Home Visitor’s Guide to Helping Families Reduce the Spread of Illness
Use this resource to learn about healthy behaviors to reduce germs and how to share information with families during home visits.
Home Visiting
This collection explores the various aspects of home visiting, emphasizing roles, strategies, and resources for home visitors to support families. Topics include emotional literacy, fostering relationships, cognitive and emotional self-regulation, and understanding children's communication through behavior. Learn about creating home learning environments, promoting play-based learning, and transition support.
Understanding the Foundations of the Home Visitor Role
This webinar explores the foundations of home visiting and your role as a home visitor. Whether you are new to the role or a seasoned veteran, this video explores resources and strategies to support your work.
Responsive Feeding Tool for Home Visitors
Home visitors and others who work with families can use this resource to share information about responsive feeding, help families set up a positive eating environment, and look for responsive feeding behaviors.
Strategies to Promote Cognitive Self-regulation
Explore research, home visiting strategies, and resources that support home visitors as they partner with families to promote cognitive self-regulation in young children.
Promoting Oral Health During a Home Visit
Learn why promoting oral health during home visits is important and find tips Head Start staff can use to promote oral health during home visits.
Research on Home Visiting Programs
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.
Technology Considerations in Home Visiting
Technology is always growing and changing. Learn how home-based programs continue to establish policies for how to respond to the variety of technology.
Addressing Barriers that Limit Attendance
Many programs may face low family attendance at group socializations for a variety of reasons. Find out ways programs can meet this challenge and address low family attendance.
Resources for Socialization Activities
Learn ways supervisors can make sure home visitors have adequate resources to conduct socializations.
Adult Learning Principles
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.