SafeCare Trainer training
- After completing home visitor training and coach training and gaining experience delivering SafeCare and coaching SafeCare home visitors, individuals may complete SafeCare Trainer training.
- Trainer training requires a commitment to NSTRC to adhere to the requirements (LINK) regarding distribution of materials, support of SafeCare coaches and home visitors, and reporting of data to NSTRC.
- Trainer training includes a two-day workshop that teaches trainees about: SafeCare training methods, teaching adult learners, setting up role-plays, and providing feedback to trainees, and supporting SafeCare coaches. Trainees are provisionally certified as a trainer upon completion of the workshop.
- Following the workshop, trainer trainees are observed by NSTRC during their first training to ensure fidelity to the training model.
- Provisionally certified trainers will become fully certified once they achieve 85% or greater mastery in the delivery of a home visitor training, as rated by a NSTRC trainer observer.
- After certification, SafeCare Trainers are observed at one year following training and must complete recertification every two years to maintain
