This 2-day advanced training provides a review of core concepts and strategies as a base for building advanced Parent Visitor skills with a focus on when and how to explore, documentation, and challenging situations. Prior to training, planning with the site assures that the training will be specific to the needs of the staff.

Costs

For each group of no more than 15 Parent Visitors and/or supervisors:

$2800 training fee for two days of training
Training materials for each participant at $20 per participant
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $150 per diem and any airport taxes

From the First Hello: Enhancing Family Engagement During the Parent Survey Process (2-Day Seminar)

Engaging families and offering them the best supports available is more important now than ever. Stresses already present in overburdened families may be compounded by economic and global situations. During this 2-day advanced training seminar your Parent Visitor/Family Assessment Workers will:

Gain an understanding of the 9 strategic guidelines for building relationships with families during the Parent Survey process
Explore 4 phases of family engagement and expand proficiency in building relationships at each phase
Reflect on what parents “hear” while working as a team to discover language and approaches to the 10 Parent Survey areas that leave parents feeling respected and included in the process, as well as by the community at large
Look at home visiting through the eyes and ears of the parents and come away with more personalized approaches to offering their support to families

Costs

For each group of no more than 15 Parent Visitors and/or supervisors:

$2800 training fee for two days of training
Training materials for each participant at $20 per participant
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $150 per diem and any airport taxes

Taking the Next Step: Strengthening Parenting Resource Coordinator Supervisory Skills (2-Day Seminar)

A forum for supervisors to share the challenges and successes of the systems they have developed is provided during this seminar. Quality management and clinical supervision are explored in more depth, expanding the toolbox of skills needed by supervisors. Prior to training, planning with the site assures that the training will be specific to the needs of the supervisors and program managers.

Costs

Group size is limited to 12 supervisors. For one group:

$2800 training fee for two day training
Training materials for each participant at $20
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $150 per diem and any airport taxes

New Skills for the Skilled Home Visitor/Family Support Worker (2-Day Seminar)

This advanced seminar provides a review of core concepts and strategies as a base for building advanced home visitor skills. Prior to training, planning with the site assures that the training will be specific to the needs of home visitors.

Costs

For each group of no more than 15 home visitors/family support workers and/or supervisors:

$2800 training fee for two day training
Training materials for each participant at $20
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $150 per diem and any airport taxes

Boundaries … Mine, Theirs and Ours (2-Day Seminar)

How do you keep the stress of your staff from flowing over to the families they visit each week? What can staff do to remain clearly focused on their goals? When families are experiencing so many challenges that are being magnified through the lens of economic uncertainty or world events, your workers’ vision and sense of boundaries can easily become blurred.

DURING THIS 2-DAY SEMINAR, STAFF IS ENGAGED IN A PROCESS OF:

Discovering the origin and evolution of their own personal and professional boundaries, as well as those of program participants
Characterizing the distinctions between personal and professional boundaries and how distorted thinking can affect both boundary setting and boundary violations by both staff and program parents
Defining the 5 types of workplace boundaries
Learning 5 effective strategies for establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries

COSTS

For each group of no more than 15 participants:

$2800 training fee for two day training
Training materials for each participant at $20
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $150 per diem and any airport taxes

Tools for Building Strong Family Foundations and Motivating Change: How to Focus on Program Goals When Families are in Crisis (3-Day Seminar)

This 3-day seminar for new and seasoned home visitors and their supervisors provides participants with a curriculum and tools for refocusing families on nurturing parenting practices, even when they are constantly confronted with challenging situations. It teaches a step-by-step approach for partnering with families to address challenges related to their parenting and life style choices. Parenting facilitators/home visitors experience first-hand how to use the Growing Great Families curriculum, which includes easy to follow guides for interacting with families with an emphasis on:

Learning about what is important to the family and using this to lay the foundation for better family functioning
Using the family’s values to support parents in making parenting their priority
Encouraging families to use their cultural practices and traditions to support nurturing parenting
Setting and working toward goals that are meaningful for the family
Teaching communication skills that result in resourceful problem solving

In learning how to frame visits within the context of what is important to the family and helping the family to stay focused on the strengths they want to pass on to their children, parenting facilitators/home visitors become comfortable with using effective strategies for motivating positive change and growth.

The strategies introduced, as demonstrated by the trainer with program families and practiced by the participants during this seminar, are designed to enhance problem solving and empathic parenting skills with parents whose early life experiences have not laid this foundation.

COSTS

FOR EACH GROUP OF NO MORE THAN 15 FSWS AND/OR SUPERVISORS

$4200 training fee for 3 days of training
GGK Modules/Training materials for each participant @ $50 per participant.
Growing Great Families Manual for each participant @ $95 (plus shipping)
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $200 per diem and any airport taxes

Working with Teens (2-Day Seminar)

This 2-day training seminar for experienced home visitors and supervisors, develops an understanding of, and skills in, working with teen parents and their families. Topics include:

Developing strategies for:

Motivating teen parents to develop empathic relationships with their children
Supporting child development
Preventing subsequent teen pregnancies

COSTS

For each group of no more than 15 participants:

$2800 training fee for two days of training
Training materials for each participant at $20
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $150 per diem and any airport taxes

Taking the Next Step: Strengthening FSW Supervisory Skills (2-Day Seminar)

COSTS

Group size is limited to 12 supervisors. For one group:

$2800 training fee for two day training
Training materials for each participant at $20
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel, $150 per diem and any airport taxes

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