1. (a) Family training, counseling, and home visits train and assist the parent, family, or other caregiver to improve family functioning and meet the needs of the child with a disability when this level of support is determined necessary by the IFSP team to reach the goals and objectives on the IFSP.

2. (b) Family training, counseling, and home visits services include (but are not limited to):

   1. (1) Making home visits to evaluate a child’s living conditions and patterns of parent-child interaction;
   2. (2) Preparing a social-emotional developmental assessment of the infant or toddler within the family context;
   3. (3) Working with those problems in the living situation (home, community, and any childcare or other early education program where early intervention services are provided) of an infant or toddler with a disability and the family of that child that affect the child’s maximum utilization of early intervention services and supports;
   4. (4) Providing individual and family-group counseling with parents and other family members to support them in attachment and parent-child interactions that support the child’s social-emotional development and use of age-appropriate behavior to meet needs; and
   5. (5) Identifying, mobilizing, and coordinating community resources and services to enable the infant or toddler with a disability and the family to receive the maximum benefit from early intervention services.
3. (c) Family training, counseling, and home visit services are family support services provided by social workers, psychologists, and other qualified home visiting personnel and exclude the required family training, consultation, and coaching that takes place at home and community visits (service sessions) for all IFSP services.
4. (d) Family training, counseling, and home visit services cannot duplicate service provided under social work services or include services that can be provided by the family’s service coordinator and, or, or both EI service provider or providers.

5. (e) A local provider program of family training, counseling, and home visit must maintain the following documentation in the child’s electronic record for each family training, counseling session, or home visit performed:

   1. (1) The date and beginning and ending time for each training, session, or visit;
   2. (2) The name or names of the parent, family member, and other caregivers that participated in family training, counseling session, or home visit;
   3. (3) The name and credentials of the individual conducting the family training, counseling session, or home visit and, if the individual is not credentialed, the experience or other knowledge that qualifies them to conduct the family training, counseling session, or home visit (example: individual endorsed to provide the safe sleep training in home visits);
   4. (4) List of topics covered and any specific materials, curricula, or instruction received during the family training, counseling session, or home visit;
   5. (5) Description of the relationship of the family training, counseling session, or home visit to the goals and objectives described in the child’s IFSP;
   6. (6) Written progress notes on each family training, counseling session, or home visit, dated and signed by the individual conducting the family training, counseling session, or home visit;
   7. (7) If applicable, the receipt for the actual cost of any curricula or other instructional materials used in the family training, counseling session, or home visit;
   8. (8) If applicable, the receipt for the actual cost of any reimbursement submitted by the attending parent or other caregiver;
   9. (9) Verification of the parent or other caregiver participation such as a completed and signed home visit checklist, certificate of completion, sign-in sheet, or signature on written progress note or notes; and
   10. (10) Description of carry over activities or strategies the parent, family member, or other caregiver or caregivers present and participating in each session will do between service sessions to support the child’s early learning, development, skill acquisition, and participation in home and community activities (may be included in written progress notes described in subdivision (e)(6) of this section).

Codification Notes: "EI" means early intervention.