Learn about effective home visiting practices to help nurture parent-child relationships and positive interactions. Find out how to partner with families to create a rich learning environment in the home.
The Healthy Home Visiting learning suites offer home visitors a chance to learn new skills and refresh their knowledge on key home visiting topics.
Discover the importance of establishing effective relationships with families. Learn how these bonds can support family well-being and parents' ability to support their children's healthy development.
Explore A Secure Parent-Child Relationship
Building relationships with families is an ongoing process. Learn how a family’s first interactions with a home visitor impact whether they feel welcomed and safe, and whether they feel your program can help them.
Explore the About Home-Based Services
Explore free mobile tools for home visitors from the Office of Head Start, including ELOF@HOME and Text4HomeVisitors. Discover effective practices and get text messages focusing on home-based topics and resources.
Identifying potentially unsafe situations can be a sensitive topic to talk about with families. Learn ways to communicate with families and partner with them to create safe learning environments for their children.
Explore this handbook to find research on home-based programs, strategies for best practices, video examples, and resources, along with wisdom from home visitors across the country.
The intimacy of working with families in their homes, with no other professionals present, can sometimes lead to confusing situations. Find ways to handle issues as they arise, by having program policies in place.