Examina cómo los padres pueden apoyar el desarrollo cultural del niño y por qué es importante para un crecimiento y desarrollo general saludables.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Examines the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, from fearful cooperation to defiance, including the zone in the middle of the spectrum called self-assertion.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores how parents can care for a child while being sensitive to his or her past traumatic experiences.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explora el desarrollo típico de un niño, los campos y las etapas de desarrollo, el temperamento y la compatibilidad, y los efectos del abuso y la negligencia en la salud y la conducta del menor.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Analiza el proceso y los desafíos de pasar del cuidado temporal a la adopción y ofrece sugerencias y consejos para ayudar a los miembros de la familia adoptiva en esa transición.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Analiza los desafíos a que se enfrentan las familias temporales en la pre-asignación, durante la asignación y después de la asignación, y ofrece sugerencias y consejos para ayudar a los hijos biológicos de la familia temporal durante esas etapas.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Un curso de pre-servicio diseñado para personas interesadas en proveer cuidado temporal, centrado en el maltrato infantil. Aprenda las características, los síntomas y las normas de denuncias de maltrato infantil. Advertencia: contiene imágenes gráficas.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Cubre la diferencia entre el apego saludable y el adverso, cómo la separación y la pérdida afectan el apego, y cómo la teoría del apego se aplica a la vida real.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explora los beneficios y desafíos de establecer una relación de colaboración entre la familia temporal y la primaria, y ofrece estrategias para crear una comunicación respetuosa y positiva.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Analiza los efectos emocionales y de conducta del abuso sexual infantil en menores en crianza temporal y ofrece estrategias para ayudar a superar los retos a que se enfrentan los padres temporales.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Cubre cómo funciona el sistema de bienestar del menor, propósitos y objetivos del sistema, términos clave, y quiénes son los miembros del equipo, así como sus funciones y responsabilidades.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores non-suicidal self-injury and other forms of self-injurious behavior. With the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants develop an action plan to decrease or stop the self-injury.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Covers fire play and fire-setting and the differences between the two behaviors.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Analiza diferentes aspectos de agregar un niño a la familia y ofrece sugerencias de cómo preservar la estructura familiar y reducir el estrés causado por el cambio de dinámicas.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Analiza comportamientos problemáticos en niños en crianza temporal y cómo los padres pueden entender el propósito de la conducta del niño mediante una observación detenida.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
This Advanced Parenting Workshop introduces the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, and explores how trauma can affect a child’s ability to cooperate.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Explores common reasons for taking things, including experimentation, intellectual disability, trauma history, and social or psychiatric problems.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores the common reasons for taking things. With the help of Dr. Rick Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants develop an action plan.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Explores how resource parent couples can resolve conflict and promote intimacy in the family through improved communication.
8 credit hours, $40.00 per person
This course covers temper tantrums, assaultive behavior towards other children, rage towards the mother, and erratic or unpredictable anger.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Dr. Rick Delaney discusses how an understanding of the ABCs of behavior can help parents ward off angry outbursts.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
In this Advanced Parenting Workshop, parents learn about the types and components of anger. Then they work together to create an action plan for calming an angry child.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Explores the emotional and behavioral effects of child sexual abuse on children in care and offers strategies to help overcome the challenges foster parents face. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
A pre-service course designed for individuals interested in caregiving which focuses on child maltreatment. Learn about the characteristics, symptoms and reporting standards for child maltreatment.
Caution: contains graphic images. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores typical child development, developmental domains and stages, temperament and goodness of fit, and the effects of abuse and neglect on a child's health and behavior. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Michael F. Quinn, M.A., uses a professional child care worker's approach to child safety, providing foster parents with effective supervision strategies and tools for collecting background information, making in-home observations, and making supervision adjustments.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Covers how the child welfare system works, purpose and goals of the system, key terms, and who the child welfare team members are, as well as their roles and responsibilities. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Dr. Robert Nickel addresses the many challenges parents of children with autism face: social and communication deficits, and common medical problems.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Examines how parents can support children's cultural development and why that is important to their healthy growth and development. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Dr. Tanya M. Coakley discusses how culturally competent parenting can provide minority children an environment that respects and nourishes their sense of self.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Causes of and strategies for dealing with stealing and hoarding food, gorging, refusing certain foods, and anorexia are examined.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores the process and challenges of moving from foster care to adoption and offers insight and advice for helping adoptive family members through those challenges. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores the foster home investigative process, Plans of Corrective Action, and the role of foster care investigators.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Charley Joyce, LICSW, discusses grief and loss as it impacts foster children, birth parents and foster caregivers.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course shows how foster parents can observe safety rules for licensed or certified residential care facilities using self-inspections.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores the challenges foster families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges. [Also available in Spanish]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Viewers will learn about family feuds, allegiance to birth parents, distance and defiance with kinship family.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Common behaviors addressed in this course include getting out of trouble, gaining attention, pathological, and getting others in trouble.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This Advanced Parenting Workshop provides an in-depth study of lying. Participants work together to create an action plan for coping with lying.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
This course explores the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Viewers learn how to use cooperation, tracking behavior, and encouragement as parenting techniques.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course discusses setting limits and behavior contracts as positive parenting techniques.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Strategies for using time-out, privilege removal, and assignment of extra chores to manage difficult behavior are discussed
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Healthy and unhealthy attachment, the emotionally promiscuous RAD child, the hyper-vigilant RAD child, RAD & other diagnoses are discussed in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores adding a foster child to the family and offers insight into how to preserve the family structure and reduce stress caused by a changing dynamic. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores the role and challenges mandated child abuse reporters face during the reporting process and offers strategies for helping insure subsequent investigations are not compromised.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Searching for roots, running from rules, running from love and intimacy, wanting to be wanted, and running to street crime.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Developing safety and treatment plans are discussed in the context of meeting state regulations and the individual child's needs.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course examines obsessive sexual behavior, sexual behavior with siblings, seductive behavior towards adults, and public masturbation.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Examines four types of sleep problems in children: fears about sleeping alone, frequent waking and roaming, nightmares and night terrors, and sleep problems and depression.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Dr. Robert Nickel and Susan Edelstein, M.S. discuss the issues and challenges faced by parents who care for substance-exposed infants, including the effects of legal and illegal drugs, multiple substance abuse, working with the child's professional team, and successful parenting strategies.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores problematic behavior in foster children and how foster parents can better understand the purpose of a child's behavior through careful observation. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Wetting as an emotional outlet, wetting as a self-defense, classic daytime or nighttime wetting, soiling and smearing feces, constipation and withholding stools and discussed in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores the benefits and challenges of building a working relationship between foster and primary families, and offers strategies for developing respectful, positive communication. [Also available in Spanish]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
What to expect before, during, and after visitation with birth parents and strategies for helping the foster child transition back to their foster home are examined in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Roles and responsibilities, entering a new school, working with the school staff, special education, and parent advocacy are discussed in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Designed for agency staff and social workers - Rick Delaney, Ph.D. addresses issues of family dynamics aimed at increasing placement stability and improved lives for children in care.
4 credit hours, $30.00 per person
The Child Welfare Team, Child Abuse & Neglect, Parent-Child Attachment and Understanding Behavior in Foster Children are included in Cluster 1.
16 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Child Development, Cultural Issues in Parenting, and Working Together with Primary Families are included in Cluster 2.
12 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused, Reducing Family Stress, and Foster Care to Adoption are included in Cluster 3.
12 credit hours, $20.00 per person
The Child Welfare Team, Child Abuse & Neglect, and Child Development are included in Cluster 1.
12 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Parent-Child Attachment, Understanding Behavior in Foster Children, and Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused are included in Cluster 2.
12 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Working Together with Primary Families, Cultural Issues in Parenting, and Trauma-Informed Parenting are included in Cluster 3.
8 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Reducing Family Stress, The Impact of Fostering on Birth Children, and Foster Care to Adoption are included in Cluster 4.
10 credit hours, $10.00 per person
