Webinar: Boundaries and Intersections - Conceptualizing Coaching Within the Home Visiting Field

About The Session

Coaching in the home visiting field has many meanings. Home visitors dually serve in the roles as coachees when receiving professional development and as coaches for the families with whom they work. These two foci of coaching are our focus. We investigate: justifications for coaching, models of coaching, the timing of coaching, recipients of coaching, and the delivery of coaching to recipients. Challenges, both empirical and practical, to strengthen and implement coaching practices are discussed.

About The Speakers

Bridget Walsh, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, is the first author of Transforming Early Head Start Home Visiting: A Family Life Education (FLE) Approach. She is passionate about home visiting, FLE, and early childhood development.  

Mark Innocenti is a Director, Research & Training Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University. He is co-author of the book Developmental Parenting, the Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO), and the Home Visiting Rating Scales. 

Patti Manz, Professor of School Psychology at Lehigh University, has extensive research experience aimed at advancing home visiting programs’ effectiveness in promoting young children’s development. She developed the Little Talks intervention, which is used by many home visiting programs.