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Direct Work Kit Bag

Direct Work Kit Bag

The Family Early Help Direct Work Kit Bag contains a wealth of ideas for sessions and visits with families, whether to understand their world, hear the voice of the child, or to help them move towards their goals.

All of the resources, tools and activities in the Direct Work Kit Bag can be used remotely or face to face.

Some might need to be ordered and sent to you, or sent direct to the family with their permission. If you would like to order any materials or activities, please let your line manager know.

The Kit Bag is a knowledge exchange, and many of the resources have been sent in by family workers. Why not share your favourite direct work idea? Send your example to Becca so it can go in the Kit Bag to share with others

Remember there are lots of other tools and worksheets in the Resilient Families pack to help every stage of your work with a family. You can find the pack here https://ascpractice.camden.gov.uk/early-help-guide/resilient-families-practice/

Following on from that idea of 'use of self', building the relationship online with a child or parent can feel much harder than when we do our work face to face. Here are some documents and ideas for approaching this. 

 

What Makes a Good Virtual Home Visit?

Manchester Metropolitan University have completed some brilliant research with families and workers from Homestart about what helps to make a virtual home visit helpful and purposeful. 

You can find the slide pack here - its well worth a read for ideas, tips and things to think about when you do virtual home visits 

 

Communicating Online – Building Rapport 

A helpful guide of things to think about to help build and sustain a relationship when communicating electronically.  

Communicating - Building Rapport Online

 

 Thinking About Non Verbal Communication Through a Virtual Lens

This image considers some of the ways we non-verbally communicate, and how these might show up in a virtual visit. We are communicating non-verbally even in a phone call.

There is more about this in the Manchester Metropolitan University slide pack above. 

 

Having Boundaried Conversations – Webinar 

This is the slide pack from a webinar we ran for the COVID support line team and shielding callers team on how to keep conversations boundaried and helpful for the person making/receiving the call and the person they're talking to (image is of one of the slides, click the link to see more)

COVID Webinar on Boundaried Conversations

Last updated: 25 January 2021