Professional Roles and Service Options

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You have specific roles as an individual and as a team member or interagency group.

  1. You are an EI professional
  2. Share mutual pride in Michael’s abilities as a 14 month-old with foster family.
  3. Ask what Jennifer wants to focus on.
  4. Avoid “one-way” decision-making, there are many ways to do most things!
  5. You are both consultant and a consultee – not a judge.
  6. Use the families’ full participation every time.
  7. Use consultative conversations, not mini lectures.
  8. Avoid critical judgmental statements.
  9. You are one expert, Jennifer is the other expert.
  10. Be an expert skill-builder between agency, foster family, and parents
  11. Be an expert conversationalist
  12. Be an expert collaborator
  13. You are a home-based service provider.
  14. Assume parents have strengths, capacity to nurture
  15. Use activities and concrete tasks to obtain cooperation ad trust
  16. Use your own successes: As an experienced parent
                                                      As a family member
                                                      As a member of a group
  17. Teach Jennifer to recognize herself as a “first” teacher.
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