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This resource provides tips for home visitors about how to talk with families about substance use during pregnancy.

Learn why promoting oral health during home visits is important and find tips Head Start staff can use to promote oral health during home visits.

Take a look at the research on home visiting programs. Find out how it shows home visiting is a complex endeavor with varying degrees of positive outcomes.

Technology is always growing and changing. Learn how home-based programs continue to establish policies for how to respond to the variety of technology.

Many programs may face low family attendance at group socializations for a variety of reasons. Find out ways programs can meet this challenge and address low family attendance.

Learn ways supervisors can make sure home visitors have adequate resources to conduct socializations.

Find ways learning experiences can build home visitors’ knowledge and skills, supporting reflection, self-awareness, and empathy and regulating intense feelings arising from working with families.

Home visits are the main vehicle to deliver comprehensive services to young children and families. Explore how twice-monthly group socializations are also an important and required part of home-based services.

Find out how programs can offer comprehensive services for children and families, and how these services can enhance children's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development.

Learn more about home-based staff qualifications and how programs ensure that each staff member, consultant, and contractor has the qualifications and competencies to provide high-quality services.