Online Courses

This online training covers general information about typical child development, taking into consideration that all domains of development are interrelated. It also familiarizes participants with a range of conditions and disabilities that impact development. It is recommended for all Early Intervention staff and therapists as well as anyone working with children aged birth to three.

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Designed for all FIT providers, this online training is a non-facilitated learning experience that includes follow up activities to be completed and reviewed with the participant’s supervisor in their respective early intervention agency.

There are seven lessons that address the foundational concepts of providing early intervention services, specifically:

the development of strong relationships between the caregiver and the child and the caregiver and the provider; and
the use of routines as the basis for providing intervention to children and families
The seven lessons are:

Introduction: What Guides the Work We Do?
Lesson Two: Adult Learning
Lesson Three: Relationships
Lesson Four: Observation
Lesson Five: Family Diversity and Uniqueness
Lesson Six: Toddlers learn within Routines and Everyday Activities
Lesson Seven: Exploring Routines

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This training is for early intervention professionals in the use of the Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment (IDA), which must be completed for any evaluation of a child over the age of 1 month (adjusted). The online portion of the training covers all phases of the IDA process and includes a case study that course participants begin to score during the online training, and then complete on their own and submit for review.

Important Note: The IDA is a complex process that takes time and practice to learn and understand, so participants need more support than an online course can offer. In an effort to provide the most tailored and appropriate support possible, general information regarding your performance on the course's required assignment will be shared with your agency's IDA Lead. Thank you for participating in this course!

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Family Service Coordinators (FSCs) are responsible for informing families about the Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Evaluation (CME) and for gathering critical information from families necessary for the IDA process. This course is an excerpt of the full IDA course for evaluators. It is designed ONLY for those who have the role of Family Service Coordinator and are NOT in dual-role. This course gives a brief overview of the IDA process and covers the first three phases of IDA, which are a primary responsibility of FSCs: Referral, Parent Interview, and Health Review. This course offers a certificate of completion for FSCs.

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Designed for all FIT providers, this three part module discusses the primary building blocks of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). Every section of the IFSP is connected to the Routines Based Interview (RBI). This module supports the understanding that the ultimate goal of the IFSP is to enable children to be active participants in a variety of settings. Through the RBI process, providers will understand the child’s needs in the context of family life.

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Designed for all FIT providers, this two part module will support the understanding of the description of a child’s functional abilities, strengths and needs in relation to the three early childhood outcomes, and how the child’s developmental status impacts his or her ability to participate in daily routines and activities. It will support providers in understanding how assessment, planning and intervention are all connected and will support them in writing comprehensive descriptions of the child in family friendly language.

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Designed for all FIT providers, this three part module supports the IFSP team in understanding and developing functional outcomes and strategies based on family concerns, priorities, resources, observations and evaluation information. It will support understanding that the functional outcome statement is a roadmap describing where the family wants to go and in thinking about what can be different in the family’s life with support from the team. This module also supports providers in moving from the development of functional outcomes into implementation strategies the family will be able to use during their daily routines and activities.

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This training will provide trainees with the rationale for collecting data on early childhood outcomes, explain the methods used to collect outcomes data in New Mexico, explain the intended use of the Early Childhood Outcomes Summary Form, and illustrate how to effectively determine a comparison summary rating for each of the outcomes.

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The Part C Orientation is an online training designed to support all new FIT program staff, parents, and other community service providers in understanding New Mexico’s early intervention system including principles, policies, program design and practices. This training will help you become familiar with the framework of early intervention, the core values and the New Mexico Family Infant Toddler (FIT) Program Key Principles and Concepts that are the foundation of providing services to infants, toddlers and their families.

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This training is intended to complement and clarify information included in the NM Family Infant Toddler Program's technical assistance document, Evaluation & Assessment. It will highlight the principles, concepts, and recommended practices essential to the evaluation of infants and toddlers that are central to effective early intervention. The training will engage participants around an actual family of a young infant using a case-study approach.

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In this first segment of the Foundations of Family Service Coordination, participants will learn about early intervention in New Mexico and the role of the Family Service Coordinator and begin to explore concepts important for working with families. This segment is the REQUIRED prerequisite to attending the first interactive session of FSC training.

Course Length is approximately 70 minutes to complete all 3 modules.

NOTE: This course is a prerequisite for the interactive Foundations of Family Service Coordination training, as such it is only available for registration in the month leading up to the interactive sessions. Please speak to your supervisor to find out the next available training date.

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In this second segment of the Foundations of Family Service Coordination, participants will learn about the first steps in the family’s journey through early intervention from referral through the development of the initial IFSP. This segment is the REQUIRED prerequisite to attending the first interactive session of FSC training.

Course Length is approximately 3.5 hours to complete all 9 modules.

NOTE: This course is a prerequisite for the interactive Foundations of Family Service Coordination training, as such it is only available for registration in the month leading up to the interactive sessions. Please speak to your supervisor to find out the next available training date.

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In this third segment of the Foundations of Family Service Coordination, participants will learn about monitoring of the IFSP and ensuring that families are receiving the appropriate services, six-month reviews, annual IFSP meetings, and the basics of documentation and billing. This segment is the REQUIRED prerequisite to attending the third interactive session of FSC training.

Course Length is approximately 70 minutes to complete all 3 modules.

NOTE: This course is a prerequisite for the interactive Foundations of Family Service Coordination training, as such it is only available for registration in the month leading up to the interactive sessions. Please speak to your supervisor to find out the next available training date.

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In this fourth segment of the Foundations of Family Service Coordination, participants will learn about the early childhood transition process including transition planning, the transition conference, and the initial comprehensive evaluation for Part B services. This segment is the REQUIRED prerequisite to attending the fourth interactive session of FSC training.

Course Length is approximately 2 hours to complete all 6 modules.

NOTE: This course is a prerequisite for the interactive Foundations of Family Service Coordination training, as such it is only available for registration in the month leading up to the interactive sessions. Please speak to your supervisor to find out the next available training date.

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Foundations of Family Service Coordination is a four-segment training that orients family service coordinators to the “what,” “why,” and “how” of their roles. Each segment focuses on a different topic to help FSCs gain the necessary knowledge and tools to provide high-quality, effective service coordination to all children and families.

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Attachment Vitamins is an eight week course to provide participants with a solid foundation in early childhood mental health. The course uses a developmental psychopathology framework that describes the interplay of risk and protective factors in the child, the parent-child relationship, and the family environment in affecting the child’s developmental trajectory. The content includes developmental milestones, temperamental styles, individual differences in quality of attachment, and normative fears from infancy through the preschool years. The course also describes mental health concerns in early childhood, provides a framework for assessing the possible causes of emotional disturbances and challenging behaviors, and outlines approaches to support or restore the child’s healthy social and emotional development. Professional development issues, including self-care, reflective practice, supervision, and cultural considerations specific to the state of New Mexico are also covered.

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This online course is designed to support Home Visiting staff explore essential concepts and strategies aimed to enhance cultural competence and humility in their work with families. The objectives of this training are to develop an understanding of:

How culture can be defined both broadly and specifically, and why it is important
The difference between cultural competency and cultural humility
Recognition of the relevance in learning about cultural differences in the context of home visiting
How to acquire actionable steps to enhance skills as a home visitor for better engagement and service provision to families

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This five-part training discusses typical child development through the context of one family's experience and it tells a story from prenatal development through five years of age. The resources and learning materials are imparted through a home visiting perspective. This is a required training for home visiting staff and managers and is also recommended for anyone interested in gathering information and resources on typical child development.

These five modules are required for all home-visiting staff and managers and cover a variety of topics relevant to the work.

Introduces the family and the home visitor.

This module is required for all home visiting staff and managers and covers a variety of topics relevant to the work including:

Concepts of child development that impact the family and child prenatally through age five
An understanding of how development happens through relationships and experiences
An understanding of developmental domains and how they are interrelated
The sequence of development and developmental milestones

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This module covers Tabatha’s growth from birth to about 5 months.

The objectives of this training are to develop an understanding of:

How development happens through relationships and experiences
Developmental domains in the baby’s first year and how they are interrelated
The development and developmental milestones sequence during the baby’s first year.

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This module covers Tabatha’s development up through about 18 months. Motor and language development are discussed.

The objectives of this training are to develop an understanding of:

How development happens through relationships and experiences
Developmental domains in the early years and how they are interrelated
The sequence of development and developmental milestones during the early years.

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This module covers some additional areas of development.

The objectives of this training are to develop an understanding of:

How development happens through relationships and experiences
Developmental domains in the toddler years and how they are interrelated
The sequence of development and developmental milestones during the toddler years.

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This module contains additional details about sensory processing and sensory processing disorders.

The objectives of this training are to develop an understanding of:

How development happens through relationships and experiences
Developmental domains, sensory processing, and how they are interrelated
The sequence of development and developmental milestones

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This course is required for all Home Visiting staff and managers and covers a variety of topics relevant to the work including:

Why we focus on relationships
How the relationship between an infant and their parent develops
What relationships are important to the home visitor
The basic skills for a home visitor and what a home visitor does during a home visit
Reflective supervision

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This course is required for all Home Visiting staff and managers and covers a variety of topics relevant to the work including:

Learning about the health, safety, growth, and development of the baby
Social support and well-being of the caregivers in the family
Based on a case study:
Knowledge and skills using the screenings, tools, forms, and supportive documents adopted by the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) Home Visiting Program

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This course is required for all Home Visiting staff and managers and covers a variety of topics relevant to the work including:

Why self-awareness is important to the work of the home visitor and what that means
What it means to be aware of others, and what role empathy plays in our work
The parent-child dyad from an attachment perspective
The role of reflection for ourselves and parents

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This course is required for all Home Visiting staff and managers and covers a variety of topics relevant to the work including:

Examining the home visitor’s role with a family in regard to their own and the family’s expertise
Recognizing the importance of utilizing a clinical consultant
Increasing awareness of epigenetics and its implications for our work as home visitors
Identifying ways for home visitors and families to prepare for transition in their relationships

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This course is required for all Home Visiting staff and managers and covers a variety of topics relevant to the work including:

The exploration of reflective practices as they are incorporated within the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) Home Visiting programs, with special attention to:

Reflective supervision
Reflective practice across relationships
Parent-child relationships
Home visitor-parent relationships
Supervisor-home visitor relationships

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The Introduction to Family Goal Setting online training is designed to provide an overview for home visitors as they support families to set goals using the Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely (S.M.A.R.T.) Goal Process.

This online training will help home visitors to:

Learn the components of a family goal (S.M.A.R.T. goal).
Understand how they can support a family in creating a family goal, which may include caregiver goals as well.
Understand how to use information from screenings, tools, and what is learned from visiting with families to support goal development.
Understand the importance of updating family goals regularly, build it into practice, and how to enter it into the Home Visiting database.

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This online course will provide participants with an understanding of:
NM Home Visiting Accountability Act
Framework/6 Long Term Outcomes of NM Home Visiting
Vision of NM Home Visiting
Goals of NM Home Visiting
NM Home Visiting Program Standards
Questions to Prompt Reflections

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This online course is designed to support Home Visiting staff, this module is a supplement to the PICCOLO™ Training DVD and User’s Guide which should be completed first and is a requirement to be competed in order to be trained to fidelity for this Tool. If you have not completed the PICCOLO™ Training DVD and read the User’s Guide, please stop and compete that before proceeding with this module. In this module, we will be looking at what is PICCOLO™ in NM Early Childhood and Care Department (ECECD) home visiting, ECECD frequency and guidance, introducing PICCOLO™ to families, giving feedback and using PICCOLO™ language during home visits with an emphasis on parents’ strengths from a relationship-based perspective, as well as telehealth or virtual home visiting considerations and resources.

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This online course is designed to support Home Visitors in recognizing how family engagement plays a pivotal role in the success of programs, as it directly influences the well-being and development of young children. The objectives of this training are to develop an understanding of:

The importance of family engagement in home visiting programs
How to strategize to overcome common barriers of the engagement of families
What tools to use as home visitors to cultivate nurturing connections with families
How to enhance the effectiveness of home visiting programs

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The New Mexico Early Childhood Safe Sleep Initiative online training is designed to support all home-visiting providers, parents, caregivers, home-based service providers, center-based service providers, and Head Start and Early Head Start providers in:

Identifying facts and myths about Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID)/Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Understanding current information about SUID risk factors
Defining actions that families and caregivers can take to reduce SUID risk
Understanding the procedure for requesting, storing, and distributing the New Mexico Home Visiting Safe Sleep Kits

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Important: If you are required to take the Safe Sleep training as part of Home Visiting Training requirements, please go to the Moodle course titled "Home Visiting Program – Safe Sleep (For-Credit)"

This version of the Online Home Visiting Safe Sleep training can be taken as a review course for personnel who have already taken the required Home Visiting Program – Safe Sleep training for credit and want to review it as a refresher, or share it with family members. It is also available for others who want information about Safe Sleep best practices, but are not interested in receiving a certificate of completion for credit.

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This online course will provide the participant with an overview of:
MIECHV Program
MIECHV Program in NM
Crosswalk of MIECHV Benchmarks with the NM Home Visiting Long Term Outcomes

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The Trauma-Informed Practice online training is designed to provide an overview of trauma-informed practice and to support home visitors as they work with families who may be or have been affected by trauma.

This online training will support home visitors:

To understand what is meant by trauma and trauma-informed practice.
To gain an understanding of how they can support families who are experiencing or have experienced trauma.
With valuable resources to support families who are experiencing or have experienced trauma and to support themselves as they utilize a trauma-informed practice.

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This online course is designed to support Home Visitors and highlight the significance of their role in assisting families during transitions. The objectives of this training are to develop an understanding of:

The various early childhood transitions
The promotion of continuity of care and support
Enhancing coordination of services
How to strengthen family collaboration and plan for transitions

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