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Home Visitor CDA Credential2012 Edition

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Home Visitor Child Development

Associate®

The HV Child Development Associate® is a

person able to meet the specific needs of

parents and their children and who, with parents

and other adults and professionals, works to

help parents nurture their children’s

physical, social, emotional, and intellectual

growth in a child development framework.

2012 Edition of the Home Visitor CDA Credential

Background

The Council is committed to ensuring that the

competency standards and credentialing

process are always relevant, current, and

aligned with best practices.


BackgroundThe 2012 revised Home Visitor CDA includes:

1. updated Home Visitor Competency Standards and assessment instruments

2. streamlined and simplified LAT process to facilitate a smooth evaluation process

3. new publications and forms that reflect the changes


Updated Home Visitor

Competency Standards

and Assessment Instruments


The core standards are the same, but their definition

and examples were updated and expanded.

The Standards reflect current research and new trends in the field of

early childhood education and the body of knowledge and appropriate

practice expected of the CDA Home Visitor as the adult educator.

These expectations include knowledge of brain development,

social-emotional development, challenging behaviors, domestic

violence, substance abuse, networking with community

agencies, individual family planning and implementation, crisis

intervention, cultural sensitivity, and advocacy, among other subjects.

Emphasis was added on language, literacy and dual language

learners.


1. Promoting health and safety in the home environment

2. Enhancing parents’ skills to advance children’s physical and

intellectual development

3. Promoting parents’ use of positive ways to support children’s social

and emotional development

4. Understanding family systems and development

5. Managing an effective home visitor program operation

6. Maintaining a commitment to professionalism

7. Working across the child welfare continuum

8. Understanding principles of child developing and learning

Education Requirements


The revised content must be included in the 120 clock hours of training.

All assessment instruments now reflect the updated content and

performance expectations. They include

- Observation Instruments

- Interview Instrument

- Parent Questionnaires

- Professional Resource File

- LAT final evaluation form


Streamlined and Simplified

Local Assessment Team

Home Visitor Assessment Process


Candidate Responsibilities

Old Process New Process

Portfolio:

- Personal statement

- Program description

- A total of 39 essay entries (3 per each FA)

Professional Resource File

- Autobiography

- 6 Statements of Competence

- Resource Collection (17 items)

Parent Questionnaires:

- distributed and collected by the Parent /

Community Representative

- must have one from each family in the

caseload

- extensive tally completed

Parent Questionnaires:

- distributed and collected by the Candidate

- handed over, sealed, to the P/C Rep

- no minimum requirement, no tally

- content revised and simplified

Portfolio and Questionnaires prepared within

12 months before LAT meeting

PRF and Questionnaires prepared within 6

months before application to the Council


Advisor Responsibilities


Observations with 3 different families within

12 months before LAT date


6 months before the application

Observations must be 3 weeks apart Scheduling left up to Advisor and Candidate

Observation at least 1 hour per family Observation at least 1.5 hours per family

Candidate asks each family to sign the

permission form

Advisor asks each family to sign the

permission form

Suggestions for growth and improvement

given between the observations

Feedback given during the LAT meeting


Parent/Community Representative Responsibilities



12 months before LAT date


6 months before the application

Each observation at least 1.5 hours long Each observation at least 1.5 hours long


permission form

P/C Rep. asks each family to sign the

permission form

Distribute and collect Parent Questionnaires

from families, complete the tally, present

them at the LAT meeting

Collect Parent Questionnaires from the

Candidate, present them at the LAT meeting


Council Representative Responsibilities


Observations with 2 different families Observations with 2 different families

One observation must be conducted with

same family as observed by the Advisor

Observations must be within the same

program as all other observations

Each observation at least 1.5 hours long Each observation at least 1.5 hours long


permission form

Council Rep. asks each family to sign the

permission form

Interview – 2 questions for each Functional

Area

Interview – 10 questions chosen by the Rep

to supplement the Observation


Local Assessment Team Meeting


Meeting to take at least 4 hours Meeting to take on average 2 hours

Team reviews info, discusses, writes on a

Profile a summary of Candidate’s

performance and recommendations in each

Functional Area and votes

Team members reviews info and votes

“competent” or “needs more training” for

each Functional Area, discusses if there is

no consensus or if there are questions,

votes are recorded on a streamlined Profile


New Publications and Forms


Candidate Application Packet 3 HV Competency Standards Books – 2012 edition

Parent/Community Representative Report

Advisor Report

Parent Questionnaires

Assessment Application

Council Representative Packet Council Representative Report (for Observation and Interview)

LAT Report (includes Candidate Profile)

P/C Rep. voucher

CDA Assessment voucher

Statement of taxi expenditures and phone calls

Voucher envelope


Online HV CDA Renewal Application - YourCDA

HV CDAs can renew online: www.cdacouncil.org/yourcda


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