Describe the role of a CDA home visitor and include examples of home visitors.
Learn about the important role of a CDA home visitor in supporting families with early childhood education. Discover how home visitors can ensure their safety while visiting homes, with examples of effective practices. Explore the valuable impact of these professionals within child care centers and the broader community.Trainings incorporating this outcome
Proficiency Level
120 hours courses
12 CEUs5 hours courses
Related Outcomes
- Identify the ways Home visitors take on the role of coach or mentor with families.
- Demonstrate understanding of how home visitors can stay safe while visiting homes.
- Identify the components of the CDA Home Visitor Professional Portfolio and strategies for completion.
- Describe the rights of children and families and their relation to home visiting.
- Give an example of an environmental blueprint for shared and permanent spaces, including outdoor spaces
- Describe the proper procedures of medication administration including: authorizations forms, documentation, storage, training, emergent issues, and resources.
- Describe the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential
- Identify ways home visitors work across the child welfare continuum.
- Identify the importance of documenting the home visitor's work with the family.
- Identify Home Visitor program models and characteristics of effective models.
- Give examples of tools that record and communicate critical information to other staff and families.
- Describe how to use the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment for program improvement.
- Describe ways to analyze classrooms for an anti-bias approach.
- Give examples of strategies in responding to typical child care situations.
- Give examples of appropriate sensory activities for preschool-age children.
- Give examples of ways to apply and model ethical behavior and professional integrity with staff and administrators.
- Give examples of ways to apply and model ethical behavior and professional integrity with families.
- Identify examples of how to share breastfeeding policies / breastfeeding support to families and staff
- Identify the role of play in the early childhood environment
- Describe common myths and misconceptions about time management in child care.
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