Coaching in Home Visiting Workbook

Mapping the Coaching Process

Angela Rau, MAT

Early Childhood

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. Explicitly linked to Haring & Rau’s popular Coaching in Home Visiting book, 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.

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• Companion Materials

Filled with activities and exercises that prompt both reflection and action, this user-friendly workbook empowers you to design and implement a successful coaching framework 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.

GET READY TO:

• Make an action plan rooted in the essential foundations of meaningful, effective coaching for home visitors
• Set clear goals for the impact and outcomes you want to see
• Identify the specific pathways—coaching strategies, methods, and activities—that will help you achieve those outcomes
• Make the most of resources—tools, training, time, trust, and talent—that support growth and transformation for home visitors
• Examine the why behind your coaching decisions by reflecting on your underlying beliefs, assumptions, values, and principles
• Address outside factors that influence coaching effectiveness, such as funding shifts, organizational culture, and historical patterns of marginalization

PRACTICAL FEATURES: 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.

Author: Angela Rau MAT

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