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Home Visiting

Home visitor greeting a mother with her baby, while entering a house.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.

Developing and Maintaining Relationships with Parents

Building relationships with families is an ongoing process. Learn how a family’s first interactions with a home visitor impact whether they feel welcomed and safe, and whether they feel your program can help them.

Reflective Practice

There are few right answers in home visiting, and relationships can ebb and flow. Explore ways reflection helps home visitors understand what they see, plan with families, and practice self-care.

Relationship Repairs

We all make mistakes and sometimes, simply performing the job of home visitor may be stressful. Explore ways to work with families through challenging times.

Health and Developmental Services

Learn why it is key that home visitors work with each family to help track and make sure that children have annual health, vision, hearing, behavioral, and developmental screening.

Emergent Literacy

Learn more about emergent literacy. Discover the many ways young children can engage with books, from holding and turning the pages, to pointing to and talking about the pictures and asking questions.

Effective Strengths-Based Parent Education

Supporting parent strengths and capacities is a fundamental element of the home-based option. A primary goal is to strengthen the parent–child relationship.

Structured, Child-Focused Home Visiting

Learning opportunities that are planned and structured to meet the interests and development level of the child are more likely to have a more positive impact on development.

Challenges

Many home visitors observe serious challenges that affect relationships with families and require immediate action. Find out ways programs can put policies in place to meet these kinds of situations.

Ongoing Assessment and Curriculum Planning

Ongoing assessments provide specific information about each child’s learning and development. This helps the home visitor and family members to create focused, individualized learning opportunities and track each child’s progress.

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