Concepts Presented in the Videotape
- The Head Start Program Performance Standards are met through the home-based program option, encompassing all the component areas.
- Home visitors work with parents and families to address families' hopes and needs through home visits, group socialization activities, and other Head Start experiences.
- Home visitors establish and maintain rapport with parents, based on mutual respect and trust, in order to form a partnership with parents for meeting family needs.
- Home visitors help parents to use the home as a learning environment.
- Home visitors base their work with families on the family needs assessment
and the child's developmental profile.- Home visitors and parents use information about each family to develop individualized short and long-term goals.
- Home visitors individualize with each family-building on family members' strengths while utilizing their surroundings and home environment.
- Supervisors, component coordinators, and other Head Start team members support home visitors and facilitate their work.
- Home visitors use a variety of skills and techniques, including a systematic referral process.
- Socialization experiences provide opportunities for parent and child peer interaction and offer a setting for parent observation of their child and other children in a group.
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