Diverse group of professional staff at a training session Milwaukee County UW Extension provides low-cost, comprehensive training for numerous health, social service, and community-based family and youth serving organizations year round. Training is made available to the Empowering Families of Milwaukee Home Visitation program and all other Milwaukee County home visitation programs.

What is Home Visitation?

Home Visitation is defined as a program that includes the visitation of parents and children in their home by trained personnel (such as nurses, social workers, and family support workers) who convey information, support and resources. In early childhood programs, visits are generally initiated during pregnancy, or soon after birth, and can continue through the critical first years of a child's life. The goal of these Home Visitation programs is to promote parent and child interaction, healthy child development, positive parenting skills, and decrease child abuse and neglect amongst low-income families.

UW-Extension trains over 200 Home Visitors and approximately 16 Home Visitation Supervisors per year through a program funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Familiy Services. The newly acquired skills gained by one Home Visitor reaches over 90 diverse low-income families per year. Over 80 organizations have been represented at our training sessions over the last 2 years.

Besides early childhood home visitation programs, Milwaukee County also benefits from the services of other home visitation programs. These include:

Birth-to-Three
Fatherhood Support
Full Family Support
Prenatal Care
School Readiness
Supervised Visitation
Teen Parent Support

For more information, read one of our reports:

Family Living Programs Impact Report: Effective Home Visitors Empower Families of Milwaukee dated November 2008 ( 2 pages, 127 KB). This report provides an up-to-date description of the program and its impact.

Home Visiting Training and Technical Assistance Brief dated April 2008 ( 3 pages,172 KB). This document includes a brief history, description of programs, outcomes and evaluation results.

Training Opportunities

Extension provides Home Visitation sites with the following training opportunities.

Core Training

Parents as Teachers Born to Learn Institute
Supervision and Related Staff Orientation
Home Visitation Foundations
Great Beginnings Start Before Birth

Tools

Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME)
Ages and Stages Questionnaire

Optional Continuing Education Workshops
Some examples of workshops that can be offered:

Poverty Education
Emotional Intelligence
Brain Development
Temperament
Issues in Working with Teen Parents
Diversity Training

Check our Upcoming Events page for a list of meetings and training opportunities.

Home Visitor Training

What is Home Visitation?

Training Opportunities

Helpful Resources for Support Workers and Parents

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