Overview of prenatal development, care, and support strategies for home visitors, including lifestyle impacts, bonding, boundaries, and preterm birth.
Resource: Prenatal Basics for Home Visitors
Core Knowledge Area: Parent Health and Nutrition
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Why Screen Women for Substance Use, Intimate Partner Violence, Mental Health and Perinatal Depression?
This module equips home visitors to screen for substance use, intimate partner violence, and mental health issues, highlighting best practices for effective, compassionate screening.
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About Intimate Partner Violence
This training explores intimate partner violence (IPV) as a critical public health issue with far-reaching consequences. Participants will examine how IPV impacts lifelong health, opportunity, and well-being, and discuss strategies for prevention and support.
Resource: Intimate Partner Violence
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6 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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9 Parents as Teachers Michigan Model Specific Guidance
Michigan Parents as Teachers has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
Resource:
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8 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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7 Healthy Families Michigan Model Specific Tool: Service Plan Strategies
Healthy Families Michigan has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
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3 Preventing ACEs Home Visiting Tool Training Series Module 3: Role of Leadership
The third module in the PACEs Home Visiting Tool Training Series provides best practice strategies, common challenges experienced, the role of reflective supervision and leadership support in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
Resource: Module 3: Role of Leadership
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2 Preventing ACEs Home Visiting Tool Training Series Module 2: Starting the Conversation
The second module in the PACEs Home Visiting Tool Training Series provides a deeper look at utilizing the Childhood Experiences Worksheet discussion tool with families as well as the conversation starters in the Companion Guide.
Resource: Module 2: Starting the Conversation