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Coaching is an interactive strategy to improve a home visitor’s practice. It involves a coach’s targeted observation of a skill, joint discussion, reflection, and plans for improvement.

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.

Screening is a way to identify children for possible concerns that should be referred for evaluation. Find out how ongoing assessments provide specific information about children's learning and development over time.

It is key for supervisors to support staff professional development opportunities. Find out how this support can help staff enhance their practices for ongoing work with families and children with disabilities.

Home visits are the main vehicle to deliver comprehensive services to young children and families. Explore how twice-monthly group socializations are also an important and required part of home-based services.

Find out how good planning and preparation lead to group socializations with meaning and purpose. These socializations can strengthen the parent-child relationship and support a child's learning and development.

Learn ways supervisors can make sure home visitors have adequate resources to conduct socializations.

Learn about ways home-based programs can use socializations to provide information about comprehensive services. Find out how home-based programs can help connect families to needed services and resources.