What Do Families & Home Visitors Need? 

This session will explore the opportunities and challenges of home visiting as the primary vehicle for a range of intervention models that aim to foster parenting skills, child development, and quality of the mother-child relationship. Starting from the premise that home visiting is a form of infant mental health practice, the speaker will use her experiences as home visitor, treatment developer, clinical supervisor, and program director to identify obstacles to effectiveness and propose training strategies and content domains that enhance home visitors’ professional development, promote job satisfaction, and are conducive to better child and parent outcomes. This session is ideal for program administrators, policy makers, and home visiting advocates committed to creating the conditions home visitors need to meet the developmental and mental health needs of young children and their families.