2019 Routines-Based Home-Visiting Certification Institute
Location: Portland, Maine
Accommodations: Westin Portland Harborview Hotel Date: May 20 - May 24, 2019 Cost: $1,500 per participant (Discounted price of $1,275 with attendance at 2019 RBI Institute) 
Partnering with the State of Maine’s Child Development Services.
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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.
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Applications for the 2019 Routines-Based Home-Visiting Certification Institute
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Timelines:
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Application Information:
Please email the following items to Kimberly Tomeny at [email protected]
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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.
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.
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Cost includes:
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Participants at the 2016 Home-Visiting Institute
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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.
