These videos were created to demonstrate concepts and skills to support UMBC HVTC trainings. Longer training videos demonstrate simulated home visit encounters and specialist information and recommendations on various training topics. Shorter skills videos demonstrate specific communication strategies as well as screening and other skills to meet the challenges of home visiting professionals.
Here Tiffany Brown discusses her opinion on addiction, and the stance her agency (Baltimore County DSS) takes addiction and their goal of family preservation.
This clip is featured in Module 1 of the SEN Online Training.
In this example, the home visitor admits her mistakes and explains why she responded so poorly in the judgemental unwanted advice video.
To teach someone to use a new skill effectively, such as a parenting technique, takes many steps. This video is a step-by-step demonstration of a home visitor using adult learning principles to work with a caregiver to build selective attention techniques.
Affirmations are helpful tools that help affirm and encourage a caregiver and their actions. They can be especially helpful in developing a rapport with a caregiver as it shows your emotional support.
Affirmations are helpful tools that help affirm and encourage a caregiver and their actions. They can be especially helpful in developing a rapport with a caregiver as it shows your emotional support.
Affirmations are helpful tools that help affirm and encourage a caregiver and their actions. They can be especially helpful in developing a rapport with a caregiver as it shows your emotional support.
Affirmations are helpful tools that help affirm and encourage a caregiver and their actions. They can be especially helpful in developing a rapport with a caregiver as it shows your emotional support. In this example, the home visitor affirms a families attempts at maintaining recovery.
This video provides an example of affirmation.
This video example shows a home visitor screening for alcohol.
Differences between the family and home visitor’s backgrounds can lead to different assumptions about how families should function. In this video, home visitors discuss assumptions that they’ve had to “check” to interact effectively with their families.
Differences between the family and home visitor’s backgrounds and cultures can lead to different expectations surrounding how families should function. In this video, home visitors discuss initial assumptions that they’ve had to reevaluate in order to interact effectively with their families.
In this video, providers discuss breastfeeding and substance use.
This example portrays a home visitor engaging in a brief intervention following screening for marijuana use.
This example portrays a home visitor engaging in a brief intervention following screening for tobacco use.
Here Tiffany Brown of Baltimore County DSS gives her advice on provider bias when working with substance-using pregnant women
In this video, providers discuss treating substance use in context and with a multidisciplinary approach.
In order of appearance: Dr. Lauren Jansson, Dr. Martha Velez, Dr. Katrina Mark, Dr. Chris Welsh.
In this example, the home visitor uses a complex reflection to reflect a caregivers desire to maintain her social life with friends and how important that is to her, considering the hard work she puts in as a caretaker.
Discipline can be a tricky topic of conversation, depending on the family’s beliefs and practices. Parents from different cultures may have different ideas about affection and behavior management. In this video, home visitors and supervisors discuss their experiences navigating these differences.
Laura Latta is the Director of Early Childhood Initiatives at the Family League Baltimore.
Lauren Jansson, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Center for Addiction and Pregnancy.
It can be challenging for a caregiver to manage a child’s difficult behavior and even more challenging to talk with a home visitor about it. In this video, a home visitor uses effective communication techniques to discuss behavior management and offer alternative techniques to physical discipline.
Here Dr. Katie Mark discusses the challenge of working with women who may distrust the medical system due to past negative experiences, stigma, and shame.
This video clip is used in Module 1 of the SEN Online Training.
Double sided reflections reflect both the change and sustain talk in a statement. In this example the home visitor uses a double sided reflection when discussing a caregivers overwhelming family expectations.
This video shows an example of a double-sided reflection, which is a reflection that considers both the change and sustain talk in a statement.