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
Home Visiting Model: All Models
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Avoiding Escalation & Increasing Personal Safety on Home Visits
Explore personal and professional safety during home visits and learn daily de-escalation strategies in this reflective webinar. A link to the recorded webinar will be sent to you after completing the registration form.
Resource: Avoiding Escalation & Increasing Personal Safety on Home Visits
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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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Reflective Supervision Part 2
This module introduces supervisors to reflective supervision, covering its roots in infant mental health, key principles, benefits, and components to support effective practice.
Resource: Reflective Supervision Part 2
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Reflective Supervision Part 1
This session introduces reflective supervision concepts, emphasizing communication, self-reflection, bias awareness, and collaboration strategies to enhance relationships and outcomes.
Resource: Reflective Supervision Part 1
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Prenatal Basics for Home Visitors
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
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Switchboard Course: Working with Interpreters (part 1)
In this free learning course, Switchboard teaches the fundamentals of working with an interpreter, including key terms, the role of an interpreter, and why it’s important to use an interpreter when working with families who have limited English proficiency. This course is intended for providers who are new to working with interpreters. The estimated time to complete this course is 30 minutes.
Resource: Working with Interpreters (part 1)
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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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Switchboard Course: Overcoming Challenges in Interpretation (part 2)
In this free learning course, Switchboard teaches providers strategies for overcoming common challenges when working with an interpreter, including preparing for an interpreted conversation, supporting interpreters during a conversation, and improving the quality of interactions. This course is intended for providers who have experience working with interpreters and families with limited English proficiency. Switchboard recommends completing part 1 “Working with Interpreters” before completing this training. The estimated time to complete this course is 20 minutes.
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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