Coaching in Home Visiting Workbook: Mapping the Coaching Process

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 visitors
• Set clear goalsfor 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.

Angela Rau is the owner of ACTT consulting. Her professional focus is on home visiting, family engagement, workforce development, and coaching. She informed the Parent as Teachers (PAT) relational approach to home visiting. The first virtual home visiting program, Parents as Teachers @ USC Telehealth, was co-designed by Ms. Rau. This program was selected as the winner of the Gary Community Investments/OpenIDEO Early Childhood Innovations Prize. As PAT Director of Program Innovations and Professional Development, Ms. Rau led training design and the professional development of national trainers. During her term, she drove transitions into virtual training and home visiting. She is an active consultant for The Rapid Response–Virtual Home Visiting (RR-VHV) collaborative. She actively participates in the Start Early Communities of Practice–Professional Development: Pathways to promoting home visitors’ competence through coaching.