Start Early Washington’s peer connections for home visitors offer peer-to-peer collaboration to those who directly support families.
Peer connections offer a collaborative environment for home visitors to build community with peers from the field and enhance their practice, fostering support, guidance and valuable relationship-building opportunities. Facilitated by two former home visitors, these engaging sessions provide an empathetic space where professionals can openly share and learn from their lived experiences.
Audience: Home Visitor Peer Connections are intended for anyone providing direct services to children and families in Washington state to come together to share experiences, strategies, and make connections to other professionals in the home visiting field.
Peer connections are held for one hour. During this time there will be a focus on the Washington state Home Visiting Core Competencies. Competencies are observable actions that require a combination of knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary to perform a major task or function in the work setting. Each session will focus on one competency area to support the enhancement of skills, knowledge, and attributes of home visiting work. For more information on specific dates and times, please click the registration link below.
Dates and times are subject to change. Peer Connections are open to all participants supporting families in Washington state.
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