• Plan sessions to enhance parent-child interaction

• Emphasizing parents' roles as teachers, encouraging reflective questioning, and capitalizing on teachable moments.

Goal 2: Empower Parents' Reflective Functioning

• Promote parents' reflective thinking on discussion focused on child development.

• Provide reflective feedback

Goal 3: Foster Parental Collaboration

• Co- planning session/activity

• Offering options and encourage parents to choose activities.

• Acknowledge and address parents' social-emotional needs, recognizing their impact on child development, through facilitated discussions and reflections.

Goal 2: Foster and Facilitate Parent-Child Interaction

• Promote and facilitate positive parent-child interactions by minimizing

• offering reflective comments,

• supporting caregivers in their role as teachers, and

• encouraging both intended and organic interactions.

  
  

Goal 3: Empower Caregivers with Lasting Skills

• Collaborate with caregivers to develop skills and strategies that promote child development

• drawing on family strengths

• facilitating discussions on relevant topics.

2. To impart skills to parents that have a lasting impact on their development throughout parenthood. (e.g. How to integrate curriculum delivery and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) i.e. LOC 1 families is to be seen only 4 times per year, hence how to ensure sustained impact on skills development.).

3. Improve acceptance of the family's benefit from support, even if KPIs are not fully met.

4. To attend to parents' social-emotional needs while tending to the child's needs

• Choose topics and activities that align with their goals and interests for their child?

• Develop a plan for follow-up activities and strategies that they can work on with their child?

• Take ownership of their child's development and education, and view me as a supportive partner in their journey?

1. Relationship building

Building rapport in terms of showing warmth, respect and facilitating positive interctions with caregiver

2. Recognised family dynamics and routine

Familiarity with what is happening with the family and able to ask relevant questions, builds on family routines to boost child's development

3. Joint Planning

Plans sessions with caregiver input and deliver topics/activities based on concerns raised by caregiver

4. Pacing and responsive to family strengths

Follows caregiver and child's lead in activities, observing and capitalizing on teachable moments to highlight caregiver's strengths and their efforts in building child's development.

5. Keen Observational skill to encourage parental reflection

Observes and gives appropriate feedback on caregiver's and child's strengths, reflect with caregiver on progress of child between visits.

1. Effective engagement

In building rapport to engage the parents.

2. Pacing with the family

Adaptability to family dynamics, understanding challenges without overwhelming the families.

3. Attunement to respect family emotions and circumstances

Capable of meeting parents where they are at.

4. Keen observational abilities

Observing cues from child or parent.

5. Strategic questioning to stimulate discussions

Posing seed-planting questions strategically to address child development

2. Pacing with the family to ensure that she does not appear to be too persistent or pushy.

3. Open to parental views and opinions.

4. Attuning to the child's/ family needs. Recognizes that each child and famiy is unique.

5. Boosting family's confidence by affirming and appreciating their litte efforts/ success.

• To elicit child developmental topics that are of parent's interest and the child's needs.

• To suit the families' relevance and adapt to parental characteristics.

Goal 2: Facilitating parent-child interaction

• aligned with the family's interests and sustainable engagement.

Goal 3: Facilitation Skills

• asking open-ended questions to promote parents reflective functioning

• facilitation of topics delivery/ strategies

• provide reflective comments

Goal 4: Collaboration with Families

• collaborate with caregivers on follow-up goals and topics /activities to be delivered

• Customise topics and activities to fit parents' and child's needs, understanding, personality and relevance to the family.

Area 2: Contextual Learning

• Identify and connect child development topics to the family's context.

• Encourage sustainable parent-child interaction through relevant activities

Area 3: Effective Facilitation

• Use open-ended, reflective questions to facilitate parents' reflective functioning to think about their child's development.

• Optimize session environment for authentic parent-child connection

• Use resources effectively (e.g., developmental milestone cards, SMALL TALK)

1. Building relationship with the families.

2. Aligning with caregiver readiness for change.

3. Encouraging reflection through open-ended questions.

4. Engaging with the child to acknowledge their presence through observation and interaction.

5. Recognizing and reframing mom's good intentions before introducing strategies for change.

• Ask open-ended questions that spark parents' interest and promote reflection- to reflect on their interactions with their child and their child's development and needs.

Goal 2: Collaborative Planning

• Collaborate with caregivers on topics and activities for Home Visits

Goal 3: Foster Caregiver-Child Interaction

• Support caregiver responsiveness to child cues

• Utilize family strengths to enhance parent-child interaction

• Encourage natural and spontaneous parent-child engagement

Goal 4: Empower Caregivers

• Build parent confidence to lead discussions and activities

• Connect discussions to child development impacts

• Balance comments and questions during discussions

Area 2: Empowerment and Collaboration

• Empower parents to lead discussions and activities

• Collaborate with caregivers on topics and activities

• Create opportunities for parents to ask questions and seek clarification

Area 3: Facilitation of Parent-Child Interaction

• Promote intentional parent-child interaction

• Observe and reflect on parent-child interaction to promote child development

Area 4: Strengths-Based Practice

• Explicitly highlight parent and child strengths

• Affirm strengths to promote child development

• Extend strengths with child development knowledge

Area 5: Parent Engagement and Motivation

• Ignite parent curiosity and motivation to learn

• Reflect on parents' interests and spark their curiosity

• Encourage parents to reflect on their interactions with their child

1. How/ what new insights or strategies you will apply to your work ?

2. What personal and professional insights did you gain - that influence future work with families ?

3. What aspects of mentoring experience were most helpful ?

Follow- Up and Support

1. What are your follow- up goals ?

2. How can your supervisor ? team support in achieving these goals ?

1. How/ what new insights or strategies you will apply to your work ?

2. What personal and professional insights did you gain - that influence future work with families ?

3. What aspects of mentoring experience were most helpful ?

Follow- Up and Support

1. What are your follow- up goals ?

2. How can your supervisor ? team support in achieving these goals ?

Think through more about how to support parents from the session.

Aspects that were most useful?

Supportive and understanding as to where I am at in terms of facilitation skills.

• Explore promoting parents' reflective functioning through strategic questioning - "WHY" (rational of child development) and "HOW" (empowering/ collaborating with caregiver to seek own solution) questioning.

• Refrain from providing answers or solutions, instead facilitating ongoing questioning

Facilitating parent- child interaction

• Facilitate parent- child interaction

• Provide opportunities for caregiver to reflect on this interaction

Collaborative Planning and Reflection

• Develop collaborative plan with caregivers

• Elicit responses on sensitive topics

• Ask reflective questions to increase awareness and insight

• Summarize content to return to topic or activity

Cultural Competence and Family Engagement

• Balance sharing knowledge with respecting caregivers' beliefs

• Engage other family members who interact with the child

Adaptability and Flexibility

• Adapt to changing circumstances and prioritise agenda items

• Be fully present and listen actively

1. How/ what new insights or strategies you will apply to your work ?

2. What personal and professional insights did you gain - that influence future work with families ?

3. What aspects of mentoring experience were most helpful ?

Follow- Up and Support

1. What are your follow- up goals ?

2. How can your supervisor ? team support in achieving these goals ?