TRAINING:
W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Designing family-centered training to transform service delivery

The Project

Designing a Family-Centered Coaching Training Program for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation sought to enhance frontline service delivery through a Family-Centered Coaching approach—empowering practitioners to support families as interconnected units rather than individuals in silos. The effort grew out of the Foundations’ two-generation portfolio, which emphasizes employment equity by linking workforce development organizations with early care and education stakeholders. Recognizing the lack of clarity and tools available to practitioners, I was engaged with two consultants to design a training program and create open-access resources for the field.

The Approach

• Collaborated with foundation leaders and a team of senior consultants to design a two-day Family-Centered coaching training program.

• Developed a comprehensive, flexible toolkit that included a training guide, practice tools, curricula, an organizational assessment, cross-sector partnership guidance, and supervisor resources.

• Launched an RFP process to dientify a lead organization to manage and scale Family-Centered Coaching across the field.

The Results

The training equipped nonprofit organizations with new tools and frameworks, boosting their capacity to address complex family needs. By making the toolkit and curricula open-access, the project provided the broader field with free, high-quality resources to embed a whole-family lens into daily practice. Due to strong demand, Family-Centered Coaching expanded beyond WKKF grantees to reach additional organizations and communities nationwide, helping transform how practitioners support families.