Success Metrics Prompts (Youth Era original)

Source: Training Development Resources/Coaching Clients — "Success Metrics Prompts," a reflection exercise for YSS staff themselves (not for use with youth)

A journaling prompt set for a coach to define their own personal metrics for success in the role, meant to be discussed with a supervisor afterward. Starting with identifying three core values, prompts include: who do I want to be in this work and how do I want to show up; what would that look/sound like as evidence; how do I want to feel during and after work days; what are my core strengths and how do they serve my definition of success; beyond a youth's visible goal progress (which may not be observable daily, weekly, or even monthly), what tells me I'm doing a good job; how do I want to grow professionally; and how do I celebrate my own wins. Useful supervision material for helping a coach define success in terms broader than visible client outcomes, which is important in work where progress is often slow or invisible.

Professional Development: Coaching (reading/course list)

Source: Training Development Resources/Coaching Clients — internal curated list, sourced largely from Therapist Aid-linked publishers and coach-training providers

A curated bibliography rather than original content — books (Building Performance-Based 360-Degree Assessments; Changing to Thrive, on the Stages of Change; Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice; Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change) and courses (Essential Coaching Skills, Cognitive Behavioral Coaching, Guiding Domestic Violence Victims: Safety Concerns, Introduction to Wellness Coaching, Masterful Mindset, Progressive Recovery Coach Training — the latter's 12-lesson syllabus covers navigating the addiction treatment system, evidence-based engagement strategies like ultra-brief motivational interviewing and CRAFT, and accompaniment/relapse-reduction coaching). Useful as a professional development reading list to point coaches toward, not as extractable coaching content in itself.

The Sailboat (duplicate)

Source: Training Development Resources/Coaching Clients — "The-Sailboat.pdf"

This is the same Hugo Alberts "Sailboat" metaphor already fully synthesized in Emotional_Intelligence.md (values as steering wheel, goals as destination, weaknesses as leak, strengths as sails, feelings as compass, coach as lighthouse) — not re-extracted here since it's identical content appearing in a second folder.

Knowing Your Role (Wraparound/YSS role clarity)

Source: Training Development Resources/Burnout — "Developmental Relationships, Self-care & Burnout.pptx" (Youth Era original; wellness/burnout portion of this same deck is covered in Burnout.md)

Distinguishes two related Youth Era roles: a Youth Partner (Wraparound) is a peer and formal wraparound team member with lived experience in youth-serving systems, working for the youth to help them engage in their own process and express themselves confidently; a Youth Peer Support Specialist (YPSS) works with young people transitioning to adulthood — usually involved in a child-serving system or facing a specific challenge — helping them identify goals and self-advocate. Both models, collaborate with the wraparound team, and work to strengthen the youth's sense of community and voice.

Explicitly names what the role isn't — friend, parent, therapist, chauffeur, bank, superhero — while noting the useful reframe that a coach can still teach the skills underneath those roles (financial independence instead of being the bank, self-advocacy and transportation navigation instead of being the chauffeur). "Superhero is a no, but that doesn't mean you can't wear the cape."

On establishing boundaries: not a matter of when but how — a direct conversation about what you can and can't offer, what you expect from the relationship, and the limits and exceptions of confidentiality, built through ordinary conversation, group agreements, leading by example, and reaching a shared understanding together rather than issuing rules unilaterally (see Boundaries.md for boundary-setting frameworks generally). Includes three realistic scenario prompts worth using directly in staff training or supervision: a youth who says they'll only meet in person if food or coffee is involved; a youth who raises wanting to try marijuana and asks the coach directly about it; a youth who asks for a ride to and from school for a meeting. On the last one, a genuinely useful factual note: there's no regulation against picking up or dropping off a youth from school unless the coach is directly employed by the school — which the training reframes as an opportunity to introduce yourself to school staff as a peer support resource rather than a liability to avoid.

(Two items remain outstanding in this folder: "ALC 1.0 Training Guide 4th Edition 2019_Sorted.pdf" errored again on retry — over 100,000 characters, past this tool's size limit — and would need chunked/subagent extraction. The "Elena Aguilar - When You're Not Connecting" subfolder contains audio files per earlier notes in this project and remains flagged as not transcribed.)