coursework. This alignment may also promote developing new courses on home visiting, enhancing existing courses to address home visiting competencies, or modifying existing pedagogy. In the future, National Council on Family Relations CFLE-approved programs may want to incorporate the content of this alignment into their courses to promote the ability of preservice home visitors to apply for the CFLE credential. (author abstract)
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This report examines issues related to professional development for home visitors and home visiting supervisors. The findings presented are based on a national study of the home visiting workforce in Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program–funded agencies and interviews with experts in higher education and in the home visiting field. (author summary)
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This brief describes the results of a survey that collected Community Health Worker (CHW) responses over three weeks in June 2020 to understand the needs of CHWs and how employers can best support CHWs to protect themselves, provide services safely and adapt services to the changing environment. (author summary)
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This blog describes ways that public insurance financing can enhance access to home visiting services, especially for families with incomes below the federal poverty level. The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) worked with states such as Alabama and Montana to provide targeted technical assistance on how their Medicaid programs can expand coverage of home visiting services.
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This plan, Strengthening Home Visiting in Los Angeles County, was developed at a time of widespread commitment to supporting families and improving outcomes for young families. It is intended to serve as a blueprint for transformation—a guide for building coordination and strategic investment that our families and future generations deserve. It will serve as a core framework on which to develop and layer more detailed implementation plans for County departments and partners to execute wherein universal home visiting may play a crucial role in a comprehensive set of strategies designed to maximize outcomes for young children and their families. (author summary)
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Home visiting programs can alleviate workforce issues and promote home visitors’ job satisfaction and retention by reducing job stressors and providing protective supports.
This brief summarizes the existing research to answer four questions:
What factors contribute to home visitors’ mental health and well-being? How do home visitors’ mental health and well-being influence service quality? How can home visiting programs reduce stressors and support home visitors? What are the implications for research and practice? (author summary)