This approach identifies positive skills in individuals or families and uses them to support growth in those areas where families experience challenges.
What is strengths-based approach?
100
When a family needs to be connected to a service based on an identified need, a home visitor may do this.
What is a referral?
100
Bouncing back, rebounding, adapting are all ways to describe this important capacity that all people have.
What is resiliency?
100
This is a certificate that is the equivalent of a high school diploma.
What is a GED or Hi-Set?
100
A mother gave birth a month ago and is now showing new signs of fatigue, despair, and lack of connection with her baby.
What is postpartum depression or baby blues?
200
Examples of this tool include respectful eye contact, non-verbal indications of listening and paraphrasing or repeating information that has been shared.
What is active listening?
200
This is a discipline strategy where a parent temporarily separates a child from an environment where inappropriate behavior has occurred.
What is time out?
200
This child gave the Home Visiting Network an awesome pep talk.
Who is Kid President?
200
This is a nutritional program that provides financial help for children, pregnant mothers and fathers of young children up to age 5.
What is WIC?
200
This is something a home visitor is required to do when a parent discloses something like a violent interaction between both parents that places their child at risk.
What is mandated reporting or filing a 51A?
300
This home visiting tool happens when the home visitor shares some information about themselves, but not so much that the focus of the conversation stays on them.
What is self disclosure?
300
This is an umbrella term to describe preventing unwanted pregnancies.
What is family planning or birth control?
300
Allowing room for mistakes and treating ourselves with kindness instead of self-criticism is a form of self care discussed in Round Two.
What is self compassion?
300
This is a program that helps low income residents pay their heating bill.
What is fuel assistance?
300
A common reason why someone might be hesitant to talk about where they were born, especially if English isn't their first language.
What is undocumented immigration status?
400
Making a task list and prioritizing the items is an example of this skill.
What is time management?
400
This is a process that helps families decide what they want to accomplish and devise a plan to achieve the results they want.
What is goal setting or IFSP?
400
This self care strategy was discussed at a previous HVN. It is the quality of being amused.
What is humor?
400
A federally funded program to support children under three who may have developmental delays.
What is Early Intervention?
400
The extreme negative impact on home visitors who are repeatedly exposed to stories of trauma in the families they serve.
What is vicarious or secondary trauma?
500
Maintaining clarity about the difference between being a "friend" and being a home visitor is an example of this.
What is professional boundaries?
500
A method of guided conversation that promotes behavior change by exploring a participant's readiness for change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
500
Activities like breathing deeply, tuning into your body and reading can help HVs achieve this feeling.
What is relaxation or rejuvenation?
500
Early Head Start, Healthy Families America, Healthy Families Mass, Healthy Steps and Parents as Teachers have research supporting them which make them this.
What is an evidence based home visiting program?
500
This may be going on when a parent begins to cancel visits after meeting consistently and appears to be generally happier.