Coaching in Home Visiting Workbook: Mapping the Coaching Process

By: Rau, Angela

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.

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 foundationsof meaningful, effective coaching for home visitorsSet clear goalsfor the impact and outcomes you want to seeIdentify the specific pathways--coaching strategies, methods, and activities--that will help you achieve those outcomesMake the most of resources--tools, training, time, trust, and talent--that support growth and transformation for home visitorsExamine the why behind your coaching decisions by reflecting on your underlying beliefs, assumptions, values, and principlesAddress 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681259443
• ISBN13: 9781681259444
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
• Length: 184 Pages