Online, Self-Paced Home Visitor Training
Strengthen your skills and experience more confidence with the families you serve! We offer flexible online, self-paced courses centered on strengths-based home visiting practices.
Our Online Courses are Self-Paced!
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Healthy Boundaries
Experience more confidence and effective boundaries with the families you serve!
Understanding and implementing healthy boundaries is essential to providing a safe space for you and the families you serve. Without healthy professional and personal boundaries, home visitors can burn out and families can feel judged. But, having healthy boundaries can be hard in this intense work.
Healthy Boundaries will allow home visitors to have confidence with the families you serve!
In this popular self-paced online course, you will learn about boundaries, how to establish and maintain them and how to adapt them when needs change. We have added bonus content!
This is a self-paced online course!
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Planning with Parents
Enhance your collaboration skills to increase family engagement and maximize outcomes!
When you collaborate with parents throughout the home visiting process, they are more engaged and have more meaningful and impactful experiences. In this course, you will learn strategies for effectively planning goals and home visits with parents. You will also learn how to plan for transitions that occur in families, in program staff and when families transition to new services.
Planning with Parents will strengthen your skills in partnering with parents.
In this self-paced online course you will learn practical strategies to guide collaborative planning, build trust, and empower parents.
This is a self-paced online course!
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See the Good
Noticing and encouraging the great things families already do builds their confidence during your home visits!
When you notice and point out all the strengths families bring, they are more engaged and willing to try new things. In this course, you will learn to apply strengths-based principles in home visiting, use supportive communication, and engage in reflective practices.
See the Good will help you notice, name, and encourage your families’ strengths.
In this self-paced online course, you will gain skills for noticing family strengths, using language that encourages, providing feedback that matters, and caring for yourself in the process.
This is a self-paced online course!
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Safe, Seen and Supported
Early Relational Health in Home Visiting
Learn how early relationships shape well-being for infants, families, and you as a home visitor.
When you use strategies that promote safety, trust, and healing for families while strengthening your own reflective practice, you can improve lifelong outcomes for children and support your own well-being in this important work. In this course, you will learn how early relational health, also known as infant mental health, shapes development and how trauma-informed practices help families and home visitors feel safe, seen, and supported.
Safe, Seen and Supported will strengthen your confidence and capacity to support early relationships, parenting strengths, and your own well-being in this work.
This self-paced online course gives you practical, relationship-based strategies to strengthen caregiving connections, understand infant and toddler behavior, and respond to the effects of stress and trauma with confidence.
This is a self-paced online course!
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When Home Visiting Feels Hard
Expand your capacity to address challenging moments during home visits so you can stay grounded and connected with families!
Family crises are common challenges in home visiting, for the family and the home visitor. With the right skills, you can use a strengths-based approach that builds trust and helps families navigate the sometimes-difficult aspects of parenting and family life. That is why recognizing different types of family crises, your own responses to them, and developing effective strategies for responding is essential to effective home visits.
When Home Visiting Feels Hard will help you navigate challenges that come up during your home visits.
This self-paced online course normalizes challenges during home visits and improves your understanding of family crises. You will learn different strategies for responding to family challenges and for recognizing and managing your own emotional reactions to your work.
Heart of Home Visiting Online Course Learning Objectives and Crosswalk
(Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals: IAFSP and Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Competency Areas)
Healthy Boundaries in Home Visiting
Identify the difference between personal and professional boundaries in early childhood home visiting and describe how boundaries shape relationships with families.
Recognize and respond to signs of compassion fatigue and burnout using reflective practices and boundary-setting strategies that support personal well-being.
Respect and navigate differences in boundary expectations between home visitors and families while maintaining program integrity and honoring family autonomy.
Communicate boundaries clearly and empathetically, balancing warmth and professionalism to foster trust and safety.
Planning with Parents
Define and apply the six roles of a home visitor—Friend, Cheerleader, Facilitator, Coach, Teacher, and Expert and demonstrate how to shift flexibly among them to support family engagement and child development.
Collaborate with families to co-create SMART-R goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound, and Reflective, ensuring goals align with family priorities and promote shared ownership.
Implement a structured, family-led planning process that includes co-setting the visit agenda, integrating family-identified goals, and selecting meaningful activities and routines.
Navigate transitions and changes in family dynamics or staffing by maintaining continuity, honoring relationships, and adapting plans to support stability and trust.
See the Good
Understand and apply strengths-based principles in home visiting, shifting from a deficit-focused mindset to one that recognizes, values, and builds on family strengths to enhance collaboration and empowerment.
Use compassionate, inclusive, and asset-focused communication that reinforces dignity, deepens connection, and uncovers strengths families may not yet see in themselves.
Identify and reinforce parenting strengths through observation and feedback, using tools such as the PICCOLO checklist to provide specific, culturally responsive feedback linked to child development outcomes.
Engage in reflective practice to support professional growth and family relationships, exploring personal assumptions, using guiding questions (e.g., “Is it true? Is it helpful? Is it kind?”) and understanding how Reflective Supervision/Consultation (RSC) fosters emotional resilience.
Safe, Seen, and Supported
Describe how early relationships support early relational health, including brain development, emotional regulation, attachment, and a child’s sense of safety and connection.
Interpret infant and toddler behavior as communication within developmental, relational, cultural, and environmental contexts.
Apply trauma-informed, relationship-based strategies that promote safety, predictability, co-regulation, and caregiver strengths.
Engage in reflective and parallel-process practices to support professional well-being and sustainable relationship-based work.
When Home Visiting Feels Hard
Recognize challenging visits as a normal part of home visiting and approach hard moments with reflection rather than judgment.
Notice and manage your own reactions during difficult visits, including urges to fix, rescue, or act quickly.
Use grounding, reflective listening, and strengths‑based responses to support safety, connection, and parent voice.
Match responses to the type of challenge or crisis, staying within role while supporting families effectively.
Repair moments when visits feel off track, strengthening trust through humility, clarity, and reconnection.
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Building Relationships with Families • Being Responsive to Family Strengths • Infant Mental Health • Planning Home Visits with Parents • Using Materials in the Home & Daily Routines on Home Visits • Using HoVRS to Coach Home Visitors • AND SO MUCH MORE!