Home-Based Option

Learn how home-based supervisors can promote wellness as they support others and care for their own well-being.

It is key for home visitors to feel safe and know how to maintain personal safety. Learn how to help create an emotionally safe environment for both home visitors and families.

The intimacy of working within someone’s home with no other professionals present may lead to confusing situations. It's key to have agency policies in place to handle ethical issues.

Find ways to develop and strengthen home visitors’ knowledge and skills. Learn how supervisors can use formal learning experiences, coaching, supervision, case management, and observations to support home visitors.

Find ways learning experiences can build home visitors’ knowledge and skills, supporting reflection, self-awareness, and empathy and regulating intense feelings arising from working with families.

For successful home visitor recruitment and retention, find ways to provide orientation activities, informational supports, and training activities based on staff needs from the start.

Find ways home visitors can build and sustain positive relationships with families. Being well-informed about the Family Partnership Process, family support services, and family engagement can support this work.

Home visits are the primary vehicle for delivering comprehensive Head Start services to young children and their families. 

Home visitors and families work together to create learning experiences children's development. Explore ways to emphasize daily routines and materials in the home to help plan a home-based curriculum.

Take a look at the research on home visiting programs. Find out how it shows home visiting is a complex endeavor with varying degrees of positive outcomes.