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Family Home Visiting Program
health.homevisiting@state.mn.us
health.fhvgrants@state.mn.us

Training and Professional Development

The MDH family home visiting section offers access to and information on a variety of training and professional development opportunities and related resources. For questions or assistance related to training and professional development, please contact health.homevisiting@state.mn.us.

 

Current trainings

Introduction to CUES

CUES, which stands for confidentiality, universal education, empowerment, and support, an evidence-based and trauma-informed intervention for family home visiting staff to talk about and address domestic and sexual violence. This training is intended for new home visitors and home visitors who have not previously attended a CUES training.

Note: If the event is full and registration has closed, please email health.homevisiting@state.mn.us to be added to the waitlist.

Introduction to Using the Ages and Stages Questionnaires

This training is intended for family home visitors who want an introduction to understanding the use and purpose of these developmental and social emotional screening tools. Participants will also learn how to accurately choose, score, and interpret the questionnaires correctly. A live webinar offering a combined training on the ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 will be offered quarterly. Registration is required and all participants must have access to the ASQ-3 & ASQ:SE-2 starter kits from Brookes Publishing either individually or through their employing agency. Register via the link below. Minnesota participants only.

Note: If the event is full and registration has closed, please email health.homevisiting@state.mn.us to be added to the waitlist. 

PICCOLO

PICCOLO, which stands for Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes, is a reliable, valid observational measure of developmental parenting and is the parent-child interaction (PCI) tool required for use in MECSH, as of 2025. MDH requires all home visitors in MECSH to attend an in-person PICCOLO training opportunity in 2025.

During the training, participants who work with parents of children ages 1 to 3 will learn about PICCOLO, its conceptual basis, how it was developed, and its reliability and validity. Short video clips of parent-child interactions will provide examples of PICCOLO behaviors and be used for discussions of how to use the measure effectively to increase developmental parenting. This training is intended for home visitors at any home visiting agency who utilize PICCOLO as their PCI assessment tool and have only ever been trained on the tool via the DVD training or are new to utilizing the tool.  To register for one of the available 2025 PICCOLOin-person training dates below, please fill out PICCOLO Training Registration.

  • Jan. 22 – Sherburne County Government Center, Elk River, MN – registration full!
  • March 5 - Pine County government Center, Sandstone, MN
  • April 9 – Washington County Government Center, Cottage Grove – registration full!
  • June 11 – Olmsted County 2118 Building, Rochester, MN
  • Sept. 17 – Otter Tail County Government Service Center, Fergus Falls, MN  
  • Dec. 10 – Dakota County Northern Service Center, West Saint Paul, MN

Please note:

  • Dates will gray out within the registration survey once the number of seats allocated to that specific date are filled.
  • Individuals must submit their registration using their agency email address. Personal email addresses will not be accepted.
  • If you need to change or cancel your registration, please reach out to Health.MECSH@state.mn.us as soon as you are aware of the needed change. 

 

 

  • The Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals is a free online training resource for family support professionals to learn new skills and grow their careers. Use the site’s ‘compass’ tool to assess current home visiting knowledge, receive a personalized career compass learning map, and access the relevant e-learning modules to fill knowledge gaps.  

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Last Updated: 01/15/2025