Coaching in Home Visiting Workbook

<div> <p>Working with families is meaningful and complex work. Whether you’re a home visitor, supervisor, coach, or program leader, your ability to support others depends on your own clarity, reflection, and design for growth. <b>Explicitly linked to Haring & Rau’s popular </b><i>Coaching in Home Visiting</i><b> book, </b>this companion workbook helps you translate big ideas into daily practice—building a coaching framework that strengthens relationships, promotes equity, and improves outcomes for families and staff alike.</p> <p>Filled with activities and exercises that prompt both reflection and action, this user-friendly workbook empowers you to <b>design and implement a successful coaching framework</b> for your whole home visiting program or for individual home visitors. Through a logical, systematic model for mapping out coaching strategies, you’ll learn to think more creatively, reflect deeply, and design innovative practices that drive meaningful change.</p> <p><b>GET READY TO:</b></p> <ul> <li> <b>Make an action plan rooted in the essential foundations</b>of meaningful, effective coaching for home visitors </li> <li> <b>Set clear goals</b>for the impact and outcomes you want to see </li> <li> <b>Identify the specific pathways</b>—coaching strategies, methods, and activities—that will help you achieve those outcomes </li> <li> <b>Make the most of resources</b>—tools, training, time, trust, and talent—that support growth and transformation for home visitors </li> <li> <b>Examine the why behind your coaching decisions </b>by reflecting on your underlying beliefs, assumptions, values, and principles </li> <li> <b>Address outside factors that influence coaching effectiveness,</b>such as funding shifts, organizational culture, and historical patterns of marginalization </li> </ul> <p><b>PRACTICAL FEATURES:</b> Design and implement your coaching framework through planning exercises, reflection prompts, helpful tips and strategies, vignettes and examples from the field, and advice from real home visitors. More than a dozen printable, fillable worksheets are available online.</p> </div>