Foster Care

Coaching & Visitation Services

Coaching Services

We offer two supportive services in the Richmond and Hampton Roads areas designed to help parents and caregivers strengthen their connection with children who have experienced trauma. Visit Coaching provides hands-on guidance during family visits to build parenting skills and prepare for reunification or prevent removal. Parent Coaching is a practical, trauma-informed class that equips caregivers with tools to create safe, connected, and consistent home environments.

Visit Coaching

Visit Coaching is a relationship-based, trauma-informed, and empowering approach that supports parents whose children have been removed from their care—or are at risk of removal. Unlike traditional supervised visitation, Visit Coaching is an active, strengths-based process where coaches partner with parents to make each visit meaningful and child-focused.

How Visit Coaching works

Coaches help parents prepare for visits, including how to meet their children’s emotional and developmental needs. The sessions focus on building parenting skills, strengthening parent-child connections, and helping parents manage complex feelings like anger or grief. Parents receive support before, during, and after each visit to reflect and plan for continued growth.

Benefits

• Encourages consistent, high-quality visitation experiences
• Builds parental confidence and capacity in anticipation of reunification to help prevent removal
• Visits typically last 60-90 minutes and include pre- and post-visit coaching check-ins

Locations & cost

• Services begin in an office setting and transition to locations most convenient for the family
• Services are generally funded through CSA or DSS

Expert-backed approach
Our team is trained by Dr. Marty Beyer, a nationally recognized child welfare expert and the developer of Visit Coaching. Her practice model emphasizes strengths-based, needs-driven engagement with families and is used in communities across the country.

Get started
To find out if your family may benefit from Visit Coaching, contact Amy Barbour at abarbour@enCircleAll.org and download the intake form.

Parent Coaching

Parenting comes with challenges, especially when working to build safety and connection with children who have experienced trauma. Cultivate Parenting is a class designed to support caregivers with practical, research-based tools that foster healing and growth.

Our foundational course, Rooted: Parenting Foundations & Safety, helps caregivers strengthen their parenting skills while deepening their connection with their children.

What You’ll Learn

• How to set healthy, respectful boundaries
• How to understand and  respond to behavior through a trauma-informed lens
• Ways to build secure, connected relationships
• Strategies create calm, consistent routines

This class is ideal for parents and kinship caregivers.

Get started
To learn more about how you can cultivate a home where children can heal and flourish, contact Tanya Glanzman at tglanzman@enCircleAll.org and download the request for Parent Coaching classes.