Home Visitors spend their professional, and many their personal, life caring for and about new & expectant parents. Find out more

Parenting is hard! And, sometimes guiding parents through their blind journey can be even harder. That's why this Spring, we are pleased to present several trainings to home visitors. The series was designed with the accreditation requirements for Healthy Families America sites in mind, but we hope you'll agree that the sessions provide valuable information for any home visitor. 

 

Officer Paul Rondeau of the Manchester Police Department, will share important considerations for home visitors' safety.  He will discuss what home visitors should consider both prior and during visits as well as what one should be thinking about to leave a client's home safely.  Officer Rondeau stresses the importance of sharing information with your colleagues and tips for diffusing an angry client. Finally, we'll cover some general personal safety information from which anyone can benefit regardless of your professional role.  Learn More  -or-  Register

After the webinar occurs, you can watch a recording. Email mdoyle@nhchildrenstrust.org for a link.

 

"The US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines 2008 Update, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence" and the Surgeon General's Reports on health outlines a model for tobacco treatment summarized as Ask, Assist and Refer to QuitWorks-NH (www.QuitWorks-NH.org).  Learn about this model as it relates to home visitors, in this webinar.   Teresa Brown of the NH Tobacco Prevention program presents this informative webinar.  Learn More & find out how to register.

After the webinar occurs, you can watch a recording. Email mdoyle@nhchildrenstrust.org for a link.  

 

Integrating the Protective Factors into your Home Visiting work

June 23 from 9 am - 2 pm

JTG Training Center at Grappone Toyota, Bow, NH

 

The Strengthening Families Framework identifies the characteristics that when present and robust in families, make families stronger and child abuse and neglect less likely to occur. Professionals working with children are in a great position to promote these characteristics, called Protective Factors, through small but significant changes in approaching your work. 

It is a cornerstone of home visiting to approach families with a strengths-based lens. The Strengthening Families Framework can help support that perspective by identifying specific strengths and strategies to promote them.  

NH Children's Trust Strengthening Families Director, Julie Day and Training Director, Maria Doyle present this day-long training based on the Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in your Work training series.  They've adapted that 7-module series into a one-day session especially for home visitors. 

Learn more & register

Webinar: One-Touch/Healthy Homes

Date: TBA

 

Interested in helping your clients make their homes healthier and where to find resources to make this happen? The Healthy Homes One-Touch home visiting model will provide you tools to assess a home, provide healthy home education, and provide valuable resources to advise on removing lead hazards, making the home more energy efficient and removing asthma triggers.  This webinar will review the changes to the current One-Touch Check-up form and review the new e-referral system hosted by Fluidsurvey.

Join Cherie Bammarito, Child & Family Services, and Beverly Drouin, Division of Public Health, in this upcoming webinar.  You, too, can be a healthy homes advocate!

 

Home visiting and domestic violence

Date: TBA

Stay tuned for more on this training