Rapid Response Home Visitor Training
Rapid Response Home Visiting is a national effort designed to support home visiting professionals in maintaining meaningful connection with families during the pandemic and beyond. Together, experts from across the field developed competency-based, best practice resources to support home visitors and families in the transition to virtual service delivery.
Available in English and Spanish, all materials are accessible on-line for easy access through the Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals.
AVAILABLE NOW! Modules are now available in Spanish
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AVAILABLE NOW! Modules are now available in Spanish •
Online Training Modules
This interactive series of 6 training modules provides the foundational knowledge and best practice principles for delivering virtual home visiting services. With clear guidance and tips from the field, this series was designed to support home visitors in all aspects of their work. See each training below!
>>> All 6 training modules are now available in Spanish!
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Virtual Home Visiting 101: Service Delivery Overview
Available in Spanish HERE
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Virtual Home Visiting 102: Preparing Yourself and Families
Available in Spanish HERE
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Virtual Home Visiting 103: Engaging Your Families
Available in Spanish HERE
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Virtual Home Visiting 104: Facilitating Parent-Child Connections
Available in Spanish HERE
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Virtual Home Visiting 105: Screening and Assessment
Available in Spanish HERE
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Virtual Home Visiting 106: Supporting the Whole Family
Available in Spanish HERE
Supervisor’s Toolkit
This interactive toolkit provides resources and information for supervisors of home visiting. Supervisors, trainers, home visitors, and many other experts in the field came together to create an interactive document that will guide you on your journey through the rapidly evolving field of service delivery.
Inside you will find reflections, tips, guidance, and inspiration alongside tools such as decision trees, templates, and questionnaires to support you in exploring and strengthening the use of home visiting services in your program.
Webinars
Our live and recorded webinars are accompanied with downloadable resource guides and slide decks for a total learning experience. They will assist users in gaining knowledge and skills for home visiting.
Earn Your Digital Badge!
Upon completion of the six VHV training modules, users can earn their Virtual Home Visiting Digital Badge.
This badge represents the attainment of key knowledge and strategies needed to implement virtual home visiting services. Digital badges are an online representation of skills gained. Like badges sewn onto clothing, they represent skills earned. Each badge is unique to the user who earned it and can be verified by any organization.
The Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals
The Institute is an online suite of professional development services that embraces the research behind best practices in adult learning and immersive technology. This collaborative and cross-model approach gives all home visitors easy access to quality, competency-based learning modules.
All materials are free and accessible on-line. Click the button below to get started!