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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.

Home-Based Parent Video Series

In this set of videos, learn about the home-based program option. Find out how home visits work, what parents can expect from a home visitor, and the role parent's play in the development of their child.

Home Visitor Supervisor's Handbook

In this handbook for supervisors of home visitors, find research on home-based programs and strategies for best practices, along with video examples, resources, and wisdom from supervisors across the country.

The Many Roles of the Home-Based Supervisor

Learn about the pivotal role supervisors play in a Head Start or Early Head Start program with a home-based option. Explore ways they enhance the quality of home visiting and group socialization services.

What Makes Home Visiting an Effective Option?

Discover how home visiting sets the stage for close, trusting relationships and why it is a critical element in any program designed to support families' and children's development.

Staffing the Home-Based Option

Explore requirements for staffing the home-based option. Learn about the necessary skills for staff as identified in the HSPPS and the Head Start Act to support staff recruitment and retention.

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