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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.

Supporting Home Visitors

Find ways supervisors support home visitors through challenging situations. Learn how they help manage relationships and promote positive outcomes for children and families.

Reflective Supervision

Find out about reflective supervision, a mutual process in which a home visitor and supervisor learn together about the child, family, home visitor’s work, and the relationships involved.

Staff Wellness

Learn how home-based supervisors can promote wellness as they support others and care for their own well-being.

Home Visitor Safety

It is key for home visitors to feel safe and know how to maintain personal safety. Learn how to help create an emotionally safe environment for both home visitors and families.

Ethical Considerations for Home Visiting

The intimacy of working within someone’s home with no other professionals present may lead to confusing situations. It's key to have agency policies in place to handle ethical issues.

Professional Development for Home Visitors

Find ways to develop and strengthen home visitors’ knowledge and skills. Learn how supervisors can use formal learning experiences, coaching, supervision, case management, and observations to support home visitors.

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.

Initial and Ongoing Training

For successful home visitor recruitment and retention, find ways to provide orientation activities, informational supports, and training activities based on staff needs from the start.

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