Building Relationships with Families

• Establish warm, supportive, and empowering relationships with families

• Respect cultural differences in beliefs, values, and priorities

• Build trust with parents while learning about and honoring their culture

• Reflect on how personal values, experiences, ethics, and biases may impact relationships

Using HOVRS to Coach HVs

• Understand what best practices look like during a home visit

• Use HOVRS to reflect on practices and identify professional development needs

• Apply the tool to support effective practices and improve program quality

• Practice scoring HOVRS scales with video examples

• Learn how to use HOVRS in PBCs and TLCs

Being Responsive to Family Strengths

• Build parent confidence to support competence and engagement

• Encourage parents to recognize and use their strengths more often

• Explore strategies that increase collaboration during visits

• Introduce the PICCOLO tool for identifying and sharing strengths

Planning Home Visits with Parents

• Collaborate with parents to enhance their child’s learning at home

• Engage parents in planning meaningful home visits

• Support parenting skills while using the home as the primary learning environment

• Learn practical steps and tips for effective visit planning

Using Materials in the Home & Daily Routines on HVs

• Support parent-child interactions that extend beyond the visit

• Use familiar, culturally relevant materials to increase engagement

• Facilitate activities with what families already have at home

• Transition away from reliance on a “bag of materials”

• Recognize daily routines as powerful opportunities for child development

Infant Mental Health

• Understand how trauma impacts child development and family functioning

• Explore the effects of stress on parenting and responsiveness to programs

• Support attachment relationships and strengthen protective factors

• Reflect on the role of home visiting in fostering family resilience and well-being