Coaching in the Field of Child Welfare: Recent Episodes
Northern California Training Academy
In the child welfare context, professional development coaching leads to improvements in practice, quality of work, and an agency’s success in working with children and families by: improving systemic implementation of practice; creating positive changes in behavior; and embedding professional development.
An interview which demonstrates several phases of the child welfare skills-based coaching model, including facilitative reflection, feedback and evaluation of the coaching session with a discussion of next steps.
Watch a scenario in which a child welfare professional requests coaching in family engagement strategies. The worker meets with a coach to reflect on her practice to improve perfromance.
This video provides an example of a coaching agreement meeting between a coach, child welfare social worker and her supervisor.
This video demonstrates the CLEAR model of coaching. Erich is a supervisor of a child welfare unit and discusses his desire to incorporate coaching into his supervisory approach.
This video is intended for training purposes and should be viewed from that perspective.