This session includes an overview, networking, and case discussions.
Resource: Substance Use: A Collaborative Approach to Supporting Families
Core Knowledge Area: Family Mental Health
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Supporting Families Impacted by Substance Use
Home visitors often encounter substance use issues impacting families. This 90-min workshop covers starting conversations, screening tools, supporting families, and understanding effects on children and visitors.
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Substance Use: Risks and Effects in Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development
This session includes addiction’s impact on women and children, the role of home visitors in identifying substance use, making referrals, and understanding harm reduction.
Resource: Substance Use: Risks and Effects in Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development
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Adult Mental Health Part Two: Perinatal Depression
This module covers risk factors, signs, and symptoms of perinatal depression, the importance of screening and referrals, and strategies to support affected families.
Resource: Adult Mental Health Part Two: Perinatal Depression
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Adult Mental Health Part One
This 45-minute module provides tools to identify families at risk for mental health issues, create referral plans, and offer ongoing support to those affected by mental health disorders.
Resource: Adult Mental Health Part One
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ACEs Prevention Home Visiting Companion Guide
Start with this guide that explains the pieces of the Preventing ACEs (PACEs) in Home Visiting Toolkit. This provides guidance on using the PACE Home Visiting Tool, ChEW, as well as other toolkit resources. The Companion Guide includes an overview, sample discussion starters, and references to resources that can be utilized.
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Section E: Additional ACE Factors-Discrimination: Modules on Historical Trauma and Racial Equity Training
Training modules for home visitors from the Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals on historical trauma; racism and equity.
Resource: https://institutefsp.org/
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Parents as Teachers Michigan Model Specific Guidance
Michigan Parents as Teachers has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
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Healthy Families Michigan Programs: Utilizing PAT Curriculum Guidance
Healthy Families Michigan has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit for Healthy Families programs utilizing the PAT curriculum.
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Healthy Families Michigan Model Specific Tool: Service Plan Strategies
Healthy Families Michigan has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.