From Assessment to Intervention: A resource Guide to Applying NCAST-PCI Scale Assessments in Home Visiting Practice

Name: From Assessment to Intervention: A resource Guide to Applying NCAST-PCI Scale Assessments in Home Visiting Practice
Start: 2023-01-18T09:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-01-18T10:30:00-05:00

This is an archive of a past event.

The Healthy Babies Healthy Children (HBHC) program is offered by public health units across Ontario as a requirement of the Ontario Public Health Standards (June 2021). A primary goal of the program is to support children’s Healthy Growth and Development. This evidence-informed home visitation program includes the use of specific assessment tools such as the NCAST Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) scales. This webinar will introduce an NCAST Resource Guide, developed in Ontario, to support public health nurses make decisions about “next steps” or interventions to offer to a family, following completion of the PCI Scales. This resource reviews how nurses and or family visitors can provide constructive feedback to caregivers, or select interventions and applicable PIPE activities.

Intended audience: Healthy Babies Healthy Children and Nurse-Family Partnership Home Visitation Program staff including: NCAST PCI Instructors, program managers/supervisors and public health nurses

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Describe the content of the NCAST resource guide
Decribe how to use the resource guide to inform practice decisions
Provide constructive feedback, including articulate key parenting strengths to families, after the completion of a PCI scale
Describe the types of interventions that can be implemented following a NCAST-PCI assessment
Select an appropriate PIPE activities aligned with an NCAST PCI subscale

Presenter(s)

A smiling Carie Eldon poses outdoors with two dogs Carie Eldon RN BScN is an experienced public health nurse and NCAST PCI Instructor, working in the Population Health Division, Durham Region. As a graduate of Ryerson Polytech University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), she has two decades of pediatric and public health experience. She has provided public health nursing support to families enrolled in Healthy Babies Healthy Children in the Durham Region since 2004. As an NCAST-PCI instructor for the last seven years, she has extensive experience training and supporting nurses to use the NCAST-PCI scales in practice.