Home Visiting
Relationship-based Training for Early Head Start Home Visitors
The 2007 Head Start Act states home visitor training must focus on:
- Structured, child-focused home visiting that promotes parent’s ability to support their children
- Strengths-based parent education
- Infant/toddler child development
- Methods to promote emergent literacy
- Strategies to determine health and developmental services
- Strategies for crisis intervention and,
- Prenatal health and well being
This 3-day intensive workshop support staff in many of those areas.
Based on Linda Kimura’s book “Babies Can’t Wait: Relationship-based home visiting”, it provides a substantial base for the EHS home-based program option, focused on best practices as developed by the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC) at WestEd.
Training is practical and concrete – a nurturing, supportive environment that encourages participants to bridge theory into practice. Participants leave excited about home visiting and eager to try new techniques such as:
- Specific and practical methods for organizing home visits that support their agency’s chosen curriculum. (The BCW 4-Step Home Visit Model)
- Observation and recording of parent-child interactions. (The BCW CHECKLIST)
- All aspects required for home visiting in the home-based program option.
- Each participant receives a 100-page Workbook Manual.
- Music every day – Linda brings her ukulele and teaches new songs, including her signature song, “The Babies Can’t Wait Home Visitor Song”
We will take up to 25 participants in a training. Smaller programs are encouraged to invite other programs to join them, thus reducing costs to each.
Please contact us to book this powerful and enjoyable workshop.
The famous (infamous?) Babies Can’t Wait Home Visitor Song
lyrics©2002 L Kimura. Melody: traditional (Polly Wolly Doodle)
sung at every Babies Can’t Wait training
Oh I had some tea, and I found my keys
Making home visits all day
Gassed up my car, and bought a candy bar
Making home visits all day
I feel good! I feel good!
I feel reallllllllllll good today
And I’m never latem ’cause Babies Can’t Wait
Making home visits all day
Oh I brought some dental stuff, and nutrition stuff
Making home visits all day
Child development is fun, we work till we are done
Making home visits all day
I feel good! I feel good!
I feel reallllllllll good today
And I’m never late, ’cause Babies Can’t Wait
Making home visits all day
Oh I don’t need a card, but I work real hard
Making home visits all day
And when we are done, we’ve had a lot of fun
Making home visits all day
I feel good! I feel good!
I feel reallllllllllll good today
And I’m never late (WHY?) ’cause Babies Can’t Wait!
Making home visits all day!