HOME Inventory

This workshop is for currently enrolled SNF nurses in the Advanced Nurse Practice Course.  

Do you work with families in their homes? Do you want to help parents and infants develop positive nurturing relationships? Do you want to support parents to develop and create sensitive, affectionate and nurturing relationship with their babies? Then this is the workshop for you!

The (HOME) Inventory workshop will explore:

• The home environment and parent-child relationship from the child’s perspective

• Consider how you can more objectively assess the nurturing and quality of stimulation in the child’s most intimate environment

• How to develop a caregiver’s capacity to provide care that recognises a baby’s fundamental need for warm, responsive and sensitive relationships that stimulate and support their learning. 

The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory, developed by Bettye M. Caldwell and Robert H. Bradley (2003) allows practitioners to fairly quickly and with a level of objectivity develop a picture of the quality and quantity of stimulation and support that is available to a particular child in their intimate home environment. The intent of the tool is not to judge families, parenting practices or the homes that children live in, but to understand the opportunities that a child has available to them in their home environment.

During this workshop participants will develop an understanding of the HOME Inventory tool, practice how to use it and consider ways that the assessment can contribute to your work with families in their everyday lives.

The first session covers the in’s and out’s of the HOME Inventory assessment for the Infant-Toddler HOME Inventory, using interactive participation from the group. This session will provide you with an understanding of the tool and how you would use it.

The second session is aimed at practitioners who use the HOME Inventory as part of their suite of assessments to inform interventions. This is a practical session about the application of the tool.

Terms and Conditions for Tresillian Health Professional Continuing Education Courses

Upon enrolment, a confirmation email will be generated by the online booking system.  When paying for courses, a receipt will also be generated.  Please check your spam if you don’t receive a receipt and/or enrolment confirmation.  For any ongoing issues, please email [email protected]

All course fees pertain to both virtual and face to face delivery.

When enrolling, please ensure that a correct mailing address is provided.  If mailed items are returned to Tresillian due to an incorrect mailing address being provided, the applicant will be required to pay postage costs for remailing.

In the event a course is cancelled, enrolled staff will be advised via email [email protected]

Refund policy

Course fees will be refunded (or transferable to a future course) if notification is received no later than two weeks prior to course commencement. 

Course fees will be refunded 50% if notification is received within the two weeks prior to course commencement.  Course fees will not be transferable to future courses.

In unforeseen and exceptional circumstances where an applicant is unable to advise of inability to attend within the desired time frame, please contact the Director, Workforce Learning and Development via [email protected]

Cancellation of courses by Tresillian

In the event of the cancellation of a course, enrolled staff will be notified by email.  Enrolled staff will have the option of a full refund, or transfer of the enrolment to a future course.

Contact details

For further information, please contact (02) 9432 4015 or email [email protected]