This hour will be dedicated to the importance of mindful self-compassion and how it can benefit our personal and professional lives. During this webinar, we will explore mindful self-compassion practices for daily life and learn techniques that can be used and shared with peers and/or families during home visits.
Join us as we explore some of the potential challenges of maintaining a caseload while in a supervisory role. Come and learn strategies to prevent burnout while supporting staff and your own professional development.
In part two of the webinar series, we will continue to equip frontline staff with accurate information about vaccinations for children. Join us for a conversation with Dr. Torri Metz, Obstetrician, and Dr. Mishelle Nace, Pediatrician, as they give reliable information and answer your submitted questions about vaccinations for pregnant women and children.
This webinar will also provide resources for information on vaccinations and speaking to families that you serve. Please submit all questions by December 9th to give Dr. Brown and Dr. Nace time to work them into their presentation. Submit questions here: https://forms.gle/hhxQPBnCyS41hzRX8
In this webinar, we will discuss the how we can utilize the Protective Factor Framework to support our working relationships with providers. We will discuss ways supervisors can nurture working relationships and strategies for strengthening staff relational health.
Join us as we come together to learn about Joy in Work and opportunities to embed this using quality improvement strategies. During our webinar, we will explore an example from the home visiting field of how to embed Joy in Work into everyday practices.
In this webinar participants will explore the Virtual Home Visiting Supervisor’s toolkit. We will discuss how to support the transfer of learning between supervisors and providers. We will also learn and practice staff appreciation and support strategies.
Please join us for the second part of our series on Trauma. This webinar will focus on the core sensitivities and intervention goals; while providing techniques for working with adults impacted by trauma.
Please join us for our next webinar focused on trauma and how trauma manifests in individuals. This webinar will discuss psychological trauma, its impact on relationships, and the home visitor role when working with individuals impacted by trauma.
Please join us for a conversation with the home visiting models as they address some of the most pressing issues identified by the field. Family engagement and retention, vaccine hesitancy, and accessing resources for basic needs will all be discussed as the models offer guidance and support through this process.
School is back in session and the excitement of a new school year can also bring anxiety for our little ones. Some families are managing in-person learning for the first time in months and some are learning the ins and outs of out-of-home care for the first time. Join us as we engage in a conversation about families navigating separation anxiety in young children. Learn strategies home visitors can use when families have questions and seek new ideas.
There have been positive effects from the first few payments of the expanded Child Tax Credit. Despite these positive trends, we know that at least 4 million children live in families that have to file with the IRS to get their Child Tax Credit. Deborah Stein, from Partnership For America’s Children, will join us to share the updates to the 2021 Child Tax Credit and advocacy ideas to reach families. There will be a dedicated Q&A at the end of the webinar.
In this webinar, we will explore how we define mental health. We will consider barriers faced by home visitors in accessing mental health services. We will also discuss strategies for supporting home visitor’s mental health.
In this webinar, participants will reflect on ways to create comfortable virtual spaces for our teams. They will learn strategies that support the parallel process of staff and family well-being. Join us as we explore techniques individual programs can implement to maintain and build relationships virtually with staff members.
Experience portions of the virtual home visiting modules that were created to hone your skills in providing an array of services in a way that promotes responsiveness and flexibility with families. Reflect on our learning journey in virtual home visiting, explore how we transfer learning to practice, and learn how to earn a free home visiting credential to showcase your new skills.
During this webinar, we will reflect on what we have learned over the past year as we utilized new and different virtual formats to provide services to families. We will highlight strategies for successful hybrid home visitation as we transition to more in-person and hybrid home visits.
High levels of Reflective Functioning in caregivers is associated with better outcomes for children. This webinar will provide an overview of what reflective functioning is and why it matters. We will explore the various levels of caregivers’ reflective functioning and share ideas about how to enhance reflective functioning during virtual home visits. In addition, participants will have an opportunity to practice rating reflective functioning using vignettes.
Please join us for a discussion with the National Diaper Bank Network as they work to implement an exciting new MIECHV funded program created by the American Rescue Plan that enables home visiting agencies to use federal funds to contract with local diaper banks. We will hear from four communities that have built strong partnerships between their diaper banks and home visiting programs.
Esta presentación compartirá estrategias para apoyar virtualmente a los padres / cuidadores a fortalecer sus interacciones con sus hijos. Se abordarán los métodos de videoconferencia tanto telefónica como interactiva.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made intimate partner violence more common—and often more severe. Screening for IPV can pose challenges under any circumstance, especially during virtual service delivery. This webinar will discuss the impact of the pandemic on intimate partner violence, introduce and review the CUES intervention, and provide scripts that can be used with families. Due to the importance to provide space for questions and answers, please note this webinar will be from 2-3:30 pm CST
This webinar will explore the basic skills that support executive functioning, paying particular attention to the connection between attachment and executive functioning and how to support and scaffold these skills in caregivers, particularly during virtual visits.
This webinar will review why attachment matters, common attachment behaviors at different ages, and the functions of attachment. We will explore how attachment behaviors such as, gaze, affect, proximity, and touch are observed in virtual home visits and phone-only visits. We will also provide ideas and activities that can strengthen the caregiver and child’s use of these attachment behaviors within their interactions to support healthy attachment.
Webinar series developed for California home visiting providers, by the First 5 Association and the Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting project.
Esta presentación se centrará en la importancia de la educación, el acceso a información confiable y comunicación sobre la vacuna contra COVID-19. Esta presentación también proporcionará un espacio para escuchar sus inquietudes y sugerencias mientras continuamos garantizando que nuestra fuerza laboral y las familias a las que servimos permanezcan seguras durante esta pandemia.
Join us as we review fundamentals of reflective supervision and how those relationship-based strategies have been transitioned to the virtual setting. Learn concrete strategies from program supervisors and managers to help keep staff engaged.
Join us for a conversation with the home visiting models focused on the importance of education, access to reliable information, and open dialogue when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine. This webinar will also provide a space to hear your concerns and suggestions as we continue to ensure our workforce and the families we serve remain safe throughout this pandemic.
This webinar will explore strategies for program staff as they continue to support families virtually. Hear from providers who are engaging with families in virtual visits and groups. Learn about the unique opportunities and special considerations they have encountered in their work virtually.
Esta presentación se centrará en las estrategias y desafíos para completar las evaluaciones a través de visitas virtuales. Se dedicará tiempo a cubrir los siguientes tipos de evaluaciones: desarrollo, depresión, violencia de pareja íntima y uso de sustancias.
What makes a regression different than a developmental delay and what may be some typical regressions in times of stress? During our webinar, we will explore the impact of the pandemic on the development of children. Join us as we discuss how we can use developmental regressions as an opportunity to join with families during these moments of vulnerability and build on their resilience.
Working remotely has changed the way we access families. Program recruitment and enrollment look and feel different. Join us as we discuss strategies to support program recruitment and enrollment virtually.
Esta presentación explorará estrategias y técnicas para trabajar con las familias virtualmente. Se discutirán las funciones de las visitadoras de hogar y las familias, junto con ejemplos de cómo involucrar a las familias en las interacciones entre padres e hijos a través de visitas virtuales.
In the current, ever changing landscape we now work in, it is more important than ever to maintain self-care and professional supports that meet your individual needs. Connecting with families virtually for their home visiting services, while balancing the demands of your own personal and family needs, and navigating an entirely virtual workspace in your ‘home office’ comes with unique stressors, many of which we tend to underestimate as we try to meet everyone’s needs. In this webinar, we will explore self-care and mindfulness activities, which can be used individually or applied to your engagements with families, and discuss strategies for group professional supports that have been successful ways to meet home visiting staff needs.
Working entirely virtual is providing opportunities for us to think of new ways of doing our work. Join us as we come together to discuss strategies on providing group reflective supervision virtually.
In this webinar you will hear strategies from providers who are engaging with fathers virtually. Learn about the unique opportunities and special considerations they have encountered in their work as they modeled and supported parent-child interactions with fathers and their children.
Join us for a conversation about the conitinuation of virtual services, partnering in decision-making, and program considerations regarding the California Home Visiting Program.
Join us as we focus on personal support activities and go deeper to explore some self-compassion and mindfulness activities. Practical experiences will be offered that you can immediately share with the families you serve virtually. In this webinar, you will learn how to care for yourself and others with grounding, reflection, and breathing exercises.
Join us as we explore the topic of reflective supervision in virtual home visiting. Review fundamentals of reflective supervision and how those relationship-based strategies have been transitioned to the virtual setting. Learn concrete strategies from program supervisors and managers to help keep staff engaged, motivated and supported virtually.
Join us for th webinar series developed for California home visiting providers by the First 5 Associate and the Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting project.
In this webinar, home visiting model representatives, including the National Alliance of Home Visiting Models, will discuss ensuring home visiting services continue in a safe and effective manner. Content will include important decision making process and program considerations needed to ensure the health and safety of both families and home visitors. This webinar will also cover the importance of professional supports as part of program delivery.
In this webinar you will hear from field representatives about the opportunities and special considerations they have encountered in their work as organizations hire and on-board staff virtually.
In this webinar you will hear from field representatives about strategies that can increase your effectiveness in supporting father engagement virtually. Learn about the opportunities and special considerations they have encountered in their work as they prepared and continue to do their work virtually.
Please note this webinar will be held September 30 instead of September 23.
You’re invited to watch this webinar recording from the Ounce before attending the live webinar on September 9 with questions submitted to our speakers.
This webinar will include a brief overview of the original I Can Parent, Too! training including reflecting on attitudes in working with parents that may have cognitive delays, disabilities, or learn differently and on barriers home visitors face including training, resources and ongoing support. We will also explore how to support a family virtually, discuss challenges and how to use the virtual means available to us to continue to engage families.
In this webinar you will hear from field representatives about the opportunities and special considerations they have encountered in their work as they prepare to launch and facilitate parent-child groups. Find out more about how you can use virtual parent-child groups to continue to strengthen parent-child relationships.
Join our next webinar where we explore the innovative approaches used in virtual connections with families. Share with your colleagues the creative strategies you have put in place as well as relate some of the challenges and needs that persist. Through this webinar, we seek to raise your voices up. While many topics may be explored, we are ensuring that some of the top areas of challenge and innovation are explored including: preventative healthcare and family wellness; professional supports; stressors on home visitors (particularly family violence); and enrollment and engagement.
In this webinar you will hear from field representatives about the barriers and opportunities they have encountered in their work facilitating virtual parent groups. Find out more about how you can use virtual groups to help bridge connections with families in your virtual service delivery.
This webinar will offer an opportunity for interaction and learning on self-care. We continue our focus on mental health by going deeper in considering your professional needs in the areas of self-care and mindfulness, and ensuring that you are supporting your own mental health.
This webinar will continue the conversation about the possible impacts of COVID-19 on families’ mental health and the subsequent impact on the parent-child relationship through a virtual service delivery lens. The discussion will continue to include ways home visitors can observe for impacts and support the parent-child relationship during virtual home visits.
In this webinar home visiting model representatives, including the National Alliance of Home Visiting Models, will discuss the important role family choice, advocacy, and state collaboration with state home visiting leadership play in ensuring home visiting services continue in a safe and effective manner. This webinar will also cover the important decision making process and program considerations needed to ensure the health and safety of both families and home visitors.
This webinar will cover the possible impacts of COVID-19 on families’ mental health and the subsequent impact on the parent-child relationship. The discussion will include ways home visitors can observe for impacts and support the parent-child relationship during virtual home visits.
Join us to discover and share strategies for virtually supporting parents/caregivers in strengthening their interactions with their children. Both telephone and interactive video conferencing methods will be addressed.
In this webinar we will explore what it means to observe, listen, and understand families in a virtual service delivery environment. We will spend time discussing both telephone and interactive video conference (IVC) delivery mechanisms.
In this webinar we will explore what it means to observe, listen, and understand families in a virtual service delivery environment. We will spend time discussing both telephone and interactive video conference (IVC) delivery mechanisms.
Join us for an interactive discussion designed to create effective messaging about the importance of home visiting for families and communities during the pandemic. We will share a brief federal and state policy update. Illinois and DC home visiting coalition members will share information about the strategies they are taking in their states. And, we will share newly developed tools and messaging strategies for you to use to lift up the importance of your work in your community. We also want to hear from you and from the families you are serving about how home visiting has helped during the crisis so that we can create the tools for you to use to tell your story and to highlight the family experience.
In this webinar home visiting model representatives, including the National Alliance of Home Visiting Models, will share an update on home visiting service delivery in the ever changing COVID-19 context. Models will discuss the implications of states re-opening in a phased approach across the country and how this may impact home visiting and will answer questions during a live Q & A session.
Come learn about self-care through the lens of Protective Factors. You know it matters, but we’ll give you the data of the why so you can feel good about making a place for it every day. Learn easy strategies you can implement now to regulate stressors and recharge. You can do it for those around you, but more importantly do it for yourself!
During this webinar we will explore the core elements of reflective supervision through the lens of a virtual approach. Time will be spent discussing important considerations, concrete strategies, and suggestions for creating a regular, reflective, and collaborative approach.
During this webinar we will explore the considerations and strategies for managing the core elements of enrollment through interactive video conferencing (IVC) or phone calls. We will also describe the process of readying new families for virtual service delivery as a part of the enrollment process.
Join us for a special Q&A session with Brookes Publishing to hear from the experts the best strategies for using the ASQ-3 in a virtual environment.
This webinar will focus on the unique challenges and strategies for completing screenings through virtual visits. Time will be spent covering the following screening types: developmental, depression, intimate partner violence and substance use.
Learn how to support families and continue administering developmental screening with ASQ-3 during the current health crisis.
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This webinar will cover how to engage families virtually and build protective factors in a time of increased stress and isolation. Using the Strengthening Families’ Protective Factors Framework we will explore strategies and techniques for engaging families virtually.
Learn how HRSA and national home visiting models are responding to the COVID 19 crisis. The discussion will explore needs and priorities from the field, model guidance, resources available to support current efforts and responses from federal, state and local levels.
Join us to learn all about the new resources developed to support your work in the virtual environment. In addition to sharing new resources, this webinar will also focus on learnings and materials foundational to virtual connections with families, and the continued opportunity for contributions from you that support peer learning. Learn more about:
In this video you will hear from professionals across the United States how they are supporting families in rural, frontier, and tribal home visiting. In the attached resource document you will find a list of strategies to consider in your work supporting families through the lens of the Strengthening Families Protective Factor Framework.
In just 15 minutes, participants will gain the ability to:
Learn the basics of using different types of technology to connect with families.
This project is generously supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Pritzker Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and by the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) as a part of a CARES Act award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), grant number H7DMC37565. The contents are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the funding organizations.