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Recommended Topics for Wraparound Training The wraparound training topics and hours are presented as general guidelines and recommendations. HFA program sites may choose to provide these or additional topics in any sequence that meets their organizational needs, and may decide to devote more or less time to the training topics, in order to provide their staff with sufficient knowledge in the subject areas. * Back to the Wraparound Training topics to be covered prior to working with families. Wraparound Training Topics Recommended for Completion Within Six Months of Hire Communication Skills. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Enable clear transfer of ideas and thoughts using verbal, written, and listening skills. Crisis Intervention. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Explore appropriate interventions to use when handling crises with families, team members, or in one’s personal life. Developmental Screening. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Provide an overview of developmental screening and its benefits. Develop basic proficiency in administering the site’s screening tool and understand the tracking system that will be used to monitor the completion of screens and the resulting referrals for assessment and diagnosis. Family Planning. (2 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Learn about methods currently available that allow a woman to control her fertility rate. Appropriate nonjudgmental methods for sharing information with parents should be discussed. Family Violence. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Explore the dynamics of domestic violence, the general characteristics of the victim and the batterer, and the impact of domestic violence on infants and children. Define appropriate methods for intervention by home visitors, including maintaining personal safety, assisting the victim in writing a safety plan with emphasis on utilizing problem-solving strategies, and community services and referrals. Financial Management. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Learn to help families develop an appreciation for household budgeting, and know when and how to access financial assistance. Infant Development I (0-6 months). (7 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Understand the dynamics of normal human growth and development beginning prenatally, including an overview of the neurologic development of infants, nurturing techniques, the important role of the parent-child relationship, indicators of mental health problems, and techniques for providing an environment conducive to healthy growth and development. Emphasize development of observation skills, proper use of supervision, and utilization of community resources when the infant’s well-being and mental health is a concern. (Nutrition and feeding can be presented as a separate component.) Infant Development II (6-18 months). (7 hrs.) Learning Objectives: A continuation of Infant Development I focusing on ages six to eighteen months. Emphasize information that should be transferred to the parents while addressing positive parent-child interaction, including nurturing techniques. Also address developmental issues such as separation anxiety, “spoiling”, toddler exploration, and biting. Perinatal Loss. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Understand the ways perinatal loss impacts families and become knowledgeable of strategies that can be implemented by Supervisors and FSWs in helping families integrate such losses into their lives. Pregnancy and Prenatal Care. (6 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Become familiar with the prenatal period, including information to share with the family for the successful completion of the pregnancy, such as establishing a medical home, keeping prenatal appointments, information specific to nutrition, exercise, emotional changes, fetal growth and development, and the importance of addressing lifestyles since the mother’s lifestyle choices have the greatest influence on healthy outcomes. (Additional training hours may be necessary for programs serving families prenatally.) Problem-Solving Skills. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Learn appropriate methods for addressing challenges encountered in providing direct service to families. Safety in the Home and Community Environment. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Provide basic safety information for homes with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Learn how to present information to parents in a respectful, nonjudgmental manner. Shadowing. (5 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Observe other home visitors working with families to gain an understanding of the realities and practicalities of working with families in their homes. Stress Management and Personal Health Issues. (5 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Examine methods to maintain energy and staff commitment. Explore health issues related to provision of home-based services and precautions to take for maintenance of personal health. Substance Abuse. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Learn the symptoms, dynamics, origins, family challenges, and appropriate interventions associated with substance abuse. Address its impact on consistent, nurturing parenting. Team Building: Getting Acquainted. (7.5 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Gain familiarity and understanding about each person’s uniqueness. Learn to incorporate teamwork and trust into the work environment. Toddler Development I (18-24 months). (4 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Explore the life of the toddler, including discipline, fears, limit-setting, motor skills, feeding, sleeping, language development, play, toilet training, attachment, and separation. Values Clarification. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Examine that which makes us who we are – what are values? How are they formed? What if other people’s values are different from our own? Well-Baby Care. (4 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Explore the components of normal well baby care. Include information to be shared during parent education, such as recommended schedules for immunizations and physician visits. Provide instruction on basic infant care such as bathing, taking a temperature, and diaper changing. Worker Safety. (2 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Address personal safety issues that may arise when providing home visiting services. Discuss site-specific safety policies and procedures. Provide an opportunity to address specific concerns within the community. Working Effectively with Parents. (4 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Participants will gain an understanding of various learning, teaching, counseling, and communication styles that are most effective in working with parents to support family growth. Working with HIV/AIDS-Impacted Families. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Become knowledgeable and sensitive to the physical, psychological, and emotional manifestations of providing services to a family that has an HIV/AIDS-infected family member. Other suggested topics for wraparound training might include: Disabilities, Adult. (4 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Understand the challenges of working with parents who are physically disabled and the impact of disability on parenting young children. Emphasize the importance of linking parents with community resources and interventions as needed. Disabilities, Children. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Understand the challenges of parenting children with disabilities, from birth to 5 years of age, and recognize the potential for abuse and neglect among this population. The training should include referral resources for early intervention services that will support and enhance the appropriate development of these children. Discipline. (4 hrs.) Learning Objective: To explore the concept of discipline and understand its purpose in parenting. Emphasize non-physical forms of discipline and explore parent and staff attitudes and practices. Introduce a variety of appropriate disciplinary techniques for the zero to five population. Father/Primary Male Influence Involvement. (2 hrs.) Learning Objective: Explore the benefits of male involvement on the development of children, with emphasis on involving the primary male influence in home visiting services and in ensuring the father-child relationship is nurtured and honored in program services. Training should address the program’s philosophy for male inclusion in program services (pre-and post-natal) and the employment of strategies to support and engage fathers in developing skills to appropriately parent children right from birth. Mental Health, Adult. (3 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Introduction to mental health competencies and compromises that may affect parenting. This may include parents that are cognitively delayed, learning disabled, or otherwise mentally compromised. The training should include a review of supportive community resources that effectively link parents to services. Special attention should be given to parents who experience post-partum depression, clinical depression, psychotic disorders, etc. as well as the effects of mental health on bonding and attachment and the developing infant/child. Mental Health, Infant/Toddler. (3 hrs.) Learning Objective: Introduction to the field of infant mental health and the role of caregivers in supporting the emotional health of children. Training may include an introduction to the diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders in infancy and early childhood and appropriate referral to mental health professionals for consultation, intervention planning and services. Focus on empowering parents to feel competent in parenting special needs children, enhancing the parent-child relationship and linking families to supportive resources, i.e., therapeutic services such as appropriate play groups, inclusion programs, etc. Universal Precautions. (2 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Become familiar with universal precautions as it pertains to working with families in home-based and clinic-based services. Special attention should be given to families with special medical conditions that may require specific precautions, i.e., infectious and communicable diseases. Welfare to Work Issues. (2 hrs.) Learning Objectives: Explore the impact of welfare to work programs on providing home visitation services to families and how programs may need to make adjustments to meet the needs of parents abiding by these guidelines. Understand the guidelines for welfare to work programs within the community/state. Discuss program constraints providing services and constraints on parents that may be a challenge when entering the world of work as they parent children. |
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