In preparation for Welcome Baby: Pathways to Resilience Program services being available for families, program staff will be attending the John Hopkins Family Spirit Home Visiting training. The Family Spirit Program is an evidence-based strengths-based home visiting model that was developed for and with indigenous communities that aims to support families in gaining knowledge and skills to assist in the physical, emotional, cognitive and the overall development of their children.
There are a total of 65 lessons included in the curriculum that are facilitated by a Community Health Worker or Community Health Representative with information addressing families’ needs through pregnancy to age three. This curriculum has recently expanded to include more maternal and newborn related health content and will be a perfect fit for our program.
Some of our partners in the project have had a lot of experience using this home visiting model and some partner have little to no prior experience, so we look forward to assisting them in getting staff trained since this expansion of the curriculum and reinvigorate the use of this tool when providing care to families as it can be so valuable.