Table 1.
Examples of Key Roles and Responsibilities of HBHC Program Staff.
HBHC Program Role | Examples of Key Roles and Responsibilities |
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HBHC program managers | Facilitate and coordinate HBHC programs in public health units. |
Manage resources, staff, and budgets. | |
Participate in and collaborate with committees on family and reproductive health. | |
Public health nurses | Provide skills assessment to confirm risk of clients. |
Work with community partners to provide access to program and related information. | |
Work collaboratively with the blended home visiting team and community partners to identify and negotiate family goals and update the family service plan. | |
Identify the need for additional resources and supports, facilitate linkages to meet these needs over time. | |
Family home visitors | Support and facilitate parent-report-based screening. |
Support public health nurse assessment through observation of child and family needs and family interactions. | |
Use role modeling to support skill and knowledge development during blended home visiting. | |
Review and reinforce family goals. | |
Assist families to access services. | |
Screening liaison nurses | Provide education and training related to population health, screening, health impacts of the early years, and risk factors to child development to community partners. |
Develop tools to support identification or quality completion of HBHC Screens. | |
Create partnerships and collaboration to improve identification or HBHC Screen completion. | |
Provide support for additional screening opportunities. | |
Data administrators | Perform data entry |
Generate reports using HBHC administrative database for monitoring purposes |
Note. HBHC = Healthy Babies Healthy Children.