A must for home visiting programs, the updated second edition of the LSP is the most efficient, reliable way to evaluate a parents life skills: the abilities, behaviors, and attitudes they need to achieve a healthy and satisfying family life. For use with at-risk, low-income pregnant and parenting individuals with children from birth to 5 years of age, the LSP is a field-tested, validated, and reliable tool that generates a broad, accurate portrait of the life skills of parents, caregivers, and young children. Easy to complete in about 10 minutes, the LSP will help your program establish baseline and ongoing assessment profiles of clients, identify strengths and needs, plan interventions, and demonstrate the effectiveness of your practices through monitoring of outcomes.
HOW IT WORKS
Home visitors, including public health nurses, social workers, mental health care providers, and family development and family support workers, use the LSP to evaluate a variety of important life skills. An experienced professional familiar with the family records information on 43 items in eight important domains:
Relationships with Family and Friends
Relationships with Children
Relationships with Supportive Resources
Education and Employment
Health and Medical Care
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Basic Essentials
Infant/Toddler Development
Home visitors rate each competency from 1 to 5 on a simple-to-complete form, where they can also record important case data in the notes section. No judgment of families is implied--the LSP is used only to track the progress of children and parents or caregivers, and can be repeated every six months until the child is 5.
WHATS NEW
New chapter on using the LSP to promote maternal health literacy
Guidance on completing the LSP during virtual home visits
LSP Instrument and downloads now provided as fillable PDFs
Updated research, citations, and information throughout
Updates and improvements based on customer surveys and feedback from the field
Scoring descriptions updated for clarity
Ancillary materials now provided as convenient downloads
Use the LSP with ASQ(R)-3 & ASQ(R) SE-2!
With items that match the ASQ developmental areas, the LSP makes it easy to summarize the developmental data you gathered with the ASQ system.
Linda Wollesen focused her career on public health nursing and collaborative community-based services to low-income and ethnically diverse families. She worked as a nursing visitor in housing projects in East Los Angeles, nursing supervisor in Santa Clara, and program manager in Santa Cruz County, all in California. Her clinical expertise included services and care coordination for children and infants who have special needs or who are in foster care. She also supervised a research replication site for the David Olds Nurse-Family Partnership in Monterey County.
Ms. Wollesen was the developer of the Life Skills Progression (TM) (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. She founded the Life Skill Outcomes, LLC, which provides LSP training and best practice consultation and developed an LSP database for use by programs using the LSP.
