Home Visiting 102: Skills and Strategies for Successful Home Visits
This 30-minute training explores the daily activities of Family Support Professionals (FSPs) and describes skills that can improve an FSP's effectiveness: taking a strengths-based approach, using strategies for parent support, and the importance of effective communication skills.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this training, you will understand:
After completing this training, you will understand:
- How relationships are the key element of successful home visiting
- Common characteristics of active listening
- Various strategies for effectively eliciting information from parents
- The role of the Family Support Professional
- Specific needs and learning styles of each family
- Strategies for redirecting and/or connecting conversation to child outcomes
- Basic characteristics of both adolescent and adult learners
A note to our learners:
This training module is a consolidated and updated version that replaces the original series on home visiting. The previous modules have been retired.
- Supplemental Materials
- Estimated Time to Complete
- 30 minutes
- Skills Addressed
- Parenting education Focus on positive child outcomes and parent-child interaction Individualization to needs of each family Planning Effective Home Visits Role of the home visitor Cultural competency Effective inquiry Active listening Positive communication Relationship building Respect and responsiveness Relationship-based Family Partnerships
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