Home Visiting

Research shows the most important role of a home visitor is structuring child-focused home visits. Learn how to promote parents’ ability to support the child’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development.

Discover how the goals for learning and development that the home visitor and the parents create for the child build a foundation for success in school and in life. 

Learn how the unique work of home visitors is about ways to “engage in a mutually respectful goal-oriented partnership with families to promote parent–child relationships and family well-being.”

Review the requirements of Early Head Start programs around   children eligible for intervention services by their state or local agency providing services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 

Technology is extremely widespread. Learn about the ways home-based programs have been establishing policies for decades around how to respond to the growing types of technology.

The intimacy of working with families in their homes, with no other professionals present, can sometimes lead to confusing situations. Find ways to handle issues as they arise, by having program policies in place.

Programs can collect data on a variety of topics to track quality and efficacy. Learn how program goals determine what tools to use to track child development and parent–child interaction, for example.

Explore research on home visiting programs and the Early Head Start home-based program option. Find out how positive outcomes appear in different degrees, in different program models, and for different populations. 

Explore free mobile tools for home visitors from the Office of Head Start, including ELOF@HOME and Text4HomeVisitors. Discover effective practices and get text messages focusing on home-based topics and resources.

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