Agenda
The overall meeting agenda is below. Navigate to other pages to view additional details about the plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and other activities. You can download a print version of this agenda here.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. |
Premeetings (by invitation only, CIRCLE-HV Research-Practice Partnership and Cross-Site Study Meeting and ACF THV Team meeting) |
7:00-8:30 p.m. |
Opening Celebration and Gathering |
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
9:00-9:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening |
9:30-10:30 a.m. |
Opening Plenary: Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee), Indigikitchen A Recipe for Resilience |
10:30-11:00 a.m. |
Break |
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Peer Sharing Session |
12:00-1:30 pm |
Lunch On Your Own |
1:30-3:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions
- Building Tribal Early Childhood Systems: Home Visiting as the Foundation for Coordinated, Culturally Grounded, Family-Led Systems
- Rooted in What Works: Nurturing a Culture of Quality in Home Visiting Programs
- How Cost Modeling Can Support and Strengthen Home Visiting Services in Native Communities
- Using a Peer Network to Support MIECHV Implementation
- Sustaining the Helpers: Advancing Well-Being in Tribal Home Visiting through Culturally Informed Promotion
- Using Research to Support Culture and Language Integration in Native Home Visiting
- Recipe 4 Success: Supporting Family Health and Well-Being in Native Communities
- Relationship Before Recruitment: Creating Multiple Pathways to Home Visiting Through Storytelling and Community Engagement
- New Insights from the Multi-Site Implementation Evaluation of Tribal Home Visiting: Turning Findings into Action
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3:00-3:30 pm |
Break |
3:30-4:10 pm |
Lightning Sessions
- Family and Father Stories Driving Tribal Home Visiting Futures
- Hand in Hand: Tribal and State Partners for Home Visiting
- Advancing Nutrition and Wellness Through Tribal Home Visiting
- Indigenous Home Visitor Competencies: Strengthening Support to Families with Children 0-5
- Strengthening the National Home Visiting Workforce Through Tribal Leadership and Input
- Strong Connections, Stronger Outcomes
- Cultural Activities in Home Visiting
- Tribal MIECHV Reporting in Visit Tracker
- Indigenous Food Systems and Home Visiting
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4:10-4:20 pm |
Lightning Session Transition Time |
4:20-5:00 pm |
Lightning Sessions
- Nourishing and Nurturing Healthy Fathers and Healthy Families
- Family Engagement: Centering Culture, Community, and Connection
- Braiding Birthwork and Home Visiting: Supporting Indigenous Families Across Pregnancy, Birth and Early Childhood
- Rise of the Phoenix
- Adapting Continuous Quality Improvement for Tribal MIECHV: Lessons Learned from Redesigning a Family Engagement Collaborative
- Honoring Our Traditions and Nurturing Our Children
- Partnering to Support Native Families: Findings from the Multi-site Study of State-Tribal Collaboration in Home Visiting
- Advancing Nutrition and Wellness Through Tribal Home Visiting
- Using a New Measure of Reflective Supervision to Enhance Reflective Supervision Practices
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Thursday, September 24, 2026
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Workshop Sessions
- Honoring, Developing, and Sustaining the Tribal Home Visiting Workforce
- Reflective Supervision: Building Your Understanding and Practice
- Making the Most of your Money
- Growing Your Reach: Outreach, Messaging, and Engagement Strategies for Home Visiting Programs Serving Tribal Communities
- Family Engagement that Works: Practical Strategies for Home Visiting Programs
- How to Indigenize and Build Empathy within your Program’s Data Collection Approach
- Using Qualitative Methods in Needs Assessments and Data-Driven Decision Making
- Introduction to Indigenous Instructional Practice, Family Engagement, and Motivational Interviewing
- An Indigenous-Centered Approach to Facilitated Attuned Interactions (FAN) in Home Visiting
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12:00-2:00 p.m. |
Lunch On Your Own |
2:00-3:00 p.m. |
Plenary: Tess Abrahamson-Richards (Spokane Tribe), Assistant Professor of Native American Community Health, University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare Centering Native Knowledge in Home Visiting through Community-Led Data Storytelling |
3:00-3:30 p.m. |
Break |
3:30-5:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions
- Help us Improve HomVEE's Tribal Review! A Roundtable to Gather Input from Programs Serving Native Communities
- Culturally Grounded Approaches to Holistic Home Visitor Safety
- Indigenous Play as Medicine: A Global Collective’s Approach to Healing, Cultural Resurgence, and Family Wellbeing Through Indigenous Play
- The Circle of Fatherhood: Engaging Native Fathers and Male Role Models in FACE Programs
- Gathering, Summarizing and Using High Quality Data to Support Tribal Home Visitation Programs
- Innovations in Native Home Visiting Supported through Collaborative Research-Practice Partnership
- Parents as Teachers Cultural Adaptations to Support Indigenous Family Well-Being
- Positive Indian Parenting: A Community Engaged Approach in Serving Native Parents and Communities
- From the Land to the Next Seven Generations: Advancing Food Sovereignty & Family Wellness Through Tribal Program and Partnerships
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Friday, September 25, 2026
9:00-10:30 a.m. |
Peer Sharing Session |
10:30-11:00 a.m. |
Break |
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Closing Plenary: Dorene Waubanewquay Day (Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe) Cultural Reclamation and Healing |
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