Friday Feature: Beyond Hoping for the Best: Home Visits in Impoverished Urban Areas

This week's Friday Feature:
Do you "hope for the best" when conducting home visits in communities experience poverty?

Here is some information from a Young Exceptional Children (SAGE Publishing) article by Corr, Spence, Miller, Marshall, and Santos (2016): Beyond "Hoping for the Best": Home Visits in Impoverished Urban Areas.

Strategies for success:

1. Promoting collaboration by connecting families to community partners
2. Coaching to build family capacity
3. Fostering family resilience by promoting parent strengths, flexibility, parenting strategies, social connections
4. Being aware of personal safety
5. Considering your own self-care as a professional

(pp. 7-9)

See more information at
http://journals.sagepub.com/d…/full/10.1177/1096250616674332

Call to action:
Which of the five strategies do you think you could try? 

Please share your ideas in the comments section below!