Mobile Tools for Home Visitors
Explore free mobile tools for home visitors from the Office of Head Start, including ELOF@HOME and Text4HomeVisitors. Discover effective practices and get text messages focusing on home-based topics and resources.
Home Visiting
This collection explores the various aspects of home visiting, emphasizing roles, strategies, and resources for home visitors to support families. Topics include emotional literacy, fostering relationships, cognitive and emotional self-regulation, and understanding children's communication through behavior. Learn about creating home learning environments, promoting play-based learning, and transition support.
Home Visitor’s Online Handbook
Explore this handbook to find research on home-based programs, strategies for best practices, video examples, and resources, along with wisdom from home visitors across the country.
Using Materials Found in the Home in Head Start Home-Based Programs
In this tip sheet, learn how to help parents use their home as their child’s learning environment. Explore ways to choose materials found in the home to support children’s development and learning.
Socializations and Field Trips in Head Start Home-Based Programs
Explore this tip sheet to find information and strategies for offering field trips as part of group socialization experiences.
Socialization Environments in Head Start Home-Based Programs
Use this tip sheet to learn ways to set up appropriate group socialization environments for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families.
Serving Families with Multiple Children in the Home-Based Option
In this tip sheet, find strategies for providing services to children and families, including families with more than one enrolled child.
Including Grandparents in Home-Based Activities
Explore this tip sheet to learn strategies to consider for including grandparents in home visits and socializations.
Head Start Tip Sheets for Grantee Planning
Use these tip sheets to find ways to support grantee planning. Explore what to consider when implementing systems, policies, and practices around topics from developmental screening to home-based programs and more.
Learning at Home
Children’s learning begins at home. Parents and family members can create nurturing, responsive, and engaging spaces for young learners. Find out how to help families support their child’s learning at home.
Brenda Jones Harden: Supporting Intentional Interactions in Home Visiting
Hear from Brenda Jones Harden as she takes a look at how the ELOF relates to the work that home visitors do with parents, families, and their children.