Introducing the Updated Life Skills Progression (LSP)

How you can identify the needs of families, closely monitor improvements, and demonstrate your home visiting program's effectiveness? Use the updated Life Skills Progression, Second Edition, (LSP)—the most efficient, reliable way to evaluate a parent’s life skills: the abilities, behaviors, and attitudes they need to support a healthy and satisfying family life.

Tackling the Tough Stuff: A Home Visitor’s Guide to Supporting Families at Risk, Second Edition

Read this excerpt from Tackling the Tough Stuff.

Coaching in Home Visiting: Supporting Better Outcomes for Professionals and Families

Read this excerpt from Coaching in Home Visiting.

Life Skills Progression™: An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use With Families at Risk, Second Edition

Read this excerpt from Life Skills Progression, Second Edition.

8 Ways Home Visitors Can Facilitate Family Empowerment

Adapted from Ruth Cook's and Shirley Sparks' new book, The Art and Practice of Home Visiting, Second Edition, here are eight ways to create a respectful relationship with families that will lead to facilitation of family empowerment.

6 Things to Do At the Beginning of Every Home Visit

How can you start your next home visit on a positive note and help forge a strong connection with parents and caregivers? Click below to see six essentials for early interventionists to keep in mind at the beginning of each home visit.

Using PICCOLO and HOVRS with Virtual Home Visits

Continuing to help parents use their strengths to support children’s development remains critical during difficult times. The home visiting tools PICCOLO and HOVRS can be adapted to virtual home visiting in various ways. Join us for a discussion on how to complete observations using online meetings or self-recordings.

Screening and assessment in early childhood settings

There can be some confusion about the difference between screening and assessment in early childhood settings.

How to work with families

Read this chapter excerpt for guidance with supporting families through the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce process, insight into universal parenting practices, and supports for designing individualized intervention for challenging behavior within the family context.

Improving home visiting practice with the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP)

For professionals serving families of children from birth–3, learn how to identify the family’s needs, monitor improvements, and demonstrate your program’s effectiveness with the LSP.