Home-visitation Programs
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– Evaluation –
Evaluation Made Easy: Examples of Practical Evaluations - Home Visiting Program 
Author: Mead, June (7 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta
Description: This bulletin includes a brief introduction to a key indicator, a case example of a community-based program making a difference in the indicator highlighted, sample program goals and objectives, description of program intervention, a sample evaluation plan, key evaluation results, reporting hints and other resources.
– General Information –
First Signs: Sharing Concerns Parent to Parent
Description: This fact sheet offers useful guidelines for friends, relatives and caregivers who wish to share a concern about a child's development with the child's parent.
Author: Whiting, Gwen
Description: This article is discusses how to work with and help parents who are grieving. It clearly explains all the states a person goes through as they deal with lost. The stages are explained and suggestions on how you can provide support are included.
The concept of ENUF is explained in terms of how to help people in crisis.
ENUF
Empathy
Non-judgment
Unconditionality
Feeling-focus
Home Visiting Community Planning Tool
Author: Schreiber, Lisa; Jamie Colvard; Barbara Gebhard
Description: The ZERO TO THREE tool guides communities through the process of creating new or expanding existing home visiting services that meet their unique needs. It helps communities use data to identify their strengths, needs, and gaps in current home visiting services; choose an evidence-based program model; and align work at the local level with state efforts. Though this tool is relevant to any situation in which home visiting services are being explored, it is especially useful for communities receiving funding through the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.
Maximizing the Impact of State Early Childhood Home Visitation Program
Author: Szekely , Amanda (1 more by this author)
Description: The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices has published a new issue brief, Maximizing the Impact of State Early Childhood Home Visitation Programs, that looks at how governors can better integrate home visiting programs into effective, comprehensive state early childhood systems. Strategies include: promoting shared accountability across state agencies, developing research-based quality standards and improving data linkages to track outcomes and better target services.
The Impact of Childhood Disability: The Parent's Struggle
Author: Moses, Ken
Description: This article is discusses how to work with and help parents who have a child with a disability. It clearly explains all the states a family goes through as they deal with the reality that their child has a disability. The states are explained and suggestions on how you can provide support are included.
"As disability bluntly shatters the dreams, parents face a complicated, draining, challenging, frightening, and consuming task. They must raise the child they have, while letting go of the child they dreamed of. They must go on with their lives, cope with their child as he or she is now, let go of the lost dreams, and generate new dreams. To do all this, the parent must experience the process of grieving."
Also available in pdf at http://www.centerhearingandspeech.org/sites/default/files/Ken%20Moses--Grief%20Article.pdf.
– Programming Resource –
Author: Johnson-Staub, Christine (3 more by this author); Stephanie Schmit
Description: The toolkit includes:
· background on home visiting partnerships and information on available home visiting models and their potential for use in partnership with FFN;
· a planning guide to explore home visiting partnerships, including potential policy changes; and
· case studies of existing partnerships between home visiting models and FFN providers. Each case study includes information about the model used, professional development and workforce implications, implementation, challenges, and any available evaluation results.
Home Visitation Best Practices: A Review of the Literature
Description: The literature review on home visitation is based on a review of over 15 publications from 2000 to the present. This review of focuses on: (1) the research evaluating home visitation programs, (2) home visitation program best practices, and (3) model program profiles.
Revisiting Home Visiting: Summary of a Workshop
Description: This article explores home visiting and the role of research involved. It describes the importance of home visitors and the roles they have in the intervention programs that save and better many lives.
SpecialQuest Multimedia Training Library
Description: The SpecialQuest Multimedia Training Library supports the inclusion of young children with disabilities birth–five and their families, in early care and education settings. The SpecialQuest materials and approach have been used with over 5,000 participants nationwide, refined over the past ten years, and have been shown to create and sustain change. SpecialQuest Birth-Five provides these materials at no cost with funding from the Office of Head Start. May be used as professional development or inservice training for staff.
Materials include short videos, training scripts and handouts, and other materials for both early childhood programs and home visitation programs. Some are available in Spanish and other languages.
– Research –
Revisiting Home Visiting: Summary of a Workshop
Description: This article explores home visiting and the role of research involved. It describes the importance of home visitors and the roles they have in the intervention programs that save and better many lives.