Live Trainings

Audience

This training is recommended for all home visitors and supervisors.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

This training is funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). Programs receiving funding from the Washington Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) will receive early registration access.

Learning Objectives

After completing the training participants will:

• Have strategies to address unique field related concerns around physical well-being while providing home visits.
• Know field-readiness procedures that should be in place before and during a home visit.
• Understand how other agencies handle emergency field concerns and the policies they have in place to support staff and families’ well-being.
• Understand how to reflect on cultural norms and biases embedded in field-related concerns.

Details

This training will take place over one 2-hour virtual session. This training will be offered two times in FY27.

Offering 1

• Thursday, Jan. 28, 2027, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Register Now

Offering 2

• TBD

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.

Audience

This training is designed for new home visiting staff as well as experienced home visiting staff seeking a refresher on using the ASQ-3 screening tool in partnership with families.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

This training is funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). Programs receiving funding from the Washington Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) will receive early registration access.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training, participants will:

• Understand the ASQ-3’s purpose and process for families receiving home visiting services.
• Adapt the ASQ-3 questionnaire items to align with families’ beliefs and settings.
• Be able to score and discuss results with families in an empowering way.
• Facilitate referrals for further evaluation and developmental resources.

Details

This training will take place over two 2-hour virtual sessions. This training will be offered two times in FY27.

Offering 1

• Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
• Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

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Offering 2

• TBD

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.

Audience

This training is designed for new home visitors as well as experienced home visitors and supervisors who are seeking a refresher.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training participants will:

• Understand the intent of ASQ:SE-2 questions & 7 behavioral areas.
• Practice introducing questionnaire to caregiver.
• Learn how to calculate child’s age/adjusted age, score, interpret, make follow-up decisions.
• Practice discussing screening results with caregivers.

Details

This training will take place over one 3-hour virtual session. The training will focus on children’s social-emotional development and how to use the ASQ:SE-2 as a tool to support conversations and decision making. This training will be offered two times in FY27.

Offerings

1. Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Register Now
2. TBD

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.

Audience

This three-part training is designed for new home visiting staff who administer the PHQ-9 screening tool.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

This training is funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). Programs receiving funding from the Washington Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) will receive early registration access.

Learning Objectives

After completing the training, participants will:

• Understand the biological, individual, social and societal impacts that parenthood has on mental health.
• Feel comfortable talking with parents and caregivers about their mental health, including using screening tools such as the PHQ-9.
• Connect families to resources that can provide additional support within the context of family values and culture.
• Be equipped to provide non-clinical mental health supports that are within the scope of home visiting, such as active listening and wellness planning.

Details

This training will take place over three 3-hour virtual sessions. This training will be offered two times in FY27.

Offering 1

• Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
• Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
• Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

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Offering 2

• TBD

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.

Audience

This three-part training is designed for home visitors who have had at least six months of experience working with children and families and administering the PHQ-9 Questionnaire.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

This training is funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). Programs receiving funding from the Washington Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) will receive early registration access.

Learning Objectives

After completing the training participants will:

• Develop culturally specific wellness plans and activities in partnership with clients.
• Use evidence-based mental health strategies for non-mental health providers.
• Understand and discuss medication during the childbearing period
• Develop strategies to support clients not engaged in mental health therapy
• Implement a crisis assessment and intervention plan within the home visitor’s scope.
• Recognize signs of vicarious trauma and strategies to support the professional self.

Details

This training will take place over three 3-hour virtual sessions. This training will be offered two times in FY27.

Offering 1

• Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
• Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
• Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

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Offering 2

• TBD

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.

Audience

This training is intended for new or experienced home visiting staff, new to using the PICCOLO screening tool in their program.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training, participants will:

• Identify positive interactions between caregivers and children.
• Connect positive interactions to positive child development, socio-emotional growth and school readiness skills.
• Communicate with parents about their strengths and ways to build on successes.

Details

This training will take place over two 2-hour virtual sessions. This training will be offered two times in FY27.

Offering 1

*This training is funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF).

• Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2026, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
• Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2026, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

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Offering 2

• TBD

For more information about the PICCOLO, please visit the Brookes website.

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.

Audience

This refresher course is a high-level review of the two-part training. It is designed for home visitors or supervisors who have completed the full PICCOLO training within the last five years.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

This training is funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). Programs receiving funding from the Washington Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) will receive early registration access.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training, participants will:

• Understand the different domains of the PICCOLO tool.
• Use the PICCOLO to give parents strengths-based feedback on positive interactions.

Details

This training will take place over one 2-hour virtual session. This training will be offered one time in FY27.

• Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Register Now

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.

Audience

Extended Learning Opportunities (ELO) provide a collaborative space for home visitors and supervisors to integrate learning into practice while strengthening their skills in supporting families through case consultation, reflection, and peer learning. ELOs are designed to reinforce and deepen learning by exploring real-life situations, sharing strategies and resources, collaboratively problem-solving, and building confidence in applying relationship-based, family-centered practices.

This is a screen-on, participatory zoom with small group breakouts. Please come ready to share your presence and interact to the best of your ability.

These learning opportunities are funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). Programs receiving funding from the Washington Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) will receive early registration access.

Details

Perinatal Mental Health ELO

This ELO will take place over one 1-hour virtual session. This ELO will be offered four times in FY27.
Offerings

1. Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register Now
2. Thursday, Jan. 21, 2027, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register Now
3. Thursday, March 18, 2027, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register Now
4. Thursday, May 13, 2027, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register Now

Home Visiting Readiness ELO

This ELO will take place over one 1-hour virtual session. This ELO will be offered two times in FY27.
Offerings

1. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Register Now
2. Tuesday, March 30, 2027, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Register Now

ASQ in Practice ELO

This ELO will take place over one 1-hour virtual session. This ELO will be offered two times in FY27.
Offerings

1. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, 10 p.m. – 11 a.m. Register Now
2. Tuesday, April 20, 2027, 11 p.m. – 12 p.m. Register Now

For more information or questions, contact Adrienne Matthias.