The Institute offers home visitors everywhere the opportunity to learn new skills & grow their careers.
Through engaging, online training modules & a personalized learning map, professionals take charge of their growth & advancement.
17/06/2026
Some home visitors are remembered for what they taught. Erica Smith is remembered for how she made families feel during the hardest seasons of their lives. NHVW nominee Erica Smith.
For seven years, Erica has consistently served families facing the highest levels of stress, including domestic violence, CPS involvement, child developmental delays and disabilities, military deployment, and social isolation.
📣Calling all family support organizations! Imagine providing top-tier training and resources to your team without the challenge of building it from the ground up.
That’s where the Institute’s Customized Professional Solutions come in.
As your partner in the field, the Institute will help make your professional training dream a reality with customized trainings, your own learning management platform, access to a speakers bureau and more.
Learn more and get started: www.theinstitutefsp.org
15/06/2026
JOIN US IN JULY! Practice & Purpose is a monthly casual conversation series designed for home visiting professionals to share experiences, explore best practices, and grow together in community. We'll facilitate engaging discussions and peer connections. Participants will gain practical insights and renewed inspiration to support children and families.
**THIS SESSION IS FOR HOME VISITORS ONLY**
There are 2 sessions each month: One session is designed for home visitors to connect and share, the second session is for supervisors.
July's Topic: When Practice & Policy Collide
We will share and discuss common ethical issues that may pop up during home visits. We will focus on situations where the everyday practice of home visiting contradicts policies (for example: accepting food from a family you are visiting). Let's discuss how you handle these situations and how policies and practices collide. Join us!
🟠 July 7: Home Visitors REGISTER---> https://institutefsp.org/events/9pdyIw
Event will take place at 3:00pm Eastern on Zoom. Click links to learn more and REGISTER. You can also find these events on the Institute!
15/06/2026
Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center Wednesday, June 24 for Episode 4: Pride in Action — How Parents of LGBTQ2IA+ Youth Can Change the World
June 24, 2026, 5 pm ET/ 2 pm PT
This session focuses on the power of community and collective action to drive real change. Parent advocates from across the country will share how connection, pride, and organizing have translated into meaningful advocacy — helping families move from isolation to belonging. Panelists will discuss how skills built throughout the series show up in real-world advocacy and systems change. Participants will leave grounded, energized, and equipped with concrete pathways to take action alongside a national community of parents leading with pride.
REGISTER FOR FREE:
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: LGBTQ2IA+ Families: Parenting with Pride / Familias LGBTQ2IA+: Paternidad con orgullo. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This virtual conversation series is designed to support LGBTQ2IA+ parents and caregivers as they build communication skills, strengthen emotional well-being, harness the power of lived experience, and connect with a broader movement of families leading with pride. Register for one or all webinars. A...
Taking the National Certification Exam can be daunting, but there's no better place to start than the Pre-Assessment! 📍
This practice exam is designed to assess your current knowledge and informs which modules you might need to brush up on. Your results are then accessed through a personalized learning journey called the Career Compass.
Find what you need to know here: https://institutefsp.org/preassessmentfaq
11/06/2026
You are critical support for families across the nation! Home visitors develop strong, trusting relationships with families to provide them with the information, resources, and support they need to thrive, directly in their homes. - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Let your home visiting Career Compass guide the way! 🧭
After you take the Pre-Assessment, you can begin to understand your competencies and gaps as a family support professional in a whole new way. This personalized learning pathway will guide you to the right modules for you, so you can focus on passing the Certification Exam.
https://institutefsp.org/compasses
09/06/2026
This August, we’ll be joining our home visiting colleagues in Michigan and Georgia to deliver keynotes and workshops. In Michigan, we will be presenting RESPECT – You’ve Earned It!, a session focused on valuing and strengthening the workforce. In Georgia, we’ll be leading Into the Fire: Sustaining the Home Visiting Workforce, focusing on resilience, boundaries, and workforce sustainability.
We were also honored to have spent time with our home visiting friends in Washington last month, where we delivered Into the Fire through TWO statewide webinars!
Looking ahead, we’ll be attending the Parents as Teachers National Center International Conference in Portland, Oregon this fall. We will be offering both a pre-conference session and a workshop, and you will also find our booth in the exhibit hall. Stop by and see us—we always enjoy reconnecting with longtime friends and meeting new ones!
Interested in bringing training or a keynote to your area? We’d love to hear from you. Reach out and let’s start the conversation. 🧡
08/06/2026
This summer, our registration system will be updated to include a new question about your hourly wage. Collecting this information is a critical step toward creating system-wide change around compensation in the home visiting field. Reliable data helps us tell the story of our workforce and advocate for the recognition and compensation that home visiting professionals deserve.
When the new fields are added, you will be prompted to update your registration information and provide your hourly wage. We take data protection seriously, and you can be confident that your confidentiality will be protected.
We know your time is valuable, so thank you in advance for taking a few minutes to update your information when prompted. Your participation will make a meaningful difference for the entire home visiting workforce. 🧡
Stay tuned! www.institutefsp.org
02/06/2026
In July, we’re kicking off our new monthly conversation series, Practice & Purpose! This series is designed for home visiting professionals to share experiences, explore best practices, and grow together in community. The Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals () will facilitate casual, engaging discussions and peer connections. Participants will gain practical insights and renewed inspiration to support children and families. There will be 2 sessions each month: One session is designed for home visitors to connect and share, the second session is only for supervisors. (These sessions will NOT be recorded.)
🟠 July’s Topic: When Practice & Policy Collide
We will share and discuss common ethical issues that may pop up during home visits. We will focus on situations where the everyday practice of home visiting contradicts policies (for example: accepting food from a family you are visiting). Let's discuss how you handle these situations and how policies and practices collide. Join us!
🟠 July 7: Home Visitors REGISTER---> https://institutefsp.org/events/9pdyIw
🟠 July 8: Supervisors REGISTER---> https://institutefsp.org/events/ituIcg
Event will take place at 3:00pm Eastern on Zoom. Click links to learn more and REGISTER. You can also find these events on the Institute!