Twice weekly home visits are designed to stimulate the parent - child verbal interaction, reading, and educational play critical to early childhood brain development.
Services in primary care screened all families for risk, and then coordinated
weekly home visits by family support workers given five weeks training.
Among programs serving preschool - age children (ages 4 - 5), using trained non-professionals and
conducting weekly home visits produced mixed results.
Le Bonheur Healthy Families is an intensive and long - term service, which generally starts
with weekly home visits and gradually tapers off to quarterly visits.
In the program, known as HIPPY, parents receive
weekly home visits from a coach who shows them how to prepare their children for school.
To learn as much as possible, the study is using three types of information about engagement: (1) documentation (a.k.a.
weekly home visit logs) kept by home visitors and supervisors, (2) interviews with staff, and (3) videos capturing what happens during home visits.
Weekly home visits use a Primary Service Provider Model with a Coaching method to effectively help parents as their child's first and best teacher.
Weekly home visiting coupled with monthly group socialization activities for parents and their children is expected to be the primary service delivery approach for many of these children and their families.
Now a new study shows that screening for the disorder and providing short - term, relationship - focused therapy
through weekly home visits can relieve depression among minority mothers, even in the face of poverty and personal histories of abuse or violence.
Responsible for
conducting weekly home visits and working closely with bio-family and resource family (substitute caregivers), as well as conducting Therapeutic Family Time (supervised visits) and transportation to and from visits.
During weekly home visits and parent - toddler activity groups, trained Early Head Start staff plan activities with families to foster the child's development, increase family literacy, promote healthy parent - child relationships, provide parenting support and education.
Most of the activities were deliberately chosen to increase intelligence and academic skills, and teachers
made weekly home visits to each child's family (Schweinhart, 2003).
Le Bonheur Healthy Families is an intensive and long - term service, which generally starts
with weekly home visits and graually tapers off to quarterly visits.
While at the program, she taught parenting classes, facilitated parent support groups and conducted
weekly home visits.
Intervention: Selected health visitors were trained in the Family Partnership Model to provide
a weekly home visiting service from 6 months antenatally to 12 months postnatally.
Janice, a home visitor with Early Head Start, discussed infant massage with Caitlin during
her weekly home visit.
Upon entry in the program, we assess families» risk factors and support systems, and in monthly or
weekly home visits, we develop individualized plans that help parents set and achieve goals.
Home - Visiting Services:
Weekly home visits are offered to families on the Waiting List and monthly visits to every enrolled family.
If you must be put on our wait list, you will be eligible to receive outreach services, such as resource referrals,
weekly home visits, and Friday respite childcare.
In home - based settings, children and their families are supported through
weekly home visits and bi-monthly group socialization experiences.
Our Infant Home Based Service is designed to support and strengthen families through
weekly home visits.