Learning opportunities for family support professionals

Traditional in-person learning may be on-hold for now. The Massachusetts Home Visiting Initiative has collected this selection of virtual courses, trainings and webinar series for family support professionals, providing opportunities to refresh their skills and broaden their knowledge.

Learning opportunities

• Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Webinar archives, Supporting Families and Communities through the Pandemic.
• Center for the Developing Child, Harvard U., COVID-19 Resources: Guides, Activities, Infographics, E-books and podcasts; some in multiple Languages.
• Children's Safety Network: Webinar archives. You may view either the PowerPoint presentations as PDFs or you may watch the full recording by clicking "audio presentation."
• Children’s Trust: Online Resources For Family Support Professionals
• ECLKC: Head Start Heals Campaign focuses on healing and addresses topics such as resilience, recovery, how to incorporate mental health consultation effectively, how to address challenging behaviors, and ways to have difficult conversations with families.
• HRSA: The MCH Navigator is a centralized portal for pursuing continuous learning in maternal and child health (MCH) and is designed to help emerging and established MCH professionals and students map professional growth pathways.
• MDPH/Children and Youth with Special Health Needs: DCYSHN’s webinar “Preparing for Caring During COVID-19”
• NAEYC: Virtual Institute, Beginning June 1. Free. Six weeks of newly recorded presentations to support your professional development. The Virtual Institute is open to anyone who is interested in some of the latest research and best practices in early childhood education.
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Strengthening family resilience and coping with traumatic stress webinars: Family Resilience, Family Resilience and Traumatic Stress: A Guide for Mental Health Providers, Child Trauma, Race, and Urban Identity, Complex Trauma: In Urban African American Children, Youth, and Families, Building Resiliency: Supporting Youth Affected by Trauma and Community Violence
• New England Public Health Training Center, a wide range of training programs and services that strengthen the public health workforce. New Offerings: Systems Thinking, Story Telling for Public Health, and Holding Effective Meetings.
• SAMHSA: Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, podcasts and webinars
• Start Early, trainings designed specifically with the needs of home visitors and supervisors in mind. Developed by home visitors for home visitors. Applicable across all national models.
• The Institute for Family Support Professionals: Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting, multiple recorded webinars, including: Home Visiting Models and COVID 19 Response, Virtual Visit Readiness, Engaging Families in Virtual Visits: A Protective Factors' Approach, Screening in Virtual Visits, Using ASQ-3 in a Virtual Environment
• U of CA, Berkley: The Science of Happiness. The first MOOC to teach positive psychology. Learn science-based principles and practices for a happy, meaningful life.