Resources
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Welcome to the MCFHV Resource Hub - a growing collection of professional development tools, trainings, and research to support home visitors across Minnesota.
Here you’ll find materials designed for practitioners, families, partners, advocates and policymakers all grounded in the shared commitment to ensuring every pregnant person, infant, and young family has access to high quality support.
We invite you to explore, learn, and use these resources to strengthen the work in your community and across our state.​
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Trainings, Tools & Community
The Minnesota Coalition for Family Home Visiting offers free training and resources developed with and for Minnesota home visitors. It is among the Coalition’s top priorities to support and build a strong infrastructure to support quality targeted home visiting programs and services.
Minnesota Family Home Visiting Statewide Directory
The Minnesota Home Visiting Directory is prepared by the Minnesota Coalition for Family Home Visiting and features various local public health, tribal health, nonprofit, early childhood family education, early head start, and community-based home visiting programs and organizations across the state of Minnesota.
This is not an exhaustive list but a tool to support families and their home visitors locate and contact home visiting services, no matter where they live in Minnesota. This partnership is intended to help home visitors to make warm handoffs to families as they move across county lines and or graduate programs - search for services by county or program type.
If you notice an error, need to update to an existing entry, or if you would like your organization/ program included in the next version of the Directory, please submit your information here.
If you would like to add your home visiting program to the directory, or if you would like to update your entry, please fill out this form!
​Home Visiting Core Competencies
The Home Visiting Core Competencies were drafted by the Practice Matters Workgroup, a subcommittee of the Minnesota Coalition for Family Home Visiting for non-model home visiting programs. The purpose of the Core Competencies is to identify the theoretical underpinnings and demonstrated abilities of effective home visiting practice. The Core Competencies are not intended to be an exhaustive inventory of all underpinnings and abilities but rather an attempt to identify the essential foundation to assuring effective home visiting services.
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The Family Home Visiting Professional Development Framework was developed by the Minnesota Department of Health and lays out a framework for professional development in the family home visiting field. The Core Competencies were designed using this professional development framework and drive our work in developing training for family home visitors in Minnesota.
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The Goals of the Core Competencies are to:
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Build and Strengthen Relationships with Families, Plan and Conduct Effective Home Visits
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Strengthen Parent Child Relationships, Positive Parenting, Early Learning & School Readiness
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Promote Healthy Family Functioning, Self-Sufficiency, Family Health & Safety
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Develop Strong Home Visiting Programs: Leadership & Supervision
Families, Providers, & Advocates of Immigrant Communities
This list of toolkits, handouts, and resources are intended help home visitors, families and advocates of immigrants and children in mixed status families know their rights, how to support the mental health of their children, and what to do when interacting with Immigration & Customs Enforcement. These resources are not meant to serve as legal advice, but to help families, home visitors, and advocates support the healthy growth and development of all children, regardless of residency status.
Family Home Visitor Advocacy Tool Kit
The 2024 Advocacy Toolkit helps home visitors and families reach out to elected officials to share information about home visiting programs and their benefits. Legislators appreciate meeting members of their community and knowing who they can go to with questions or concerns during the legislative session, or when making policy decisions.
If you are interested in meeting with an elected official and would feel more confident with some extra support, please contact Laura LaCroix-Dalluhn or Cati Gómez.
Cultural Responsiveness Improvement Tool
The Family and Community Engagement Tools (FaCET) survey process for home visiting promotes and measures family engagement with questions that reflect the values families care most about.
This tool was developed by Wilder Research and Betty Emarita of Development & Training, Inc. This survey process consists of a parent survey, a staff survey, and a facilitated conversation between parents and staff about the survey results. FaCET provides unique information not available in other assessments that can help you improve programs, policies, and practices - especially for low-income families and families of color.
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Engage families authentically.
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Show what families most appreciate and where improvements can be targeted.
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Help you understand and better use the strengths of your home visiting team.
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Document what you are already doing well
Tuesday Topics
Sign up for the Minnesota Department of Health Family Home Visiting e-Bulletin to receive weekly updates on family home visiting in Minnesota!
Help Me Connect
Help Me Connect is an interagency collaboration between Minnesota's Departments of Education, Health and Human Services to connect expectant families, families with young children, and those working with families, to services in their local communities that support healthy child development and family well-being. Help Me Connect’s mission is to connect families with resources that support the diverse needs of children and families across the state of Minnesota, especially those experiencing racial, economic, and geographic disparities.
Help Me Connect includes resources and services that promote healthy prenatal and early childhood development, education, safety and well-being of children and families. It includes non-profits, for-profits (licensed by the state of Minnesota) and government agencies.
Birth Equity Community Council - Centering Fathers
Fatherhood Orientation & Resources Guide
MCFHV is pleased to highlight and host the Fatherhood Orientation & Resources Guide, which focuses on center fathers to improve maternal and child health outcomes for families and engaging them in family home visiting. The Birth Equity Community Council (BECC), through Saint Paul Ramsey County Public Health, developed this resource guide to provide fathers critical information to help them engage during pregnancy and/or after birth.
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This Fatherhood Orientation & Resources Guide is the vision of a group of dedicated fathers and community advocates, who want fathers to know they are not alone as they prepare for fatherhood. Fatherhood, and the presence of fathers, is critical to the success of the next generation. The Father's role and its impact are critical. This guide is designed to help Father insist and persist in making sure they are involved whenever possible. ​​​​​
Thomas Chapman introduces the Birth Equity Community Council (BECC), explaining its mission to establish family and birthing interventions for healthy and equitable outcomes, particularly focusing on reducing infant mortality in black and brown communities. BECC's four action teams are Celebrations, Training, Policy, and Centering Fathers.
MCFHV Video Training Series
View the entire archive of recorded trainings on the Minnesota Coalition for Family Home Visiting YouTube page. Subscribe to the MCFHV YouTube channel here.
MDH Training & Professional Development
The National Home Visiting Coalition
The Home Visiting Coalition is a national group of diverse organizations committed to the well-being of children, working to promote continued federal support of home visiting to strengthen families in communities across the country. The Home Visiting Coalition works with Congress to support and fund the vital work of evidence-based Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting programs (MIECHV) on the federal level.