🔒 Sexual and Reproductive Health | Postnatal Contraception
Resources to support your practice and expand your knowledge and understanding of postnatal contraception, sexual and reproductive health. You will find e-learning, resources to support practice and share with families, and voices of those with lived-experience. We are grateful for the support of Public Health England Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV Innovation Fund to develop these resources.
Little Sparks, Big Starts
This e-learning has been adapted from Kindred² SEEN (Secondary Education around Early Neurodevelopment) Programme, originally created to introduce early brain development to young people through the science curriculum. Building on this foundation, the content has been re-shaped for the health visiting to support practitioners in their everyday work with families.
🔒 Healthy Weight Healthy Nutrition, Oral Health and Physical Activity | Toolkit
This is a digital online interactive toolkit that contains resources in a variety of formats to support health visitors and their teams in practice with assessing and promoting HWHN, oral health and physical activity with families. All resources have been quality assured and ethically reviewed. The toolkit has been co-designed with health visitors, their teams and subject experts and contains resources on four topics nutrition, weight, oral health and physical activity.
🔒 Our Air, My lungs Respiratory Health
Here you can access a suite of resources to support your practice, including both professional and parent-facing resources. If you are an Ambassador, you can also access additional materials to support you in your Ambassador role, including the delivery of your awareness sessions.
🔒 Motor Development Toolkit
Here you can access an interactive e-learning programme and a suite of resources to support your practice, including both professional and parent-facing resources. If you are an Ambassador, you can also access additional materials to support you in your Ambassador role, including the delivery of your awareness sessions. We acknowledge the sponsorship from Novartis UK who supported the development of this resource.
🔒 Changing Conversations | Domestic Abuse Toolkit
Here you can access a suite of resources to support your practice, including both professional and parent-facing resources. Thank you to The For Baby’s Sake Trust for partnering with the iHV in this work and their support to develop the toolkit and resources. The iHV and The For Baby’s Sake Trust thank the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport & Community Match Challenge Fund for financial support.
🔒 Let's Talk Heart Health
Health visitors and their teams are uniquely placed to work in partnership with families, through their universal reach to support early intervention and prevention of cardiovascular risk during the antenatal, postnatal and inter-pregnancy periods. The Let’s Talk Heart Health programme comprises of two core modules and four health topic modules to support you in engaging in helpful conversations with families about current and future cardiovascular disease (CVD) risks for the whole family. There are also a range of resources and fact sheets within the Let’s Talk Heart Health Resources Bank for you to download and use.
🔒 Neonatal Families e-learning
This session aims to raise awareness of the health visitor’s role in supporting sick and preterm babies. We are deeply grateful to all the parents of babies who have been on neonatal units who generously shared their experiences to produce this resource - all the views and quotes presented throughout this e-learning were gathered during this insight work. Developed by the Institute of Health Visiting in partnership with Tiny Lives Trust.
🔒 Brush DJ
This course has been designed to give you evidence-based knowledge to share with parents and carers to help them look after their children’s teeth. The information includes tips and advice on how to support parents and also aims to increase your knowledge and confidence about children's oral health. The course contains lots of short videos and should take you under 1 hour to complete. This course has been developed by the University of Manchester School of Dentistry and was funded by Health Innovation Manchester.
