This one-day training familiarizes participants with strategies to enhance the numerous parenting capacities called upon to nurture a child's development. This training is for practitioners who focus on maximizing the guide’s effectiveness as a planning and recording tool; as well as a vehicle to support parenting capacities, knowledge and skills.
Audience:
The training and guide are intended to support paraprofessional and professional home visitors in their work with parents.
Institute Features:
A comprehensive guide prepared by experienced Canadian experts in early childhood education, early intervention, child development, home visiting and family support
A section on making an effective telephone contact and a framework for the initial home visit, which is different from all the rest
A section on sharing the planning process with families
50 activities that strengthen such parenting capacities as confidence, self-esteem, resourcefulness, sensitivity, problem solving, communication, and motivation
A section of corresponding handouts that can be reproduced and shared with families
The Comfort, Play and Teach section that contains over 150 parent-child focused activities for the ages 0 - 5 years in the areas of cognitive, social-emotional and language development
A section of Frequently Asked Questions that relate to common parenting issues/concerns in the early years of development
Institute Goals:
To enhance the skills and knowledge of home visitors in planning effective visits with families
To increase the repertoire of strategies that support families to reach their goals
To strengthen a more inclusive approach toward working with families
To facilitate the application of theory and research into practice
ACTIVITY-BASED GUIDE FOR HOME VISITORS
Protocol Section
Focus:
Effective telephone contact
Framework for the first home visit
Preparation for successive visits
Planning process with families
Family planning sheet
Strengthening parenting capacities
Focus:
Self-esteem
Confidence
Coping
Knowledge of child development
Problem solving
Communication
Values and beliefs
Resourcefulness
Activities to enhance early development
Focus:
Framework of Comfort, Play and Teach
Areas of development – Language, Social- Emotional and Cognitive
