Tribal Nations are not monolithic. These Tribal Home Visiting Resources do not attempt to represent the full diversity of tribal identities, cultures, or practices, and cannot serve as a comprehensive resource for all communities.
This work has been developed in collaboration with tribal home visiting agencies whose knowledge, expertise, and perspectives have shaped its direction and content. The intent is to center and amplify tribal voices, perspectives, and lived experiences, rather than interpret or define them.
Our role is to support access to resources and to highlight tribal-led insight and guidance. This is a living space that will continue to evolve through ongoing input, feedback, and collaboration. We are committed to approaching this work with humility, respect for tribal sovereignty, and a willingness to listen, learn, and adjust.
Adverse Childhood Experiences among American Indian/Alaska Native Children: The 2011-2012 National Survey of Children’s Health (PDF): This article examines the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and discusses the impact of trauma and social inequities on child and family well-being.
Promoting Early Language and Literacy in Tribal Home Visiting Programs (PDF): This resource highlights strategies tribal home visiting programs can use to promote early language, literacy, and parent-child interaction in culturally meaningful ways.
What Research Tells Us About Indigenous Children’s Development (PDF): This webinar explores research related to Indigenous children, families, and communities and highlights the importance of culturally grounded approaches when supporting indigenous youth and families.
2024 Resource Guide: Adverse Childhood Experiences Report: This report examines adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in Tribal communities and highlights the importance of culturally grounded approaches to healing, prevention, and family well-being.
Tribal Home Visiting Programs: Stories of Resilience & Hope (PDF): This resource shares stories from Tribal Home Visiting programs that highlight resilience, cultural strengths, and the positive impact of community-centered support for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and families.
Tribal Maternal Mortality Review Law and Policy Considerations (PDF): This policy brief discusses Tribal Maternal Mortality Review Committees (MMRCs) and highlights efforts to better understand and address maternal health disparities affecting tribal communities.
Addressing Evaluation Challenges Rigorous Evaluation in Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (PDF) – This issue brief highlights innovative and culturally grounded strategies Tribal Home Visiting Programs use to support workforce wellness, reflective supervision, recruitment, retention, professional development, and relationship-based care for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) families and communities.
An Overview of Local Evaluations: Rigorous Evaluation in Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (PDF) – This resource provides an overview of local evaluations within Tribal Home Visiting programs and highlights how programs can use evaluation activities to better understand their services, families, and community needs.
Engaging Tribal Communities in Evaluation: Rigorous Evaluation in Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (PDF) – This resource highlights ways in which Tribal Home Visiting grantees engaged community members in the evaluation planning and implementation process and the importance of doing that. This brief also discusses culturally responsive approaches to collaboration, relationship building, and community participation.
Evaluation Findings and Implications: Rigorous Evaluation in Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (PDF) – This resource provides a summary of evaluation findings from Tribal Home Visiting programs, including lessons learned about culturally grounded evaluation, program effectiveness, community engagement, and implications for home visiting practice and research.
Exploring Native Perspectives on Child Development (PDF) – This resource highlights Native perspectives and emphasizes culturally responsive approaches to working with Indigenous children, families, and communities across helping professions.
Strong Staff and Family Relationships: The Heart of Tribal Home Visiting Programs (PDF) – This resource highlights the importance of strong, relationship-based approaches in Tribal Home Visiting programs and explores how trusting relationships between home visitors and families plays an important role in family engagement and positive outcomes for children and caregivers.
Supporting Data Systems Improvement in Tribal Home Visiting (PDF) – This resource discusses ways to strengthen Tribal Home Visiting data systems through technical assistance, data governance, reporting practices, vendor collaboration, and Indigenous data sovereignty principles.
Supporting Tribal Home Visiting Grantees in Meeting the MIECHV Evaluation Requirements: Rigorous Evaluation in Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (PDF) – This resource discusses ways to support Tribal Home Visiting grantees in meeting evaluation requirements while incorporating community priorities, cultural values, and locally meaningful approaches to evaluation.
Tips for Engaging and Supporting Native Families Caring for Children (PDF) – This resource provides culturally responsive strategies for engaging Native children, families, and communities in supportive and respectful ways that build trust and strengthen relationships.
Tribal Best Practices: A Toolkit with Best Practices and Resources Developed by the National Indian Child Welfare Association (PDF) – This toolkit provides strategies and guidance for strengthening family engagement and supporting collaborative relationships that promote positive outcomes for Native children and families.
Tribal Home Visiting In Action 2020-2023 – This action plan outlines priorities, goals, and strategies for strengthening Tribal Home Visiting programs through culturally responsive practices, collaboration, and community-centered support for American Indian and Alaska Native (AN/AI) children and families.
Tribal Home Visiting: Meeting the Needs of Urban Indians through Home Visiting (PDF) – This issue brief explores how Tribal Home Visiting programs support urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) families through culturally responsive, relationship-based approaches that strengthen cultural identity, community connection, family support, and access to services.
Co-creating a conceptual model of Indigenous relational wellbeing in early childhood: Planting seeds of connectedness (PDF) – This article explores an Indigenous conceptual model of relational well-being in early childhood and emphasizes the importance of connectedness, relationships, culture, and community in supporting children and families.
Contemporary Attachment and Bonding Research: Implications for American Indian/Alaska Native Children and their Service Providers (PDF) – This resource explores attachment and bonding research through a culturally informed lens and highlights the importance of strong caregiver-child relationships in supporting the development and well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) infants and children.
Healthy Native Babies Project Workbook and Toolkit (PDF) – This workbook provides culturally grounded information and activities related to infant care, safe sleep, bonding, and early well-being for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) families and communities.
My Indigenous Birthing Plan for: _______ (PDF) – This culturally informed birth preference checklist supports conversations around labor, delivery, postpartum care, and cultural practices that are important to Indigenous families during the birth experience.
Precious Moments: Tribal Home Visiting Programs Support Families During Pregnancy and Postpartum (PDF) – This resource highlights the importance of nurturing early relationships, bonding, and responsive caregiving in supporting the development and well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) infants and young children.
Minogi’aawaso (S/he raises children in a good way): The mothers and Babies Course Facilitator Workbook (PDF)(very large file) – This culturally adapted facilitator guide for Ojibwe communities provides structured sessions focused on supporting maternal mental health, emotional well-being, and healthy parent-child relationships during the perinatal and early parenting period.
Minogi’aawaso (S/he raises children in a good way): The Mothers and Babies Course Participant Workbook (PDF)(very large file) – This culturally adapted participant workbook for Ojibwe communities supports caregivers through guided activities and reflections focused on maternal mental health, emotional well-being, and strengthening the parent-child relationship during early parenting.
Navigating Seasons of Change: Supporting the Mental Health and Well-Being of Families (PDF) – This resource discusses ways to support the mental health and emotional well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and caregivers during times of change, stress, and transition.
Cultural Enrichments, Enhancements, and Adaptations of Tribal Home Visiting Programs (PDF) – This resource highlights how Tribal Home Visiting programs incorporate cultural teachings, traditions, and community values into services to support the well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and families.
Culture, Collaboration and Innovation: How Tribal Home Visiting Programs Are Working to Improve Outcomes for Children, Families, and Communities (PDF) – This resource highlights how Tribal Home Visiting programs use culture, collaboration, and community-driven approaches to support positive outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children, families, and communities.
Empowering Families through Tribal Home Visiting (PDF) – This resource highlights how Tribal Home Visiting programs support and empower American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) families through culturally grounded, relationship-based services that promote child and family well-being.
My First Ojibwe Book-Animals (PDF) – This children’s picture book introduces animals in the Ojibwe language and supports early learning, language exposure, and cultural connection for Ojibwe children and families.
My First Ojibwe Book-Family (PDF) – This children’s picture book introduces families in the Ojibwe language and supports early learning, language exposure, and cultural connection for Ojibwe children and families.
My First Ojibwe Book-Nature (PDF) – This children’s picture book introduces nature-related concepts through an Ojibwe cultural and language lens and supports early learning, language exposure, and cultural connection for Ojibwe children and families.
My First Ojibwe Book-Numbers (PDF) – This children’s picture book introduces numbers through the Ojibwe language and supports early learning, language development, and cultural connection for Ojibwe children and families.
Nurturing Body, Mind, and Spirit: How Tribal Home Visiting Supports Nutrition and Healthy Development (PDF) – This resource highlights how Tribal Home Visiting programs support nutrition, healthy development, and overall well-being for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and families through holistic and relationship-based approaches.
Sustaining a Light of Hope for Families: How Tribal Home Visiting Programs Persevere Despite COVID-19 Challenges (PDF) – This resource highlights how Tribal Home Visiting programs adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic to support American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and families through relationship-based care, cultural connection, community support, and staff wellness.
An Introduction to the Tribal Home Visiting Program (PDF) – This resource gives an overview of the Tribal Home Visiting Program, including program goals, grant activities, culturally relevant home visiting models, evaluation, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and supports for Tribal communities.
A Journey Toward Strong Programs and Thriving Families: The Story of Three Tribal Home Visiting Grantees (PDF) – A case-study resource highlighting how three Tribal Home Visiting grantees strengthened programs, built community partnerships, implemented continuous quality improvement (CQI), and expanded supports for families.
Building Continuous Quality Improvement Capacity using a Collaborative Learning Approach (PDF) – This resource highlights how Tribal Home Visitors used collaborative continuous quality improvement (CQI) approaches to strengthen family engagement, early language and literacy supports, and overall program improvement.
Holding the Gains: A Brief for Tribal Home Visiting Grantees (PDF) – This brief provides guidance for Tribal Home Visiting programs on sustaining and implementing continuous quality improvement (CQI) efforts to support long-term program improvement.
Home Visiting Partnerships Serving Native Families: An Extension of the Multi-Site Implementation Study of Tribal Home Visiting (MUSE) (PDF) – This report explores state Tribal home visiting partnerships serving Native families and highlights key themes related to Tribal sovereignty, communication, collaboration, and culturally responsive partnership practices.
Opportunities to Maximize Home Visiting Benefits for Native Families through Data and Collaboration – This resource discusses opportunities to strengthen home visiting services for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) families through data collaboration, program coordination, and expanded Tribal MIECHV investments.
Tribal Early Childhood Working Group: Summary Report and Blueprint for Action (PDF) – This report summarizes recommendations from the Tribal Early Childhood Working Group on improving coordination across tribal early childhood programs through culturally grounded systems-building, program alignment, technical assistance, funding flexibility, workforce development, evaluation, and cross-program collaboration.
Understanding Planning for Tribal Home Visiting Implementation: A Report from the Multi-Site Implementation Evaluation of Tribal Home Visiting (PDF) – This report examines how Tribal Home Visiting programs planned and implemented services in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, including how programs incorporated Indigenous knowledge, cultural adaptations, equity-focused practices, implementation planning, and evaluation into their work.
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Terminology Note: These resources use terminology such as Indigenous, Tribal, and American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) in ways that reflect the language used within the original resources and the diverse communities represented throughout the resources. Resource descriptions were written to mirror the terminology used by the authors, and specific Tribal and community names were used when identified within the resource.