COACHING IN AN EXECUTIVE FUNCTION FRAMEWORK

In a coach-client partnership, clients are empowered to create their own goals and to then work together with a coach to create action steps to accomplish those goals. A coaching session is client-driven and focused on strengths. The coach helps the client to obtain the relevant tools, knowledge and resources necessary for them to flourish.

In an executive function framework, coaches pay close attention to the executive function skills that are needed to help participants successfully achieve the goals they set for themselves – and help participants to strengthen those skills throughout the coaching process.  There is also an intentional focus on helping participants to break goals into small steps, develop detailed plans, and provide support that can help reduce the demand on executive function skills.  An executive function-informed coaching approach also helps individuals to regularly assess how they are doing so they can learn from their experiences and strengthen their self-monitoring skills.

RESOURCES

FAMILY-CENTERED COACHING: A TOOLKIT TO TRANSFORM PRACTICES AND ENGAGE FAMILIES (107 pages)
The Prosperity Agenda.

The Family-Centered Coaching Toolkit provides tactics, tools, and resources to aid human service programs and professionals to incorporate a more holistic approach in their service delivery to families. A Family-Centered Coach works one-on-one with a participant in a mutual partnership to help the family identify and achieve their goals. This video, Meeting Families Where They Are - at Maricopa County (AZ), provides an introduction to Family-Centered Coaching and what it means for working with families.

​The Family-Centered Coaching Toolkit focuses on 3 key points:
  1. The participant or parent is the expert on their and their families' lives.  Therefore, they lead and develop goals and the agenda in Family-Centered coaching.
  2. Family-centered coaching aims to serve the whole family rather than an individual in a family.  
  3. Family-centered coaching utilizes trauma-informed care, executive skills, and behavioral economics while understanding systemic failures and inequities in society that families must navigate and overcome to improve their outcomes.
COACHING FOR ECONOMIC MOBILITY (23 pages)
EMPath. By Nicki Ruiz de Luzuriaga, MPA.

​EMPath developed the Mobility Mentoring® program to help individuals move towards greater economic mobility. Mobility Mentoring® professionals partner with participants to grow their skills and increase their access to resources in their move towards economic independence.

​This guide introduces the reader to the coaching process, including how “mobility coaching” differs from other forms of coaching models.  It also provides guidelines for hiring, training and effectively support coaches. It presents the Bridge to Self-Sufficiency® as a framework for coach and participant to collaboratively examine family stability, well-being, education/training, financial management and employment/career management -- and to track progress in these inter-related domains overtime.
EMPLOYMENT COACHING FOR TANF AND RELATED POPULATIONS (6 pages)
Mathematica. By Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell.

​This brief describes coaching methods being used to strengthen self-regulation skills to meet employment goals. It emphasizes the importance of self-regulation skills in the labor market and describes how poverty can hamper participants from fully using them. The brief then describes the key elements of coaching, how it can improve employment outcomes and ongoing studies to test the effectiveness of this model.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
This site is the product of a collaboration between Center on Budget & Policy Priorities (CBPP)  and Global Learning Partners (GLP), made possible through support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.