Training Information

"Life Skills Progression™"

Who should attend:
The training is intended for all Parents as Teachers staff involved in the home visits, supervising and data tracking and evaluation.

What is covered
This hands-on-training will give you all the basics you need to incorporate the LSP tool into your program and have confidence using this assessment tool.

Home visitors use the LSP to measure a variety of family competencies. The tool is comprehensive and easy to use — in just 5–10 minutes, an experienced professional familiar with the family can record information on 43 scales in key categories:

• relationships with family and friends
• relationships with children
• physical health care
• basic needs
• education and employment
• mental health and substance abuse
• infant/toddler development and temperament

About the trainer:
Linda Wollesen, M.A., RN, LMFT, is the author of the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP) instrument and pioneered the reliability and content work for the tool with the support of a fellowship from ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. Ms. Wollesen has focused her 35-year career on public health nursing and collaborative community-based services to low-income and ethnically diverse families. She is currently the director for Life Skill Outcomes, LLC, which provides LSP training and best practice consultation and developed an LSP database for use by programs using the LSP.