Home Visiting Training Courses

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.

10 CEUs are available for Counseling/Therapy

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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 three 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.

Recommended pre-requisite for Home Visitors: Foundations of Relationship-Based Home Visiting

3 CEUs are available for Counseling/Therapy

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

Basic skills
Health, safety, growth and development of the baby
Social supports and well-being of caregivers and family
Attachment and reflection
General considerations for the work of home visitors
This course includes Continuity Questions that are required components of the learning process. The Continuity Questions are intended to assist home visitors internalize the content of the training by discussing their understanding of the concepts presented (via reflective supervision) in the context of their work with families.

This course can be viewed in the following ways:

Individually with the opportunity to discuss the Continuity Questions with a supervisor
As a group with the opportunity to stop and discuss issues as they arise
Individually or as a group as a review for experienced home visitors

6 CEUs are available for Social Work/Counseling

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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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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 SIDS risk factors
Defining actions that families and caregivers can take to reduce SIDS risk
Understanding the procedure for requesting, storing, and distributing the New Mexico Home Visiting Safe Sleep Cradles

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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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