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RESOURCE PARENTS PARTNERING WITH BIRTH PARENTS TO BENEFIT CHILDREN
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Upcoming KWYA trainings – FREE!
Supporting children and youth in care to develop healthy racial and ethnic identities
Please click on the flyers below for more information:
June 11-12, 2015 Meridian, ID
June 25-26, 2015 Coeur d’Alene, ID
July 16-17, 2015 Pocatello, ID
NCTSN Podcasts now available on iTUNES
| ►NCTSN Podcasts now available on iTunes
NCTSN is building an podcast presence on iTunes! We have begun with ten audio podcasts developed for the Resource Parent Curriculum Online. We are in the process of expanding our collection to include a variety of topics. How to access our podcasts? Just open your iTunes application, and search “nctsn” in the upper right hand corner search bar. The RPC Online is a centralized resource for facilitators and resource parents who are using “Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents” to share their stories and lessons learned. Download today! |
Tips and Suggestions Foster and Adoptive Parents to Help Youth Thrive
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Ramsey County Community Human Services, Permanent Families Recruitment Project (2012)
Shares tips and suggestions for foster and adoptive parents that were developed based on feedback from focus groups with 17 youth (ages 12–22) from Ramsey County, Minnesota to improve the licensing, training, and placement process.
Strengthening the Parent-Child Attachment in Families Affected by Substance Abuse
Karen Gould, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. and Beth Marron, M.Ed., L.I.C.S.W.
May 12, 10:00-11:30 am (Pacific)
This webinar will explore how young children are impacted by prenatal substance exposure. In this exploration, providers will learn how to work with the parent-child dyad to forge a strong attachment and mitigate symptoms of parental substance use. The principles of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) will be examined. Additionally, this webinar will provide information on the use of Reflective Function (RF) in the treatment of young children and their families. RF supports the caregiver in managing emotions effectively so that the (s)he is better attuned to his or her own needs and can increase attentiveness to the child’s needs and physical and emotional safety.
For information, visit http://aia.berkeley.edu/2015webinars
8 Tips for helping your traumatized child rebuild trust
When a child experiences or witnesses any form of emotional or physical abuse, their trust can become shattered. Trauma survivors may have trouble trusting their close family relationships or friendships. The symptoms of trauma can cause problems with trust, closeness, communication and problem solving. These problems may affect the way the survivor acts with others. http://www.examiner.com/article/8-tips-for-helping-your-traumatized-child-rebuild-trust
5 do’s and don’ts to help foster children in school
For children in foster care to succeed in school, foster parents must lead the charge and blaze a path as an advocate, fighting for a child’s every chance. In truth, it is likely that foster students will have no other person fighting for them, since a caseworker’s workload is overwhelming, and teachers may be too busy to reach out with information or may not have the necessary information about a child’s needs. Therefore, it is up to foster parents to be proactive in a child’s life at school. https://expertbeacon.com/foster-parents-must-be-involved-school-help-kids-succeed/#.VRyq9DvF-Dj
10 TIPS for Foster Parents: To Help Their Foster Youth Avoid Teen Pregnancy
Growing Your Family: A Guide for Prospective LGBT Adoptive Parents
Resource Family and Social Work Conferences
Registration is now open for our 2015 Annual Resource Family & Social Work Conferences across the state! The conferences are offered free of charge to Idaho’s resource parents, adoptive parents, kinship caregivers, IDHW staff and other community partners.This time is to enhance the lives of our children in foster care by providing training and opportunities while building support for everyone involved in that system. Our key note speaker is Helen Timpone.
Helene Timpone, LCSW, works internationally as a psycho-therapist, trainer, coach and consultant. She specializes in the areas of attachment, grief, and trauma. Helene’s expertise is in empowering parents with information and techniques focused on understanding and identifying the trauma that lies beneath the child’s severe behaviors, creating long-term healing and enhancing close, healthy relationships.
For more information regarding the conferences and to register please visit, http://www.icwrtc.org/events/2015-RFSW-Conference.
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