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Our Purpose
The UMBC Home Visiting Training Center provides trainings, support, and consultation to support infant home visitors and supervisors. Our main training, the UMBC Home Visitor Training Certificate Program, is open to home visitors, family support professionals, and their supervisors and empowers participants with current knowledge and empirically supported practices in critical areas facing the women, children, and families they serve. A second training is open only to supervisors of home visitors and family support professionals promotes use of reflective practice and a focus on positive parent-child relationships in supervision sessions. You can find more information about both programs under the Training drop down window.
Testimonial
“We especially liked the hands on practice. It was very helpful, especially with the motivational interviewing skills and the use of open ended questions to elicit additional information. We have had similar trainings and were familiar with motivational interviewing but it seemed as though this time the training team infused more insight in how to use these tools more effectively. The Training Certificate program complements (not duplicates) what we are taught during the HFA core training as well as with our curriculum training. It is a must-have training for all home visitors and their supervisors. I can’t wait to have my other home visitors participate in the training.” — a Healthy Families America supervisor who completed the Training Certificate program