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Resource to Identify Relational Communication Techniques in Home Visiting

Techniques are intentional, observable actions by a home visitor to support a family. HARC recently released a new resource to help collaborative research and evaluation teams define, discuss, and measure techniques within home visiting interventions, making it easier to identify, test, and spread promising strategies more accurately and efficiently. The new Relational Communication Techniques Taxonomy includes 40 techniques with definitions. It draws on evidence about strategies for communicating and building and maintaining relationships with families in home visiting, as well as an existing schema of delivery styles used by practitioners in related professions. It was developed with input from a range of partners, including home visiting practitioners, model representatives, and researchers. These techniques are important to family engagement and may help explain variation in home visiting effectiveness.