Supporting Better Outcomes for Professionals and Families
Coaching in Home Visiting
Early Childhood

The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The expert authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.

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57327 978-1-68125-732-7
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2025 264
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The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The expert authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.

Featuring a who’s who of more than 25 interdisciplinary experts, this book goes far beyond “one and done” approaches to training and illuminates the benefits of supported practice, follow-up, and reflection. Readers will learn how to:

  • Make the most of parallel practices, in which the best strategies coaches use to partner with coachees are also used by home visitors to partner with caregivers
  • Use both reflective supervision and practice-based coaching to enhance work with families
  • Apply the principles of adult learning to build respectful and reciprocal coaching relationships
  • Implement research-informed coaching strategies that promote well-being for home visitors and families
  • Ensure culturally responsive home visiting at both the systems level and the individual home visitor level
  • Deliver engaging and effective virtual coaching to both home visitors and families
  • Collaborate with early intervention providers to support families who have children with disabilities
  • Use coaching to increase and monitor fidelity to evidence-based programs and practices

Perfect for use as a professional development resource or a preservice textbook, this transformative book will help both supervisors and practitioners excel in their roles and improve the lives of children and families.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

About the Downloads

About the Authors

About the Contributors

Letter to the Field

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

CHAPTER 1 Relationships, Precision, and Moving the Needle for Home Visiting

Jon Korfmacher

CHAPTER 2 Adult Learning and Relationship-Building In Coaching

Christa Haring, Nicole Pyle, Dorian Traube, and Angela Rau

CHAPTER 3 Coaching Families

Christa Haring and Rebecca Beegle

CHAPTER 4 Reflective Supervision and Practice-Based Coaching

Patricia Marickovich, Mary Louise Hemmeter, Angela Rau, and Christa Haring

CHAPTER 5 Coaching Home Visitors

Bridget A. Walsh., Patricia H. Manz, Hyun-Joo Jeon, and Oluwatobi Mogbojuri

CHAPTER 6 Culturally Responsive Home Visiting: Making Supports RAIN at the Home

Visitor Level

Lori A. Bass and Rihana S. Mason

CHAPTER 7 Culturally Responsive Home Visiting: Making Supports RAIN at the Systems Level

Rihana S. Mason and Lori A. Bass

CHAPTER 8 Virtual Coaching for Families and Home Visitors

Dorian E. Traube and Angela Rau

CHAPTER 9 Collaboration with Early Intervention Programs to Support Families and

Their Children with Disabilities

Mollie Romano and Anne Larson

CHAPTER 10 The Field of Family Life Coaching

Kimberly Allen, Debbie Kruenegel-Farr, and Margaret Machara

CHAPTER 11 Abecedarian and Child First: Lessons For Partnering With Caregivers

Adam Holland, Susan Killmeyer, Kimberly Meunier, and Joseph Sparling

CHAPTER 12 Coaching to Fidelilty: Implementing The Safecare© Parenting Model

Daniel Whitaker, Shannon Self-Brown, Joanne Bielecki, Michaela Cotner, Matthew Lyons, and Arshya Gurbani

 

APPENDIX

Appendix A: Reflective Supervision and Practice-Based Coaching: Commonalities and

Distinctions

Appendix B: Observing the Virtual Environment Tip Sheet

Appendix C: IVC Virtual Service Delivery Checklist

Appendix D: Best Practices for Preparing Coachees/Family for the Virtual Environment

Appendix E: Action Steps

Appendix F: Powerful Questions

Appendix G: Sample Home Visitor Checklist

Index

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Brad Richardson, Ph.D., University of Iowa School of Social Work; National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice - June 7, 2024

Unlike any other resource, this book provides a comprehensive toolkit, revealing the key to unlocking positive change for families through coaching. The authors empower home visitors to build trust, continually improve practice, and achieve outcomes with families through a comprehensive range of skill-based, practice-based, and performance-based techniques . . . this book is more than a manual; it is a catalyst for positive change in home visiting.

Angela Tomlin,Ph.D., HSPP, IMH-E®, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Stephan A. Viehweg, ACSW, LCSW, IMH-E® (IV), Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana LEND Program - June 7, 2024

Gathers together top researchers in the field of home visiting to consider the evidence base for supporting the home visiting workforce through coaching . . . This welcome book clarifies how relationship powers both the professional development of the workforce and the skills of caregivers.

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