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 Coalition for Family Home Visiting offers a directory featuring more than 70 programs/organizations that offer home visiting throughout the state of Minnesota. This is not an exhaustive list but rather a hub of all things home visiting services.

The 2024 Family Home Visiting Directory

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.

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.

Download MCFHV Immigration Toolkit

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.

2024 Advocacy Tool Kit

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.

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.

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.

Fatherhood Orientation & Resources Guide

BECC Centering Fathers MCFHV Quarterly Meeting

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.

Centering Fathers Summary

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.

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.