Resources for Home Visitors
Home Visitor Resources
National Home Visiting Resource Center
Helping children and families thrive. CLICK HERE for the National Home Visiting Resource Center.
Click to access the: 2023 Home Visiting Yearbook
Home Visiting as Part of a Holistic Approach to Supporting Unhoused Families
Publication date: December 2023
Authors: Jessica Bruning, Dakota Bragato, Soumita Bose, Elly Miles, Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, Heather Sandstrom
Purpose: Introduces three agencies that take a comprehensive approach to meeting the needs of unhoused families, including the delivery of home visiting services, and a statewide look at Minnesota
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation in Home Visiting
Publication date: June 2023
Authors: Elly Miles, Soumita Bose, Grace Atukpawu-Tipton
Purpose: Profiles efforts in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin to connect home visiting programs to consultants focused on social-emotional growth
Mapping Evidence-Based Home Visiting Provided by Tribal-Led Organizations
Publication date: April 2023
Authors: Allison Meisch, Alexandra Joraanstad, Peter Willenborg, Eleanor Lauderback, Grace Atukpawu-Tipton
Purpose: Maps evidence-based home visiting provided by tribal-led organizations in light of federal efforts to expand services to more American Indian Alaska Native families
Home Visiting and the Opioid Crisis
Publication date: February 2023
Authors: Elly Miles, Grace Atukpawu-Tipton
Purpose: Summarizes available research on the stressors faced by families using opioids, home visiting's role in addressing opioid use, and challenges and opportunities for better reaching and serving affected families
MIECHV Program
HRSA’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program supports the Virginia Home Visiting Program and provides voluntary, evidence-based home visiting programs for expectant and new parents with children through kindergarten entry age living in communities that are at-risk for poor maternal and child health outcomes. DOWNLOAD VIRGINIA DATA
A Safe & Healthy Home
Healthy Partners on Intimate Partner Violence and Exploitation materials, webinars and resources can be found HERE.
Virginia Department of Social Services Domestic Violence Prevention program
HRSA Strategy to Address Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Safe & Healthy Relationships Card (ENGLISH)
Safe & Healthy Relationships Card (ESPAÑOL)
Additional Resources
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Mental Health Resources
Home Visitor Well-Being
Home Visitor Professional Well-Being: What It Is & Why It Matters
Improving Home Visitor Professional Well-Being
Mental Health Materials & Resources
MHA Screening: Online screening is one of the quickest and easiest ways to determine if you’re experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition. Our screens are free, confidential, and scientifically validated.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free, and confidential support to people in distress – you don’t need to be suicidal to reach out. Call 1-800-273-8255 to be connected with a crisis counselor. Crisis counselors who speak Spanish are available at 1-888-628-9454.
988 Textline: When you text 988, you will complete a short survey letting the crisis counselor know a little about your situation. You will be connected with a trained crisis counselor in a crisis center who will answer the text, provide support, and share resources if needed.
Crisis Text Line: If you prefer texting to talking on the phone, text MHA to 741-741 to be connected with a crisis counselor who will help you get through your emotions.
Warmlines: Warmlines are staffed by trained peers who have been through their own mental health struggles and know what it’s like to need someone to talk to. Visit HERE for more information on warmlines.
Child Sex Trafficking Resources & Materials
Human Trafficking Awareness Resources
Below are some resources for information and training on human trafficking and virtual vitality practices that can help ease the emotional taxation that comes from exploring difficult topics.
Free Trainings & Resources
Blue Campaign is a national public awareness campaign designed to educate the public, law enforcement, and other industry partners to recognize the indicators of human trafficking, and how to appropriately respond to possible cases.
Training Module: Though this is for the general public, approached from a lens not specific to home visiting, it provides a well-produced informative training.
General Public Indicators Training Course | Homeland Security (dhs.gov)
21:56 minutes, Spanish closed captions, Adjustable speed
Polaris responds to sex and labor trafficking as they happen. We learn from that response and share that learning. Finally, we use what we learn to pilot big, new ideas for slowly, carefully, finally, dismantling big, old systems that make trafficking possible. We are focused where we think we can make the most change: Systems that trap impoverished migrants in degrading conditions; systems that allow sex traffickers to hide behind screens and systems that, if optimized, would allow the financial services industry to use traffickers’ own money to shut them down.
Training Module: Series of 6 short modules with quizzes at end. Not available in Spanish closed caption.
Human Trafficking Training - Polaris (polarisproject.org)
Not available in Spanish closed caption, Adjustable speed
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children training offers three modules and builds a comprehensive foundation on the issue of child sex trafficking for all audiences including law enforcement, child welfare, as well as concerned citizens. To access click here.
The National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical Training offers webinars Live on-line instructor lead trainings.
Virtual Vitality
Parent Education Tools — Early Impact Virginia (earlyimpactva.org)
Scroll down to Virtual Vitality Practices. Use the “Centering Practice” (3:24 minutes) before exploring the information and the “Sensory Scan 3-2-1" (2:42) or “Sensory Scan 3-2-1 Remix” (5:18 minutes) after.