Core Training

Core Parent Survey Training (Parent Visitor/Family Assessment Worker & Supervisor/Program Manager)		Core Family Support Training (Family Support Visitor/Home Visitor & Supervisor/Program Manager)

Parenting Resource Coordinators and Supervisors (4 days):

This 4-day training is designed for staff who initially reach out to offer every new parent access to support available in the community, including home visiting. Over four days, it presents the tools for actually implementing a successful Parent Survey process with families. At the end of this training, each participant will have developed inter-rater reliability in using the Parent Survey tool. Starting with building the philosophical foundation for our work with families and overall program goals, the following topics will be addressed providing practical "how to" strategies and many opportunities for skill-building practice:

• Underlying Principles: Four Guideposts for Relationships with Families
• Overview of the Parent Survey Process
• The Parent Survey Conversation
• Completing the Parent Survey
• Involving Fathers
• Documentation
• Challenging Parent Survey Situations
• Overview of the Role of the Family Visitor
• Professional Boundaries, and Parent Resource Coordinator Self-Care Tips
• Quality Assurance and Benefits of Supervision for Parent Resource Coordinators

Supervisors Only (1 day):

This day of training introduces Parenting Resource Coordinator supervisors to their four basic roles, with a special focus on meeting the needs of the individual supervisors attending:

• Supporting Parent Resource Coordinators to Integrate Training into On-the-Job Skills
• Clinical Supervision Specific to Parent Survey process
• Program Management and Quality Assurance (including data system, hiring and training staff, internal quality management, etc.)
• Community Liaison

Costs

• $4200 training fee for 4 days of training for staff/5 days of training for supervisors (includes per diem)
• Training materials for each participant at $50/parent visitor and $100/supervisor
  (Please note: if both Family Support Visitor and Parenting Survey Training are scheduled for one site, each supervisor pays just $140 for all materials for both sessions.)
• Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel and any airport taxes

Family Support Visitors (Home Visitors) and Supervisors (4 days):

This 4-day training gives those working in an intensive home visitation program the tools for actually implementing successful services to families. Starting with building the philosophical foundation for our work on-going with families and overall program goals, the following topics will be addressed providing practical “how to" strategies and many opportunities for practice in each area:

• Underlying Principles: Four Guideposts for Relationships with Families
• Engaging Families: Building Trusting, Strength-Based Relationships
• Supporting Growth in Families (including Tools for Building on Parental Competencies, using families' values and strengths to grow strong families, developing goals and setting families up to achieve them, and maintaining the partnership).
• Promoting Positive Parent-Child Relationships and Healthy Child Development (including discussion of bonding, attachment, empathy, overview of parent-child relationship, assessing that relationship on home visits, and strategies for supporting the development of nurturing parent-child relationships and healthy child development, including brain development).
• Recognizing Family Progress (including effective ways to acknowledge progress, documentation).
• Integrating the Pieces of the Puzzle (including priorities for initial home visits, practice scenarios).
• Overview of the Parent Survey Process
• Professional Boundaries, Limit Setting, and Family Visitor Self-Care Tips
• Quality assurance and benefits of supervision for Family Visitors

Family Support Visitor (Family Visitor) Supervisors Only (1 day):

This day of training introduces Family Visitor supervisors to their four basic roles, with a special focus on meeting the needs of the individual supervisors attending:

• Management Systems for Launching Your Program
• Supporting Family Visitors to Integrate Training into On-the-Job Skills
• Clinical Supervision
• Quality Management for New Programs

Costs

Group size is limited to 15 Family Support Visitors and/or supervisors. For one group:

• $4200 training fee for 4 days of training for staff/5 days of training for supervisors (includes per diem)
• Training materials for each participant at $50/home visitor and $100/supervisor
  (Please note: if both Family Support Visitor and Parenting Survey Training are scheduled for one site, each supervisor pays just $140 for all materials for both sessions.)
• Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel and any airport taxes

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