BC Council for Families

Our core training is the Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting program, which enables participants to put state of the art information and theory into daily practice for parents and children.

This engaging, interactive training program is packed with information, discussion, and activities specifically designed to ensure home visitors will emerge with the knowledge and practical skills to implement successful services for families.

The program is strengths-based, recognizing and utilizing parent/family strengths to build onto existing competencies and effectively address concerns. It is based on the belief that all parents have the resources to learn new skills and solve problems and therefore involves them in the process of discovery, learning, and coping with the challenges they may face.



Who is this training for?



The Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting Training is valuable for those new to working in home visiting programs for families with young children. Supervisors and program managers will also benefit from the program, which includes a fifth day of training specifically tailored to their needs.




In this 4-day skill-driven course, home visitors and other family practitioners acquire new tools for motivating and communicating with parents of infants and young children.  The training is aimed at supporting parents to form secure attachment relationships, to be involved in their child’s development, to strengthen the foundations of their family and solve their problems.

Concrete skills are gained through video demonstrations followed by hands-on practice with commonly encountered parenting and family scenarios.

  Topics covered include:

• Why Prevention Programs for New Parents are a Wise Investment
• Building Prevention Programs that Build Protective Factors for Children
• Early Brain Development: New Frontiers
• Effects of Neglect and Childhood Trauma on Development and Adult Functioning
• Parent-Child Attachments: Ingredients and End Products
• Infant Cues and Signals
• CHEEERS: A Parent-Child Interaction-Relationship Assessment Tool
• Early Child Development: New Perspectives
• The Strength-Based Solution-Focused Approach: Examination of the Practitioner’s Beliefs and Interactions
• Strength-Based, Solution-Focused Strategies for Motivating Nurturing Parenting and Strengthening Parents/Families
• Goal Setting and Follow Through: Making It Interesting and Painless for Everyone
• Dads Do Matter: Motivating Fathers to Participate in Your Program
• Embracing Culture&Traditions to Strengthen Families
• Establishing and Maintaining Professional Boundaries

Training participants will benefit from:

• 4-5 day interactive training (day five is specifically designed for supervisors and program managers)
• Tools and practical strategies for successful services to families
• Skill development in engaging families and building trusting relationships
• Strategies for building parental competencies
• Practices to promote positive parent-child relationships
• An overview of the parent survey process
• How to support growth in families
• Informative discussions on professional boundaries, limit setting, self-care tips
• Certificate of completion with attendance and participation in the core training