Virginia Home Visitor Trainings
About Our Trainings
Early Impact Virginia (EIV) offers a variety of live and self-paced training for home visiting and family support professionals through the Institute. These trainings are designed to prepare and advance the knowledge of home visitors and supervisors. All trainings have been created by, for and with home visitors throughout the design process. EIV’s Professional Development Action Team (PDAT) is a part of the complete module creation process. Learn more about PDAT here.
Covers 116 Competencies
Online trainings cover all 116 competencies in the National Family Support Competency Framework. The Framework is available in English and Spanish (coming soon). You can view the recommended training progression for all trainings here. Live courses cover select competencies and are available only to Virginia home visiting program staff. Live courses are offered both virtually and in classroom settings.
Our trainings are accessed and conducted through The Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals.
Individualized Learning Pathways
Early Impact Virginia uses a competency-based approach to provide an individualized learning pathway for all home visiting professionals. We implement this approach through The Institute. Virginia is a founding and lead partner on The Institute, a robust learning management system where all of Virginia’s live and self-paced courses are housed.
Self-Paced Online Training e-Learning Modules & Live Trainings
Home visitors and supervisors use the Institute to assess their knowledge, learn through self-paced online training modules, register for live training events, and demonstrate continued learning through quizzes. Home visitors can even earn certificates, CEU’s, digital badges, college course credit, and ultimately National Family Support Professional Certification.
Training Design
Early Impact Virginia partners with the Health Education Design Group at James Madison University to develop engaging, interactive asynchronous learning modules for home visitors and supervisors. Training content is created by subject matter experts throughout the home visiting field and home visitors help inform the content, images, and videos used in our e-learning modules.
What the Research Says
Research shows that what you do to prepare for the training with your supervisor before and after a training event (live or self-paced) are two of the top three influencing factors in the transfer-of-learning process. View our transfer-of-learning plan here.
Click through this image to view your role in the transfer-of-learning process and how you can support transfer of learning.
Transfer of learning
Have you ever attended a training, left excited and energized to go put the information into practice, only to get back to your office and one week later not be able to remember the content?
Virginia trainings have been designed with a suite of tools to support you in transferring your learning into practice so you can continue to enhance your skills and knowledge based on your learning experience.
New to Home Visiting?
Sign up for one of our quarterly webinars to learn all about our professional development system and how the Institute can support you as home visitors and home visiting supervisors.
View or download the National Family Support Professional Competencies and the National Family Support Supervisor Competencies to learn more about the core competencies.