*Insert YEAR* RBHV Certification Institute
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The Routines-Based Home-Visiting Institute follows a curriculum designed by Robin McWilliam, involves practice with real families, and leads to international certification. The Routines-Based Model is focused on function and families. The functional approach means that practices are designed to maximize children’s engagement in everyday routines, which will lead to their development and learning. The family-centered approach means that professionals treat families with honesty and respect, they provide families with opportunities for meaningful decision making, and they ensure families’ needs are met.
Applications
Timelines:
- Applications due DATE.
- Applicant selection and notification by DATE. Alternates will be selected in case any selected applicants are unable to attend.
- $300 nonrefundable deposit due by DATE (selected applicants only).
- Full payment due on the first day of the institute (DATE).
Application Information:
Please email the following items to Kimberly Tomeny at eieio@ua.edu
- Explanation of why you’d be a good candidate
- Résumé or curriculum vita
Selection Criteria:
Because of the high demand for this training course and the limited space, we have strict criteria for admission: Candidates must have the opportunity to do ongoing home visits, ideally weekly with at least one family, even if their regular job is not as a home visitor, such as an administrator. Candidates must also have the opportunity to train others, perhaps because they are supervisors or they will be granted time to train colleagues. The more impact a certified trainer can have, the better.
Curriculum
The curriculum of the training course covers the following key practices. Participants will learn to:
- Use family consultation (instead of expert consultation)
- Use functional, family-chosen child- and family-level outcomes as the home-visiting agenda
- Respond to families’ priorities of the day
- Prepare families for parenting during the rest of the week
- Help families with parenting skills (reading, talking, playing, teaching, managing behavior)
- Use informal and community supports to meet needs
- Address family-level needs also with family consultation
- Provide or ensure emotional support
- Document what happened and what will happen and leave with family
- Use routines-based assessment to help families choose 10-12 outcomes to be addressed on home visit
- Support families in all areas of child and family functioning, using additional “team members” as necessary
Course Delivery
Candidates accepted to the training course will have advance readings. They will spend five days in the institute’s location going on home visits and attending workshops. They will practice where they work, finally submitting videos of their home visits.
Cost
The training costs $1,500 per participant (checks made payable to The University of Alabama). Participants are responsible for paying for travel to the institute, hotel arrangements, and dinners. Lunches are included in the registration fee.
Cost includes:
- CEUs for education ONLY (any/all other CEUs needed, selected participant(s) MUST obtain on their own.)
- Expert instruction in a small group (only 10 participants admitted to the Home Visiting Institute)
- Opportunities to practice with real families
- Individualized feedback
- Lunch
- Materials to use in training
- Post-Institute review of taped home visit
- Assessment
- Certification
Certification
Certification as a trainer in the Routines-Based Home Visit method will be awarded on the basis of:
- Participating in the Routines-Based Home-Visiting Certification Institute,
- Passing a test, and
- Practicing with a family and submitting two videos.