Discover what works when engaging young parents. Explore practical strategies, creative tools, and real-world do’s and don’ts to overcome barriers, build meaningful connections, and better support young families.
Core Knowledge Area: Family Engagement
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Project ECHO- Crisis Home Visits Training
This Project ECHO session focuses on crisis home visits, offering practical tools to assess risk, ensure safety, and support families during challenging situations with compassion and confidence.
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Project Echo: Engaging in Hard Conversations
This Project ECHO session equips participants with practical strategies to engage in challenging conversations with empathy, clarity, and respect across diverse perspectives.
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Tips for Home Visiting with Newcomer Families
The Refugee Development Center developed this one-pager to support home visiting programs working with refugee and immigrant newcomer families. This tip sheet outlines 8 critical strategies to successfully engage and retain refugee and immigrant newcomer families in home visiting programs.
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The Family Engagement Toolkit: Guidance for Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs on Improving Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention
The goal of the Family Engagement Toolkit is to help home visiting programs strengthen their engagement with families through practical resources. The Family Engagement Toolkit is one component of the Understanding and Expanding the Reach of Home Visiting (HV-REACH) project.
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Talking with Families About Safe Sleep
This webinar explores how to engage families with honest, and open dialogue related to infant safe sleep. During this webinar you will explore how to apply risk reduction techniques in safe sleep conversations.
Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhal4HUe4cU
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Relationship Building and Boundaries
Explore how to build strong, trust-based relationships in home visiting. Learn key practices, benefits, and how to navigate boundary challenges as relationships evolve.
Resources: https://youtu.be/Kl2YCjpfrD4
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Parent-Child Interaction Observation Training
Explore a parent-child interaction guide while building observation skills to support attunement in infants and toddlers.
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Parent Child Interaction Observation Part 1
https://youtu.be/PYxjLoUnRYMParent Child Interaction Observation Part 2
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Infant Safe Sleep Webinar Grief & Bereavement
Grief is complex. This webinar provides an overview of grief and bereavement and strategies to support families. The webinar discusses strategies for supporting families who’ve experienced a pregnancy, infant, and/or maternal loss.
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Having Hard Conversations Training
Explore effective practices for navigating hard conversations in home visiting. Learn how to set the stage, use a strength-based approach, and improve outcomes through reflective, relationship-centered communication.
Resource: https://youtu.be/Vz25G8yuE8A