Building a Bridge: Partnering with Birth Parents for Positive Outcomes (2 Contact Hours)
The objectives of this training are to help participants identify their feelings about birth families, identify barriers to partnering with birth families, understand the benefits of working with birth families, or shared parenting, know some ways they can forge partnerships with birth families, to the extent possible and set specific personal goals toward shared parenting
Care and Feeding at the Zoo: Using Love Languages and Learning Style to better understand Behavior: (1.5 Contact Hours)
This session identifies the five love languages of children and their impact on learning and behavior. It will also provide strategies for speaking the different love languages to children and how to help children start to develop fluency in the five love languages. It also provides an overview of how we learn a vital part of how we are each uniquely created.
Five Cs for Creating an Environment for Motivating Others to Action: (1.5 Contact Hours)
Everyone from time to time faces the challenge of working with others and getting them to take action. The session will provide participants will information they need to better understand how to motivate others to action. This session will provide a basic understanding of five steps to motivate others without using fear, threats or intimidation, which will provide tools for healthy relationships.
Shared Parenting (3 Contact Hours)
The purpose of Shared Parenting is to change the attitudes that foster parents, birth parents, and case workers have about working together in an effort to co-parent. With the help of a case worker, foster parents and birth parents can positively interact with one another to create a parenting environment that is best for the child. This training will provide foster parents with the skills they need to encourage them to act as mentors and “agents of change” to the birth parents. The training will also address how visitation can be used to facilitate parenting skill building with the birth parent.
Visitation Awareness Training (3 Contact Hours)
Visitation is an essential part of a child’s well-being and fundamental to permanency. This training will address the purpose and importance of visitation. It will address the importance of maintaining family connections not only among children in care and their parents, but also among siblings, and other relatives. Visitation will be defined and means of contact (not only face-to-face) will be addressed.