Provide home visitors training and a structure for collaborative goal setting with attainable, child-focused goals¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The article recommends that programs train and structure home visitors' goal-setting work so that all caregivers are consistently engaged in collaborative goal setting, goals include child-focused as well as parenting aims, and goals are attainable within the program's scope. It points to the Getting Ready Intervention as a promising structured model in which educators and family members build relationships, establish mutual goals, and monitor and evaluate the child's progress. The authors state this structure "may improve the effectiveness of the home-based component of Head Start."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Home visitors need professional development to consistently and routinely engage all caregivers in collaborative goal setting

Constraints¶

• The recommendation arises from an exploratory single-program study whose results the authors say should be interpreted with caution

Target Learners¶

• low-income preschool children and their caregivers in Head Start home-based programs

Target Learning Goals¶

• children's development and school readiness
• caregivers' capacity for parenting

Related Strategies¶

• Home Visiting
• Set growth goals collaboratively so they balance meaningfulness and realism
• Provide universal well-baby screening and home-visit services regardless of income, following Victoria, Australia's model

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Patricia H. Manz, Jaana Lehtinen, and Catherine Bracaliello. (2013). A Case for Increasing Empirical Attention to Head Start's Home-Based Program: An Exploration of Routine Collaborative Goal Setting. School Community Journal, 23(1). http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/standards/Head%20Start%20Requirements