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Download full textZeger, Jordana D., Ed. – 1984
The handbook describes the Home Start Training Center's approach to serving Head Start families. Much of the program is focused on the Portage Project and on early intervention efforts for preschoolers. The first of the major parts of the handbook presents an overview of the approach, reviewing the philosophy of parent-focused home-based…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Home Programs, Home Visits, Parent Education
Baker, Coleman; Squires, Jim; Whiteley, K. C. – 1999
Home visiting is a way of providing services to children and families. Based on the experiences of home visitors in Vermont, this booklet discusses promising home visiting practices. Following a preface and introduction, the book's sections are: (1) "The Home Visiting Relationship"; (2) "The Home Visit: Essential Components";…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Home Programs, Home Visits, Integrated Services
Boyd, Richard D., Ed.; Herwig, Julia, Ed. – 1980
The manual is intended to help home visitors, teachers, handicapped coordinators, parents, and others who work with young handicapped children in home based programs and to supplement training provided by the Home Start Training Centers. The manual contains 10 author contributed chapters. An introductory chapter by R. Boyd briefly considers…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities, Home Programs, Home Visits
Petersen, Evelyn – Children and Families, 1999
Emphasizes the importance of home visits and provides tips on making Head Start program home visits rewarding for parents and children. Lists 11 behaviors of effective home visitors, and emphasizes the importance of empowering parents and creating adequate documentary materials concerning the home visit. (SD)
Descriptors: Home Programs, Home Visits, Parent Participation, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Peer reviewedBryant, Donna; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
This paper addresses several major ethical issues faced by early intervention home visitors in their helping relationships with clients: maintaining a client focus, client independence, honesty, confidentiality, limits of intervention, and termination. Examples of home visiting dilemmas from two early intervention programs illustrate the issues. A…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Codes of Ethics, Early Intervention, Ethics
Heffron, Mary Claire; Jonnson, Jerry C. – 1981
Guidelines based on Project Head Start performance standards are offered for persons interested in starting and operating a home-based child development program providing individualized family services through home visits. Opening sections of the manual sensitize prospective service providers to problems and positive outcomes of home-based…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Guidelines, Home Programs, Home Visits
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1994
Developed to provide assistance in the building of an effective home-based program for Head Start children and their families, this handbook may serve as a blueprint for parent-focused home visits that assist the child and family to meet their special needs. Chapter one focuses on the home visitation model for providing services to families and…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Family Involvement, Family Programs, Home Programs
Peer reviewedDodd, Elizabeth L.; Brock, Dana R. – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1994
Presents guidelines and ideas for school-home learning activities that can be used by teachers and administrators who work with at-risk children and their families to build partnerships between the home and school. Recommends that teachers and administrators listen to families, develop home-learning activities, share activities with families, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family School Relationship, High Risk Students, Home Programs
Research Assessment Management, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1993
The Head Start home-based supervisor provides guidance, support, direction, and continuing staff development opportunities while attempting to maintain and improve quality of services to Head Start children and families. This guide is designed to help the home-based supervisor in carrying out responsibilities while supporting the home visitor, who…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Burnout, Coping, Home Programs
Klass, Carol S. – 1996
Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this handbook for home visitors provides functional, field test guidance techniques for working with parents and children from birth to 5 years. The guide offers techniques to enhance children's development in conjunction with educating and supporting families. Firsthand account of home visits…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Family Programs, Home Programs
Peer reviewedWayman, Karen I.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
This article discusses the family systems framework and its implications for understanding families with developmentally disabled infants/toddlers from diverse cultures. It presents guidelines to assist home visitors in becoming sensitive to culture's effects on family values, beliefs, and practices, and describes the phases of a home visit and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Disabilities, Early Intervention
Segal, Marilyn; Franco, Pat – 1995
This paper describes a culturally competent inservice training program for home visit personnel. The program is designed to help home visit personnel become more aware of their own beliefs and values, and develop an appreciation and respect for others' differences. The program is divided into three sections. Each section offers various activities…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Bias, Child Rearing, Cultural Activities
Wolfe, Barbara, Ed.; Herwig, Julia, Ed. – 1986
Developed to help the home visitor build an effective home-based program for Head Start children and their families, this handbook is intended to serve as a blueprint for parent-focused home visits that assist the child and family to meet their full potential. The first chapter lays a foundation for the program that includes a home-based…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Evaluation Criteria, Family Counseling, Family Environment
Trans-Management Systems, Inc. – 1993
This guide provides ideas and procedures to help agencies in providing services to children and families through the home-based program option of Head Start. It is designed to assist program administrators who are beginning Head Start Home-Based programs for the first time as well as those seeking to strengthen existing programs. The chapters are:…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Development, Community Needs, Home Instruction
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1985
This guide for operating the Head Start home-based program option is based on experience gathered in the initial Home Start program and in the decade spanning 1974 through 1984. Its purpose is to offer the tested ideas and procedures gained in those years to organizations wanting to provide home-based child/family development services. The Guide…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Family Programs
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