Introduction to NEAR@Home: Trauma and Hope Informed Home Visiting

Learn more about the core concepts of NEAR@Home, a resource for home visitors to respectfully and effectively address adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with families, and what a NEAR home visit looks like in practice.

The following two modules provide a brief overview of NEAR@Home core concepts and what a NEAR home visit looks like in practice.

NEAR@Home is a resource for home visitors to respectfully and effectively address adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with families. In addition to our free and easily accessible NEAR@Home Toolkit, we have developed a Facilitated Learning process through which trained facilitators guide home visitors and supervisors through the process of implementing a NEAR home visit.

Learn more about the NEAR@Home Facilitated Learning program and how it can support you and your home visiting program by watching the two videos below (Module #1 and Module #2).

Interested in bringing the NEAR@Home Facilitated Learning program to your community and developing your own team of NEAR@Home-trained facilitators? Please reach out to us at ProfessionalDevelopment@StartEarly.org.

Introduction to NEAR@Home: Trauma and Hope Informed Home Visiting Module 1

Rhonda Crooker, a NEAR@Home Facilitator, shares why and how NEAR@Home was created and explores some of the core concepts that guide this work including: our social justice perspective, a life course view of trauma and adversity, and how to ensure safety for the home visitor and the family.

Introduction to NEAR@Home: Trauma and Hope Informed Home Visiting Module 2

Rhonda Crooker, a NEAR@Home Facilitator, shares the process of becoming a trauma and hope informed home visitor and the steps in doing a NEAR home visit.

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