| Drawing on lived experience and research, this session explores how language shapes perceptions of addiction and recovery and offers practical strategies to reduce stigma and foster compassion. |
Core Knowledge Area: Professional Practice
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Project ECHO-Stigma: Words Matter
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Conversation Starters for Newcomer Mental Health
The Office of Global Michigan and Treetops Collective partnered to develop this one-pager to support home visiting programs working with refugee and immigrant newcomer families. This conversation guide outlines 14 questions home visitors can use to start conversations about mental health with newcomers. These questions exemplify how to use plain language, cultural curiosity, and shared human experiences to build trust and avoid stigmatizing terminology in mental health conversations with newcomer families.
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Project ECHO- Working with Families as a Mandated Reporter Training
This Project ECHO session explores working with families as a mandated reporter, with practical strategies to navigate reporting requirements while building trust, promoting safety, and honoring family strengths.
Resource: Project ECHO- Working with Families as a Mandated Reporter Training
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Professional Development Plan Templates
The Institute for Home Visiting Workforce Development created four PD Plan templates to support home visitors and supervisors. Adapt them to fit your needs. The linked site offers ideas to inspire your professional growth.
Resource: PD Plan Templates
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Compassionate Conversations in Home Visiting: Supporting Families Navigating Substance Use
This tip sheet, which was created directly from input from families, provides practical guidance, scripts, and tools to support compassionate, nonjudgmental engagement with caregivers during pregnancy and early parenting.
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Resource Guide for Coping with Secondhand Trauma
This resource guide helps professionals recognize and cope with secondhand trauma by outlining common signs, impacts on work, practical self-care and organizational strategies to prevent burnout and sustain well-being.
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Pause, Reset, Nourish to Promote Wellbeing
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) provides a factsheet on the self-care strategy called Pause, Reset, Nourish that promotes professional wellbeing, concrete self-care actions, and resources for mental health and professional wellbeing. This factsheet is available in both English and Spanish
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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care with Newcomers
Switchboard provides a introductory webinar on trauma-informed care that reviews compassion fatigue, self-care techniques for direct service professionals, and the strategies for maintaining healthy professional boundaries.
Resource: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care with Newcomers
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Introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NTCSN) provides an introduction to secondary traumatic stress. This online guide addresses who is at risk, prevention and intervention strategies, and strategies to build individual and organizational resiliency.
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Practicing Personal Safety While Partnering with Families
This module covers visit prep, personal safety and handling unique safety situations, avoiding risks, self-care techniques, and program responsibilities.
Resource: Practicing Personal Safety While Partnering with Families