Orphans and Vulnerable Children - CRIN

Preparing for Home Visits: Monitoring the Health of OVC

In this activity, you will:

 Help participants put together their notes on general health and hygiene for

OVC for their home visitor’s handbooks

Facilitator’s notes:

In this activity, participants will review the healthcare information from this topic and arrange their
handouts in their home visitor’s handbooks. They will also receive two extra handouts:
 Handout 4 - The Child Health Monitoring Sheet
 Handout 5 - Basic Health Information.
They will use these sheets to help them monitor the children’s health when making home visits.

For this activity you will need:

 Copies of all previous handouts from Topic 3

 Copies of Handouts 5 and 6

To facilitate this activity

1 Explain to participants that they will be monitoring the health of the children they visit. In some
cases, they can suggest home remedies, as explained on the handout, Basic Health Information.
In other cases, they should refer the child on to other healthcare services. You should review
the appropriate referral process for your community with the participants so that they all
know what to do when they encounter a child in need of medical attention.

2 A copy ofThe Child Health Monitoring Sheet should be filled out for each child that is visited
and updated about every four months by home visitors, so that the children’s health can be
monitored effectively.

Activity 8

45 minutes

Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Unit 2, Module 3^251