Call for Information
The Supporting and Strengthening the Home Visiting Workforce (SAS-HV) project aims to advance understanding of how to support and strengthen the home visiting workforce by promoting home visitor professional well-being and reflective supervision in home visiting. The project is funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Health Resources and Services Administration and in coordination with ACF’s Tribal Home Visiting Program.
One of the project activities includes an environmental scan of existing strategies, resources, and measures to support home visitor professional well-being. We are seeking input from a broad array of stakeholders, such as home visiting models; state, territory, and tribal MIECHV programs; local home visiting programs; technical assistance and service providers; researchers and measure developers; and professional well-being subject matter experts.
We are interested in learning about strategies, resources, and measures related to multiple dimensions of home visitor professional well-being (e.g., economic well-being of the home visiting workforce, job stressors and supports, mental health and well-being, social supports, physical health, job satisfaction, job engagement, job commitment, etc.). These materials will help us understand the current landscape of strategies, resources, and measures related to home visitor well-being and identify gaps in available services and measures and areas in which additional supports may be necessary. The materials will ultimately inform the development of a public report focused on home visitor professional well-being. We are interested in materials that are both under development and in progress as well as materials that are considered complete.
Examples of strategies and resources that might be used to support home visitor professional well-being include:
- Trainings or workshops
- Interventions or programs
- Coaching or mentoring techniques
- Service delivery strategies
- Specific model, organizational, or program policies and procedures
- Protocols, curricula, manuals, or books
- Technical assistance documents or guides
- State, tribal, territory, or local initiatives
Examples of measures used to assess elements of home visitor professional well-being include:
- Surveys, questionnaires, or individual measures (such as scales)
- Interview protocols
- Observational tools
If you have information about existing strategies, resources, or measures that could inform this project, please send it, along with contact information, to sashv@jbassoc.com by June 10, 2021. We will assume materials you share may be made publicly available unless you specify otherwise. Please include a URL for materials that are publicly available online. Information provided will be used only for this project and contact information will be used only if we have follow-up questions about the information provided. Please feel free to share this call for information with other colleagues in your network as you see relevant.
SAS-HV is being conducted by James Bell Associates and its partners Johns Hopkins University, MDRC, and the University of Colorado Denver.