Orphans and Vulnerable Children - CRIN

4 Review of the Home Visitor’s Handbook

In this activity, you will:

 Review the home visitor’s handbooks with participants

Facilitator’s notes:

You have now finished your second module of the home visitor training.

At this point it is a good idea to review the home visitor’s handbooks

with the participants to ensure that each participant has compiled

all the necessary pages. The home visitor’s handbook should now

include the following reference pages from the eight topics discussed

in this module:

Activity 5

Home Visitor’s Handbook – Module Two

Topic 1: The Different Needs of OVC

• The Different Needs of Children


• Indicators of Children’s Problems


• Question checklist and Referral Information (participants’ own worksheet)

Topic 2: Psychosocial Support for OVC

Topic 3: The Stages of Development and Understanding in Children

• Development in Children


• The Community’s Role in Child Development


• Question checklist (participants’ own worksheet)

Topic 4: Counselling and Communicating with OVC

• Characteristics of a Child


• How Children Communicate

Topic 5: Accompanying OVC Through Grief and Bereavement

• Preparing Children for a Death in the Family

Topic 6: Using Play in Counselling Children

• Reasons Why Children Play

Topic 7: Spiritual Care for OVC

• Spiritual Health in Children

Topic 8: Support for Caregivers

• Enhancing Self-awareness in Caregivers

(^214) Unit 2, Module 2 Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children