Life Skills Progression™

An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use With Families at Risk, Second Edition

Overview

A must for home visiting programs, the updated second edition of the LSP is the most efficient, reliable way to evaluate a parent’s life skills: the abilities, behaviors, and attitudes they need to achieve a healthy and satisfying family life. Easy to complete in about 10 minutes, the LSP will help your program establish baseline and ongoing assessment profiles of clients, identify strengths and needs, plan interventions, and demonstrate the effectiveness of your practices through monitoring of outcomes.

Contains Companion Materials

How It Works

Home visitors use the LSP to evaluate a variety of important life skills. An experienced professional records information on 43 items in eight important domains:

• Relationships with Family and Friends
• Relationships with Children
• Relationships with Supportive Resources
• Education and Employment
• Health and Medical Care
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse
• Basic Essentials
• Infant/Toddler Development

Home visitors rate each competency from 1 to 5 on a simple-to-complete form, where they can also record important case data in the notes section. The LSP is used only to track the progress of children and parents and can be repeated every six months until the child is 5.

What’s New

• New chapter on using the LSP to promote maternal health literacy
• Guidance on completing the LSP during virtual home visits
• LSP Instrument and downloads now provided as fillable PDFs
• Updated research, citations, and information throughout
• Scoring descriptions updated for clarity
• Ancillary materials now provided as convenient downloads

Reviews

Angela Rau, Home Visiting Consultant and Coach "This engaging second edition, grounded in current research and best practices, is a must-have..."

Joanne Martin, Founding Director, The MOM Project "I wish every home visiting program would be using the LSP scale!"

Dr. Jeremy Christopher Kohomban, The Children’s Village "An essential resource for family engagement and collaborative planning with families."

Authors

Linda Wollesen M.A., RN, LMFT, Brad Richardson Ph.D.
Invited Contributor: Sandra Smith Ph.D. MPH

Related Resources

• Introducing the Updated Life Skills Progression Webinar
• Top 5 Reasons Why Your Home Visiting Program Needs the Updated LSP
• Life Skills Progression Sample Form
• Alignment with Early Childhood Products

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