Home Visitor Training

Milwaukee County UW Extension provides low-cost, comprehensive training for numerous health, social service, and community-based family and youth serving organizations year round. Training is made available to the Empowering Families of Milwaukee Home Visitation program and all other Milwaukee County home visitation programs.

What is Home Visitation?

Home Visitation is defined as a program that includes the visitation of parents and children in their home by trained personnel (such as nurses, social workers, and family support workers) who convey information, support and resources. In early childhood programs, visits are generally initiated during pregnancy, or soon after birth, and can continue through the critical first years of a child's life. The goal of these Home Visitation programs is to promote parent and child interaction, healthy child development, positive parenting skills, and decrease child abuse and neglect amongst low-income families.

UW-Extension trains over 200 Home Visitors and approximately 16 Home Visitation Supervisors per year through a program funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Familiy Services. The newly acquired skills gained by one Home Visitor reaches over 90 diverse low-income families per year. Over 80 organizations have been represented at our training sessions over the last 2 years.

Besides early childhood home visitation programs, Milwaukee County also benefits from the services of other home visitation programs. These include:

• Birth-to-Three
• Fatherhood Support
• Full Family Support
• Prenatal Care
• School Readiness
• Supervised Visitation
• Teen Parent Suppor

Training Opportunities

Extension provides Home Visitation sites with the following training opportunities.

      Core Training

• Parents as Teachers Born to Learn Institute
• Supervision and Related Staff Orientation
• Home Visitation Foundations
• Great Beginnings Start Before Birth

      Tools

• Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME)
• Ages and Stages Questionnaire

      Optional Continuing Education Workshops
      Some examples of workshops that can be offered:

• Poverty Education
• Emotional Intelligence
• Brain Development
• Temperament
• Issues in Working with Teen Parents
• Diversity Training

Check our Upcoming Events page for a list of meetings and training opportunities.

Helpful Resources for Support Workers and Parents

• Child Abuse Prevention Fund
• Children's Trust Fund
• Downloadable Spanish language materials for parents
• Milwaukee Youth and Family Development Alliance
• Prevent Child Abuse America
• Resources for fathers and for support workers working with fathers
• UW Cooperative Extension Family Living Programs Parenting the First Year newsletters
• UW Extension Cooperative Extension Family Living Parenting the Preschooler articles.
• Wisconsin Home Visitation Programs

More Questions?

Contact our staff for more information about the Home Visitor program:

Kimberly Porter
Family Support Professional Development Coordinator
Milwaukee County UW-Extension
932 South 60th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53214-3346
414-290-2421
414-290-2424 fax
kimberly.porter@ces.uwex.edu

Pence Revington
Child Development and Home Visitation Skills Specialist
UW-Extension
432 North Lake Street, Room 305
Madison, Wisconsin 53708-1498
608-262-9962
608-263-7969 fax
pence.revington@ces.uwex.edu

Muriel Davis
Program Registration
Milwaukee County UW-Extension
932 South 60th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53214-3346
414-290-2433
414-290-2424 fax