Make substance use screening routine for all families to normalize conversations and provide support. Explore screening practices that identify risk and learn how to pair screening results with referral resources.
Resource: Screening for Substance Use
This session includes an overview, networking, and case discussions.
Resource: Substance Use: A Collaborative Approach to Supporting Families
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.
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
This module equips home visitors to screen for substance use, intimate partner violence, and mental health issues, highlighting best practices for effective, compassionate screening.
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.
Michigan Parents as Teachers has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
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Healthy Families Michigan has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
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
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
