Home Visitor Staff Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills
Review the Head Start Program Performance Standards around home visitors credential and coursework requirements.
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Human Resources
Head Start programs are only as good as their people. Explore resources on this topic to ensure that staff members and volunteers have the credentials and competencies needed to provide quality Head Start services. Learn ways to safeguard program staff’s health, wellness, and engagement, and to emphasize training and professional development. Find a range of instructional resources, including federal and regional training, technical assistance (TTA) staff, and online materials.
Training and Professional Development
Learn how to develop training and professional development programs that build staff capacity and support the continuous improvement of services to children and families.
Office of Head Start CAMP: Session 2
Watch the second episode in a six-week series presented by the Office of Head Start. Explore human resources management and program governance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nurturing Home Visitors
Hear experts discuss self-care in Early Head Start programs.
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.
Home-Based Staff Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills
Learn more about home-based staff qualifications and how programs ensure that each staff member, consultant, and contractor has the qualifications and competencies to provide high-quality services.
Hiring
Discover ways home-based supervisors may be involved in three important tasks related to hiring staff: developing a job description, recruiting staff, and being a key part of the interview process.
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.
Wage Comparability Survey: Analyzing Employee Compensation
Learn how to conduct a comparability survey that analyzes employee compensation across similar organizations that offer parallel services.
1302.91 Staff qualifications and competency requirements.
Review qualification and skill requirements for Head Start directors, fiscal officers, service area managers, family child care providers, home visitors, center-based teachers and assistant teachers, and coaches.
