General Information

 Wrap-Around Training: Who’s Invited?

Delaware Home Visitors, Health Ambassadors, and Help Me Grow Call Center Staff

This website offers you information about professional development opportunities for Delaware’s

  • Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (DMIEC-HV) Programs:
    • Early Head Start
    • Healthy Families America (programmatically known as Smart Start)
    • Nurse-Family Partnership
    • Parents as Teachers
  • Health Ambassadors/Promotoras who serve Home Visiting Programs
  • Help me Grow Call Center Staff

 Wrap-Around Training: What is it?

What’s wrap-around training? It’s training that supplements the core training provided to staff on the implementation of a particular program model. The thinking is that there are some general topics that staff in each home visiting and health ambassador programs will find useful and it will be more efficient to deliver training sessions on those topics to everyone at one time. The added bonus – you get to meet and learn from other professionals who are doing the same kind of work you are! Together you can reflect on your work and support each other as you further your expertise.

Why Wrap-Around Training?

The purpose of the wrap-around training and technical assistance described here is to assure that staff in all of Delaware’s home visiting/health ambassador programs are trained to provide effective, high quality services for families and children to reach the home visiting benchmarks of:

  • reduced child injury, abuse, and neglect
  • reduced domestic violence rates
  • improved maternal and childhood health and development
  • increased school readiness

Sponsored by:

  • Delaware’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
  • Delaware Health and Social Services
  • Division of Public Health
  • Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  • Funded by Affordable Care Act

TRAINING FOR HOME VISITORS, HEALTH AMBASSADORS AND HELP ME GROW CALL CENTER STAFF 

The training sessions offered here are designed to help you develop the competencies you need to serve young children and their families well. You can find a complete list of these competencies at this link:

Summary of Home Visitor Wrap Around Competencies – Aug 2011

Each year, a needs assessment is conducted to determine which training topics/competencies are priorities for the next round of training.

 2012-13 TRAINING SESSIONS

NOTICE:  Change in location information for May 22, 2013 session

Location Change – Dover Home Visitor Training – May 22, 2013

2012-13 HV Wrap-Around Training Schedule

NOTE about registering for training sessions:  Please register for 2012-13 Wrap-Around Training Sessions in April, May and June,2013 by emailing janetumble@pcadelaware.org .    On-line registration is not yet available.

 ON-LINE TRAINING

Watch this site for on-line training sessions coming soon!

FOR SUPERVISORS 

PD2PRACTICE – REINFORCE THE TRAINING YOUR STAFF RECEIVES

No matter how excellent the instruction is, it’s rare to find people who consistently apply on-the-job what they learned in training. Organizations spend lots of resources on training programs, expecting to achieve lasting, measurable improvements in performance and positive impacts on program results – a goal that is hard to achieve.

The issue is not with trainers or their programs, but with the fact that learning is an on-going process, not an event. You can increase the odds that training will result in improved performance by taking time to reinforce what your staff learned in training.

Here is a brief summary of the key points of each training session and a few ideas on how you might reinforce this information with your staff.

Developmental Milestones – Wrap-Around Training Session PD2Practice – Developmental Milestones

PD2Practice – Children with Special Needs Part I

PD2Practice – Children with Special Needs Part II

PD2Practice – Children’s Behavioral Health – Part I

 

REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION NETWORKING MEETINGS

You’re busy supporting everyone else . . . look out for yourself, too!

We’re offering 4 networking sessions in 2012-13 especially for supervisors. Each session will focus on a discussion topic of interest to supervisors as well as time for supervisors to learn from and support each other in the practice of Reflective Supervision. Bring your supervisory challenges . . . get some help from your colleagues!

Follow this link for dates, times, and locations of Reflective Supervision Networking Meetings:

Reflective Supervision Networking Meeting – Save the date – June 4, 2013

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Feeling stuck, not sure how to address a problem you’re facing in your role as home visitor or health ambassador or supervisor? We all feel like that at one point or another. At those times it might be nice to have someone to . . .

  • answer a question
  • steer you to helpful resources
  • connect you with a peer who’s working on the same problem. . .

Good news! This kind of help is available, one-on-one or in small groups.

Email JanetUmble@pcadelaware.org to set up a phone conference or face-to-face meeting.

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