Flexible activity
The knowledge and skills of the service providers are important to develop the capacity of parents.
Service providers who deliver the program as home visitors, facilitators or clinicians are trained in the program, and often have prior professional qualifications, skills, and experience. These include medical clinicians or residents, social or family support workers trained in a particular program. Sometimes the program service provider has lived experience and cultural knowledge, and training in the program.
This flexible activity has been implemented with several different target groups. Key characteristics include:
Nurse-Family Partnership: The home visitor is a qualified nurse.
Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program: The home visitor is a qualified nurse.
Early Start: Family support workers have nursing or social work qualifications and have also attended a five-week training program specific to Early Start.
Right@Home: The home visitor is a qualified nurse.
Pride in Parenting: The program uses paraprofessional home visitors who participate in a 45-day intensive training on issues to be covered and the specific content for each visit.
Healthy Steps for Young Children: The model introduces a child development expert trained in the Healthy Steps approach into the paediatric primary care practice.
PATSCH: The program is delivered by trained parent educators.
Promoting First Relationships: The program is delivered by community-based service providers, with master’s degrees in social work or counselling, certified to deliver the program.
Johns Hopkins Children and Youth Program: The program employs paediatricians, nurses, parent education specialists, social workers and support staff. Community based home visitors receive training and direct supervision from module’s educator (Johns Hopkins University) and social workers.
HeadStart: The program is provided by trained providers.
Relief Nursery Program: This program is delivered by appropriately qualified people with ongoing education, training, and individual and group supervision.
Family Support Program: The program is delivered by a multi-disciplinary team including a social worker, a psychologist, an early childhood educator and two social educators.
ParentCorps: Face-to-face groups in school settings are provided by trained residents and social workers. These facilitators undertake a Professional Development Program. The teachers who co-lead the family program also receive training.
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: The program is delivered by master- and doctoral-level psychologists or social workers trained in PCIT.
The Incredible Years Preschool BASIC Parenting Program Enhanced with Home Visits: The program is delivered by professionals specifically trained and accredited.
The Incredible Years Shortened Basic Version: Group leaders are trained nurses specialising in public healthcare, with experience in clinical work. Group leaders are trained according to certification procedures established by The Incredible Years program, and receive continuous supervision through observations, role play, and video reviews from a certified trainer and two mentors.
SEEK: The program is delivered by physicians, social workers, early interventionists, early childhood teachers, and other service professionals. The social worker and physician are trained in the use of this program.
Child-Adult Relationship Enhancements in Primary Care: The program is delivered in a clinical setting by clinicians.
Group attachment-based intervention: The program operates in a clinical setting with trained clinicians.
17 Feb 2023
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Nations Peoples of NSW and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
Informed by lessons of the past, Department of Communities and Justice is improving how we work with Aboriginal people and communities. We listen and learn from the knowledge, strength and resilience of Stolen Generations Survivors, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal communities.
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