Vanderbilt Home Visit Script

Practitioners work in partnership with parent’s families, as they are the child’s first and most enduring carers and educators

CYP 3.1 – 3.4 Explain how different types of interventions can promote positive outcomes for children and young people where development is not following the expected pattern.

A/c 1.2 The benefit of using a child centred model of assessment and planning is that you concentrate on the person and their specific and individual set of needs and circumstances. A child centred model promotes the rights of the child and allows them to communicate and say what they want for themselves. When children are moved to make the correct choice and take a lead using this type of assessment they tend to succeed as they develop their needs. Children and young people’s needs can be identified through observation and the sharing of information between those that are involved in the care of the young people or children. The parents and class teachers are the best places to identify individual needs because the young people spend more time at school and home than they do anywhere else. School/ home visits, review meetings, hospital consultations are some of the

Ability to listen effectively so that views of the children and their parents /carers effect appropriate involvement in care planning

When considering a child’s needs and routines in your setting, it is important that we communicate with the parents and find out a little about the home setting so we can carry it on when they come into our care, the more we talk to the parents the more we can help the child’s emotional needs and routines.

The data gathered may likewise assist the parents to create a learning environment and to motivate their child to the learning/interest that they have not achieved.

Make sure that their conversation is within confidential space meaning that only you the practitioner with the child and the parent.

The opportunity for children and young people to develop in a loving caring environment is vital to their development. It is important that professional practitioners know the expected aspects and rate of development to ensure that individuals in their care are given the best opportunity to thrive. The following tasks will help you to understand the support that each child or young person may need.

When we look at the role of a teacher, trainer, assessor or tutor we find that there

4.3 You can sit down as a group called together to discuss the needs making sure the individual being discussed is there with you and able to be actively involved. Let them tell you their views first and make sure someone is writing it down. If things are done in the correct manor the individual will be happier as they have been able to have input in the care that they receive thus decreasing any problems.

All professionals working with children have a responsibility to work with honesty, to work with having strong moral principles and to have a high standard in partnership with others. You need to respect the views and opinions of others when working in partnership with them, there is bound to be a range of different opinions. This can be difficult to work with. Nevertheless, regardless of whether or not you agree with the views that other have put forward, it is imperative that you respect their views and opinions.

More importantly, it involves the parents or care givers and seeks to improve family dynamics. Parental involvement is important to the efficacy of home visiting. It helps to empower the family, increase parental competence and confidence, reduce behavioral problems through the person-in-environment approach of problem solving and enhancing well-being. The amount and quality of family engagement in home visiting facilitates the establishment of a helping relationship between parents or caregivers and the home visitor (Brand, Jungman, Sierau, 2012). Also, The California Evidence Based Clearinghouse on Child Welfare, gave SafeCare a scientific rating of two and a high rating on child welfare system relevance scale; meaning, demonstrates high levels of promising effectiveness through research evidence and is commonly used to meet the needs of youth and families involved with child welfare services (Lutzker, 2013).

helps all the children during the session. Once the teacher has gone through the learning objective

Effective practice will improve the communication between the practitioner and the children, as well as their parents/carers making the relationships stronger between them. It helps the practitioner to be able to give each child the right support needed. The practitioner is able to share any relevant information between other professionals (who are on the need to know basis) and the children’s

The parents remain in charge of and responsible for their family as the primary caregivers, nurturers, and educators. The content of services is adapted over time on the basis of the needs and preferences of family members. Services are intensive: Families typically are seen between 6 and 10 hours per week, and services are time-limited, usually 1-4 months. One of the most popular models of IFPS, The Homebuilders Program was a crisis-oriented, short-term, home-based, intensive treatment program for families intended to prevent out-of-home placement (Kinney et al., 1977). Homebuilder was built on the belief that in most cases the best place for a child to grow up with their natural families. The families learn new behaviors in their own environment