Organizational Solutions
Bring Trauma-Responsive Parent Coaching to the Families You Serve.
ConnectionPlus helps organizations provide effective parent coaching in the way that best fits their needs – by referring families directly to our team or licensing the ConnectionPlus Parent Coaching Model to build sustainable internal capacity.
Transforming Care
Build on What Works. Go Further, Faster.
Supporting caregivers of children impacted by trauma takes more than a list of strategies. It requires a structured model that helps professionals turn trauma-responsive knowledge into meaningful change in the everyday lives of families.
ConnectionPlus has already built, tested, and refined an individualized parent coaching model designed specifically for this work. Rather than spending years developing curriculum, tools, training, and supervision systems from scratch, your organization can build on what we have learned and expand effective support for families more quickly.
Through the ConnectionPlus licensing model, organizations train and certify their own professionals to deliver parent coaching using our model, curriculum, tools, and resources, with ongoing supervision from ConnectionPlus to support quality, fidelity, and continued growth.
91% felt more equipped to help their child address complex mental and behavioral health challenges.
81% of caregivers who completed our model reported changing their minds about disrupting a placement.
Investing in Stability
Caregiver Support
Is a Stability Strategy
Organizations invest significant time, staff capacity, and resources in recruiting, training, and licensing foster families. Depending on the state and licensing process, agencies invest an estimated $7,000–$10,000+ per foster home, with many organizations reporting even higher true costs once attrition is considered. When caregivers leave or placements disrupt, the financial cost is compounded by the hidden costs of disruptions such as poorer safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children.
Early, individualized parent coaching helps caregivers navigate complex challenges before overwhelm becomes crisis – strengthening caregiver capacity, supporting retention, and protecting placement stability.
Finding the Right
Two Ways to Bring Parent Coaching to Your Families
Parent coaching can be delivered through two organizational pathways. ConnectionPlus would love to consult with your organization to determine which approach makes the most sense based on the number of families you serve, your available personnel, staff qualifications, program goals, and projected costs.
Pathway 1
Refer Families to ConnectionPlus
For organizations that need flexible access to parent coaching without building an internal program, families can be referred directly to ConnectionPlus and matched with an experienced parent coach.
Train
Learn what makes the ConnectionPlus Parent Coaching Model effective, comprehensive, and adaptable through comprehensive initial training. Coaches receive full access to the slide decks, LMS training courses, and resource library needed to prepare for implementation. Includes both asynchronous modules and live-virtual sessions that allow for collaborative conversations about implementation.
Pathway 2
License the ConnectionPlus Model
Once initial training is complete, coaches begin using the model within their organization while receiving ongoing supervision and evaluation from ConnectionPlus.
For organizations serving enough families to support an internal program, licensing may be the more cost-effective long-term strategy. Your organization can develop its own licensed parent coaches while building sustainable capacity within your existing team.
Implement
Bring the ConnectionPlus Parent Coaching Model into your organization with licensed access to custom-created curriculum and an extensive resource library for use with caregivers, families, and your broader team.
Supervise
Receive ongoing support as coaches put the model into practice. Licensed coaches participate in a minimum of two supervision meetings each month, helping them strengthen their skills while supporting quality and model fidelity.
Certify
Coaches are evaluated following initial training and the certification process. Continued participation and final certification are based on meeting ConnectionPlus supervision, participation, and performance standards.
Implementation, supervision, and certification development happen together throughout Phase 2.
Ready to Build Your Organization's Capacity?
Is This a Fit for Your Organization?
Designed for organizations that:
- Serve foster, kinship, adoptive, or reunifying families
- Want to increase stability of placements and capacity of foster and adoptive parents
- Employ professionals who work directly with children and caregivers
- Are committed to ongoing supervision, model fidelity, and outcome measurement
Coaches should hold an active trauma-informed certification, provide direct services to families, and remain employed by their organization throughout the certification process. A master’s degree in social work or a related field, along with relevant professional experience and experience with foster and/or adoptive children and families, is recommended.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Licensing allows your organization to train and certify its own professionals to provide individualized parent coaching using the ConnectionPlus model. Licensed organizations receive access to our coaching framework, curriculum, practical tools, and resource library, along with ongoing supervision and support from ConnectionPlus.
The model is designed for organizations that work directly with foster, kinship, adoptive, or reunifying families and want to build sustainable parent coaching capacity within their own team. The strongest partners are committed to trauma-responsive care, ongoing supervision, model fidelity, and measuring outcomes for the families they serve.
Participants must be employed by the licensing organization, work directly with foster, kinship, or adoptive families, and hold an active trauma-informed certification. A master’s degree in social work or a related field, relevant professional experience, and professional or lived experience with foster or adoptive families are recommended. ConnectionPlus reviews and approves each participant before enrollment.
Licensing takes place in two phases. Phase 1 provides comprehensive initial training in the ConnectionPlus Parent Coaching Model. In Phase 2, coaches begin implementing the model with licensed access to ConnectionPlus curriculum and resources while participating in ongoing supervision, evaluation, and certification development.
Licensed coaches participate in a minimum of two supervision meetings each month during the supervision phase. ConnectionPlus provides continued guidance, case consultation, and evaluation to help coaches strengthen their practice while supporting quality and model fidelity.
Licensed coaches receive ongoing access to ConnectionPlus training materials, custom-created curriculum, and an extensive resource library. These materials can support direct parent coaching as well as training for staff, volunteers, board members, caregivers, children, and families served by the licensing organization, within the terms of the licensing agreement.
Coaches are formally evaluated following initial training and quarterly thereafter for a minimum of 12 months. Continued participation and final certification depend on meeting ConnectionPlus supervision, participation, and performance standards. Completion of training alone does not guarantee certification.
Organizations are required to administer a set of pre- and post-intervention assessments with families served through the model. De-identified, aggregate data is shared with ConnectionPlus to evaluate outcomes, strengthen implementation, and support the model’s continued improvement. The licensing organization is responsible for the cost of the required assessment instruments.
Explore If Licensing Is a Fit
Bethany Hall, MSN, FNP-C, is the Director of Training at ConnectionPlus. Her team is happy to follow up to answer questions and discuss next steps.
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