Support Workforce Well-Being

Home visitors engage in demanding, deeply relational work, and their well-being is essential to the families they serve. This page shares briefs, tip sheets, videos, and toolkits on fostering safe and supportive working conditions, reducing administrative burden, and spreading evidence-informed practices that support well-being — including reflective supervision and caseload management. Whether you’re a supervisor building a healthier team culture or a state leader shaping workforce policy, these resources are designed to help you put well-being into practice. Browse the resources below to learn more. 

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  • |  Fact/Tip Sheet

A Trauma Informed Workforce: An Introduction to Workforce Wellness

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  • |  Brief

Mental Health and Well-Being Among Home Visitors: Stressors, Supports, and Service Implications

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  • |  Brief

Pause-Reset-Nourish (PRN) to Promote Wellbeing

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National Strategy Social Share Kit

By Health Resources and Services Administration and Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development and Jackie Walorski Center for Evidence-Based Case Management

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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  • | Brief

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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  • | Guide, Other, Planning Tool

Home Visitor Safety Suite

By Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development and the Jackie Walorski Center for Evidence-based Case Management

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.

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  • | Brief, Guide, Other, Planning Tool

Home Visiting Workforce Well-being Suite

By Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development and the Jackie Walorski Center for Evidence-based Case Management

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.