Course Length: 12 hour/s (2 days)

Course Cost:  $375.00 Members

                      $425.00 Non-Member

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Course Prerequisites: None

Course Number: FS117

Course Description: This course will be your area plan 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. 

Prerequisite: None

Learning Objectives: Upon completion, you will be able to:

• 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

• Dealing with families in crisis

• Address staff burn-out

Target Audience: This course is designed for family workers, health workers, education workers, parent involvement workers, administrative staff, managers, program area managers, directors, coordinators or anyone working with parents in a supportive nature.