Professional development supports for home visitors and supervisors (revised): strengthening the home visiting workforce
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- OPRE report
- Author(s):
- Peters, Rebecca, author Benatar, Sarah, author Sandstrom, Heather, author
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Urban Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Urban Institute, September 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Community Health Workers -- education Occupations -- statistics & numerical data Staff Development -- organization & administration United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- A strong body of evidence shows the positive impacts of home visiting on children and their families, including improvements in maternal and child health, child development, and parenting practices. Early childhood home visiting programs rely on well-trained staff to deliver interventions, but little research is available on the educational background or preservice preparation home visitors typically bring to the job or their experiences with ongoing professional development (Sandstrom et al. 2020). This short report examines issues related to professional development for home visitors and home visiting supervisors. The findings presented are based on a national study of the home visiting workforce in Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program–funded agencies and interviews with experts in higher education and in the home visiting field. Survey data were collected in October through December 2018. Site visits involving focus groups with home visitors and interviews with program managers and supervisors occurred in September through December 2018. Interviews with subject matter experts began in November 2017 and continued into 2018. The report also shares information from a scan of online resources available in 2017–2019 related to training and professional development for home visiting program staff. This report is focused only on the topic of professional development, but additional findings on the workforce are reported in our full research report (Sandstrom et al. 2020), research brief (Benatar et al. 2020), and research snapshot (Sandstrom, Genua, Lou, and Benatar 2020).
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (ix, 24 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Edition:
- Revised
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918299887306676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918299887306676