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Training Program Plan

Danyelle Mitchell
06/22/2015
AET 570
Natasha Spellman

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Training Program Plan

Part I
Early Head Start Home Base Visitor Training Program.
Head start has been around for nearly 50 years but the Home Base program has only been
around for about 10 years. The purpose of the Early Head Start (EHS) Home base Visitor
Training program is to help assist Home Visitors with providing the necessary tools and skills to
be an effective educator to the families they service. The training will consist of activities, tips,
and information they can share with all 12 of their families on their caseload. The job of a Home
Visitor is to go to the homes of their families once a week for an hour in a half a week and
educate the parents on how to provide developmentally appropriate activates for their 0 to 3 year
old child. The Home Visitor also provided information on services they made need in the
community such as employment, health care, education, and housing, etc. This training will help
guide home visitors as they provide resources, home activities and, tips to help build a strong
educational foundation that will stay with the child and the family throughout their educational
experience in life. This training will help Home visitors build their professional development by
sharing and learning from others in the training group which will produce a positive impact on
their adult learning.
Goals
1. Provide Home Visitors with the tools and skills to help educate their families
2. To guide Home Visitors on how to educate their families on developmentally appropriate
activities.
3. To educate Home visitors on how to provide effective Home Visits

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4. To help guide Home Visitors when providing resources, home activities and tips to help
build a strong educational foundation.
Objectives
1. Home Visitors will be able to provide tools and skills to their families in need
2. Home Visitors will be able to provide effective Home visits to the families on their
caseload
3. Home visitors will help the families create an effective, safe, and developmentally
appropriate learning environment.
4. Home Visitors will provide community resources that will help ensure the family stays
healthy and stable when it comes to their employment, health care, education, and
housing.
Part II
When it comes to early childhood education it can be very beneficial not only to the child
but to the parents as well. If a child is educated early in life it can help with the childs self
regulation, social and emotional development, language and literacy development, cognitive
development, and physical development. Children who attend high-quality preschool enter
kindergarten with better pre-reading skills, richer vocabularies, and stronger basic math skills
than those who do not," says NIEER director W. Steven Barnett, PhD (Kanter, 2015). Needs or
gap analysis were conducted to determine the need of this training. Determining the attitudes and
behaviors was also important. The 3 techniques used were questionnaires, observations, group
sessions and interviews.
Questionnaires will be given to the employees and families. The questionnaires for the
employees will focus on if they feel like they are effectively trained home visitors and what
training they would like. The questionnaires for the families will focus on if the familys needs

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are met. The questionnaires indicated that the home visitors felt that they needed to be trained
more on how to be an effective home visitor. The questionnaires for the families revealed that the
familys needs were met but there are additional needs that they have.
Observations will be done by site supervisors. Who will accompany Home visitors on
their home visits to observe them while in the field Observations will also happen while the
home visitor is in the office. Site supervisors will monitor the home visitors files to see if they
are at NHA standards. Observations indicated that some employees need training on the process
of being a home visitor.
Group sessions will be conducted and will focus on how the employees feel as a whole
on how effective they are as home visitors. Employees will get a change to converse on topics
they will like to be trained on, resources, and tools that will better assist them with families of the
program. Group sessions indicated that home visitors will like to be trained.
Interviews will be conducted by select families where they will be interviewed on if the
program has assisted them in educating their child and how has it helped. Questions of what have
they learned about their childs development and education will also be asked. Interviews
indicated that families feel that they have learned about children development but will like to
learn more.
Part III

Expenses
Personnel
Fringe Benefits
External Staff
Materials

Amount
0
0
0
100

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Technical Support
Equipment
Travel
Facilities
Supplies
Miscellaneous
Total Cost

0 In house technical support

0
0 The training will be head at office
150 for food
0 staff will bring own pencils and paper

Revenue
Parent company
Grants
Government
Miscellaneous
Total Revenue

Amount
200
100
0
0
300

250

Part IV
Required qualifications: job skills, knowledge, and abilities

Ensure compliance with all Home Based option Head Start Performance Standards which
includes conducting weekly home visits to families on their caseload

Work closely with parents in providing an individualized education program for children
on their caseload

Provide for parent education and involvement in planning and decision making regarding
the education and development of the child.

Provide guidance and support for parents to assist them in developing the knowledge and
skills necessary to become the primary teacher of their own children.

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Develop and retain a working knowledge of community health and social service
resources, including services to children with disabilities, and assist families to utilize
these resources.

Time requirement and number of staff positions needed for each skill set

All 14 Home visitors and 2 supervisors must be present for the week long training

Internal Resources

Lesson plans/ Home Visitors

Curriculum

Educational specialist

Books

Handbooks

External Resources

Community resources

Community feedback

Public place ex. Parks, libraries, museums

No Additional resources needed

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Strategy to fill resource gaps

Some strategies to fill resource gaps may include creating partnerships and resources with
other organizations in the community. Provide surveys to the community for feedback

Staff performance evaluation

Staff performance evaluations can be done by the families and the site supervisor. The
families will be given a survey for their home visitor where they can give feedback on
how effective the home visitor is and how they have affected their lives for the best. The
evaluation will focus on time management. Knowledge of their job and materials, and
dependability and flexibility.

Part V

Stakeholders (minimum of five)

Partnership goal

Ways to build support

Families

Partner with Home visitor to

reach goals and help child
develop.

The agency builds support by

providing the family with
resources

Employees/ staff

The agency should create a

partnership with the employees
by providing guidance and
support when needed

Rewards and raises to show

appreciation

Community

The agency partners with the

community to gain information
and resources

Allows the community to get an

inside look and support the
families of the agency.

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Board Members

The agency partners with the

board members to make
decisions that may affect the
families in the program

Ways to build support is by keep

the families involved the
decision making

Federal government

Provide the funds the agency

needs to provide services to
families

Keeping the federal government

up to date and involved.

Part VI

Serving God by serving those in need

ECS Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs
serving children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. These child-focused
programs utilize research-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum and have the overall
goal of increasing Kindergarten readiness for young children from low-income families (ECS,
2015). Head Start is offered to income eligibility families or families who child has a disability.
Home visitors in the home based program provide one home visit a week that last an hour and a
half. The purpose of home visits is to help educate parent on parenting skills and to help them
use their home as the childs first learning environment. The Home visitor will provide the
parents with learning activities that will help the development and the childs growth. Home
visits are also a time where home visitors may provide resources for needs that the family may

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have whether it is resources for housing, employment, or health.

Fact sheet
Who

What
When
Where
Why

How

The training program is designed for New and

existing home visitor that need training or a
refresher. Site supervisors will also be in
attendance.
The home visitor training is a mandatory
training for all home visitors provided by ECS
Head start specialist.
The training will last for a week
EHS Home based visitors office
The training is need to help Home visitors
effectively educate their parents on how to
teach their child and provide the services and
resources that are in need. The training will
also be used for the professional growth of the
home visitors
The training will be conducted in a group
setting that will include the site supervisors as
well as the home visitors. The training will
include technology, scenarios, resources and
information on how to better assist.
Benefits
A childs first teacher is their parent so it is imperative those parents are taught and

understand that their childs education relies on them. Being the childs parent not only mean
taking care of the child but being that childs role modeling which is where children first learn.
Preschoolers depend upon observation as they begin to understand and test the workings of
interpersonal relationships. And even teenagersalthough you might not believe it!are
listening to your words and observing your actions, examining how you handle everything from
personal relationships to stress to career disappointments ("Scan", 2015). Giving a child the
Head Start will set the foundation for their education for the rest of their lives. Parent who is
educated may become more motivated in their own learning opportunities.

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Early childhood development is very important, according to Zero to Three The first
three years of life are a period of incredible growth in all areas of a babys development ("Zero
To Three", 2014).This training will help Home visitors educate parents on how to be their childs
first teacher and how important it is. This training will provide the home visitor with the
necessary tools to provide to the parents that will help them become an effective first teacher and
role model for their children. Home visitors will gain knowledge and use the Parents as Teachers
and Creative curriculum as a supplement on how to provide early childhood education. Home
visitors will be allowed to participate in a social learning environment where they will be able to
share and reflect on each others experiences.
Promotion Channels

The promotion for this training will all be internal because it is only for Home visitors.
This training is mandatory for all home based visitors and home base supervisors. The
promotional channels that will be used are email and flyers that will be posted in the home base
office. Emails will be used to notify all staff that there is a mandatory training schedule. An email
will be sent out with enough notice so that home visitors can cancel and reschedule any home
visits they may have the days and times of the trainings. The email will include the day, time, and
location. E mail will be the most effective channel to communicate with home visitors because
they must check their email daily. Flyers will also be posted as reminders around the office. It is
the site supervisors job to make sure all home visitors are aware of the training and will be able
to attend.

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Part VII
Program Evaluation

A program evaluation is needed to evaluate whether home visitors got the proper and
effective training on how to be an effective home visitor. The results from the program
evaluation will give the trainers an idea on what need to be change or added to improve the
training in the future. The individual responsible for overseeing the evaluation are the trainers.
Feedback is needed from the participants to determine if the skills learned were effective and
how they produced a positive impact on adult learning. Feedback also informs trainers of the
home visitors thoughts on the training, whether they liked it or not. The metrics that will be
measured will be success of the training, what have the home visitors learned as a result of
attending the training? Are the home visitors using what they have learned in home visits? And
what improvements are needed in order to keep the training going? These metrics will provide
much needed information for the growth of the training itself and how it will provide appositive
impact on adult learning. The purpose of the evaluation will not only benefit the home visitor but
the families of the program as well. Evaluations can make trainers aware of any changes that
need to make in order to have an effective Home visitor training.

An evaluation will be conducted after the training as well as after 2 weeks of home visit
that the home visitors will go to try out new skills. Surveys and observations will be used to
collect data on the effectiveness of the training. Observation will be done on the home visitor by
the site supervisor while they are at home visits. These observations will be done two weeks after
the training to ensure the home visitors feel comfortable with the family before someone new

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comes in to observe. Interviews may be conducted if the trainer feels more data is needed.
Interviews may be in a group setting or individual depending on the availability of the home
visitor. A cost benefit analysis will also be conducted to determine if the training was cost
effective. This happen immediately after all funds is used and the training wraps up.

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Reference:

Ecs. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.ecscalifornia.org/programs/ecs-head-start/

Kanter, B. (2015). Why Preschool Matters. Retrieved from http://www.parents.com/toddlerspreschoolers/starting-preschool/curriculum/why-preschool-matters/
Scan. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.scanva.org/support-for-parents/parent-resource-center2/parents-as-role-models/
Zero to Three. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/earlydevelopment/?referrer=https://www.google.com/