Working With Families

"Creating Excellence in Family Support"

Course Length: 12 hour/s (2 day)

Course Cost: $325 per person

Course Prerequisites: N/A

Course Description: This two day seminar will be your blueprint for parent-focused support that will help you understand and use methods to build respectful relationships with families. Students will learn how to incorporate best practices and procedures for maintaining ongoing relationships with families based on trust. You will learn how to complete family assessments that can be used to develop individualized family plans. Also how coaching and consulting families on advocacy will help them become a champion for themselves and their family members. Students will understand about educating families in financial and literacy skills to become more self-sufficient. Time will be spent on designing forms and procedures to create effective family plans and implement effective record keeping and recording system to document the family progress. Issues of dealing with homeless and substance abuse families will be addressed. Sample forms and tools will be presented to help participants with procedural and process development. The objective of the seminar is to help you:

Understand the philosophy of parent participation, “parent as partners’
Become more visible by having regular and consistent contact with parents
Become effective and appropriate with information exchange
Understand anti-bias with respect to cultural sensitivity
Connect and have more interpersonal relationships with families
Select and use appropriate strategies for supporting families
Understand and use strategies to identify family strengths
Explore family growth and development through strengths
Work with families to identify long-and-short range goals
Set plans for achieving goals.

For more Information email chawkins@hsuniversity.org or call 1-(888)282-7817 for more information.