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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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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