This video provides an overview of the Framework for Effective Practice, or House Framework, as it applies to home-based staff. It describes the five components and how they translate to home-based practices.
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.
Learn why it’s important to teach positive parenting in home-based programs. Find out how to help parents manage their reactions to their child’s behavior while promoting healthy child development.
Hear from Brenda Jones Harden as she takes a look at how the ELOF relates to the work that home visitors do with parents, families, and their children.
Find out what makes home visitors most effective in delivering Head Start home-based services. Learn the key skills that can help to promote success for families enrolled in the program. Explore tools and strategies to assess and improve the skills you already have, and learn about those you can develop.
This webinar outlines "secondary traumatic stress," or STS. Find out how it affects home visitors and how to prevent and reduce STS.
When your program is selecting a home-based curriculum, use this checklist to guide the decision-making process.
Research-based curricula for the home-based program option is founded on solid research around parenting concepts, skills, and practices that promote healthy child development. Use this checklist to evaluate your home-based curriculum.
Program Administrator's Checklist for the Head Start Home-Based Program Option
Learn strategies to support ongoing home safety conversations with families using home safety checklists.