Early childhood home visiting programme: factors contributing to success

Abstract

Components contributing to the success of early childhood home visiting programmes include a strength-based philosophy, voluntary enrollment of parents, regularly scheduled home visits, a curriculum to structure the home visitor's interventions, and careful attention to the selection, training, and supervision of home visitors.

The Effects of a Healthy Families Home Visitation Program on Rapid and Teen Repeat Births

“…Furthermore, FSWs responded to parental resistance with encouragement and support for their self-efficacy. Other evidence based features of the program included a strength-based philosophy, voluntary enrollment, regularly scheduled home visits, and the use of tested curricula to structure home visits (Heaman et al 2006).…”

Short-Term Home Visiting for Parents

“…Perry (2001) interviewed a small group of women with differing levels of needs participating in home-visiting services and concluded that it may be beneficial to offer varying levels of service or a menu of services to best meet Short-Term Home Visiting 181 individual needs. Similarly, a qualitative study by Heaman, Chalmers, Woodgate, and Brown (2006) indicated that participants believed programmatic factors that were ''voluntary, flexible, on-going, focused on early intervention'' and strengths based to be most important (p. 297). On a more direct services level, Perry (2001) found that women had better participation and motivation for change when practitioners showed authentic interest in the women and their children.…”

The tradition of home nurse visiting: 40 years strong in JAN

“…Thus the growth, at least in part, of visiting nurse programmes for poor and otherwise disadvantaged families such as that described by Heaman et al . () where factors that contribute to the success of such programmes are detailed. Perhaps all families, regardless of income or other circumstances could benefit from such programmes.…”