Foster Care

Coaching Services

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Coaching Services

We offer two supportive services 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. Cultivate Parenting 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
  • The rate is $65/hour. 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.

Cultivate Parenting

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, kinship caregivers, foster parents, and anyone caring for children with a history of trauma.

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.

How to Support Foster Families

While not everyone can become a foster parent, everyone can help children and youth in foster care. Your gift to enCircle ensures our dedicated foster families have the resources they need to build caring relationships with children who have experienced many challenges and need extra support.

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