Training for Home Visiting Programs
Home Visiting Seminars |
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Parent Survey Certification Seminar(Parent Visitor/Family Assessment Worker & Supervisor/Program Manager) |
Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting Seminar(Home Visitor/Parent Child Practitioner & Supervisor/Program Manager) |
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Parent
Survey Certification Seminar
(Parent
Visitor/Family Assessment Worker & Supervisor/Program Manager)
Parenting Resource Coordinators and Supervisors (4 days):
This 4-day training is designed for staff who initially reach out to offer every new parent access to support available in the community, including home visiting. Over four days, it presents the tools for actually implementing a successful Parent Survey process with families. At the end of this training, each participant will have developed inter-rater reliability in using the Parent Survey tool. Starting with building the philosophical foundation for our work with families and overall program goals, the following topics will be addressed providing practical "how to" strategies and many opportunities for skill-building practice:
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Underlying Principles: Four Guideposts for Relationships with Families
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Overview of the Parent Survey Process
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The Parent Survey Conversation
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Completing the Parent Survey
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Involving Fathers
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Documentation
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Challenging Parent Survey Situations
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Overview of the Role of the Family Visitor
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Professional Boundaries, and Parent Resource Coordinator Self-Care Tips
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Quality Assurance and Benefits of Supervision for Parent Resource Coordinators
Just for Supervisors/Program Managers (1 day):
This day of training introduces Parenting Resource Coordinator supervisors to their four basic roles, with a special focus on meeting the needs of the individual supervisors attending:
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Supporting Parent Resource Coordinators to Integrate Training into On-the-Job Skills
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Clinical Supervision Specific to Parent Survey process
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Program Management and Quality Assurance (including data system, hiring and training staff, internal quality management, etc.)
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Community Liaison
Costs
Group size is limited to 12 Parenting Resource Coordinators and/or supervisors. For one group:
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$4200 training fee for 4 days of training for staff/5 days of training for supervisors (includes per diem)
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Training materials for each participant at $50/parent visitor and $100/supervisor
(Please note: if both Family Support Visitor and Parenting Survey Training are scheduled for one site, each supervisor pays just $140 for all materials for both sessions.) -
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel and any airport taxes
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Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting
Seminar
(Home
Visitor/Parent Child Practitioner & Supervisor/Program Manager)
Home Visitors/Parent Child Practitioners and Supervisors (4 days):
In this 4-days skill-driven course, home visitors and other family practitioners acquire new tools for motivating and communicating with parents of infants and young children aimed at supporting parents to form secure attachment relationships, be involved in their child’s development, strengthen the foundations of their family and solve their problems. Concrete skills are gained through video demonstrations followed by hands-on practice with commonly encountered parenting and family scenarios.
Topics covered include:
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Why Prevention Programs for New Parents are a Wise Investment
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Building Prevention Programs that Build Protective Factors for Children
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Early Brain Development: New Frontiers
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Effects of Neglect and Childhood Trauma on Development and Adult Functioning
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Parent-Child Attachments: Ingredients and End Products
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Infant Cues and Signals
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CHEEERS: A Parent-Child Interaction-Relationship Assessment Tool
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Early Child Development: New Perspectives
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The Strength-Based Solution-Focused Approach: Examination of the Practitioner’s Beliefs and Interactions
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7 Strength-Based, Solution-Focused Strategies for Motivating Nurturing Parenting and Strengthening Parents/Families
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Goal Setting and Follow Through: Making It Interesting and Painless for Everyone
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Dads Do Matter: Motivating Fathers to Participate in Your Program
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Embracing Culture & Traditions to Strengthen Families
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Establishing and Maintaining Professional Boundaries
All GKI Seminars provide supervisors with 18-24 months of structured continuing education training modules for supervisor’s to use in fulfilling credentialing requirements and monitoring standards.
Great Kids, Inc. views the professional development of Parent Child Practitioners as a continuous process. While most training programs are content driven, the Great Kids approach to developing Parent Child Practitioners is skill driven. Home visitors have observed for years that sharing information with parents, in itself, does not generally result in more nurturing, involved parenting practices. Research has consistently shown that without an on-going reflective focus on integrating concepts and skills acquired during a seminar, training participants quick revert to their previous level of practice.
During our seminars, training participants acquire skills for motivating parents to grow their own skills. To anchor and build these competencies over time, Supervisors receive as part of their training seminar tuition, an 18-24 months continuing education program to be used with staff.
Just for Supervisors/Managers (1 day):
This day of training introduces Family Visitor supervisors to their four basic roles, with a special focus on meeting the needs of the individual supervisors attending:
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Management Systems for Launching Your Program
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Supporting Family Visitors to Integrate Training into On-the-Job Skills
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Clinical Supervision
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Quality Management for New Programs
Costs
Group size is limited to 15 Home Visitors/Parent Child Practitioners and/or supervisors. For one group:
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$4200 training fee for 4 days of training for staff/5 days of training for supervisors (includes per diem)
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Training materials for each participant at $50/home visitor and $100/supervisor
(Please note: if both Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting and Parent Survey Certification Training are scheduled for one site, each supervisor pays just $140 for all materials for both sessions.) -
Trainer airfare, ground transportation, hotel and any airport taxes
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Great Kids, Inc. offers a complete, comprehensive training package for Home Visitors/Parent Child Practitioners and their supervisors. By layering Growing Great Kids Curriculum Certification onto the approaches and tools acquired during the Integrated Strategies Seminar, Parent Child Practitioners build the competencies essential for achieving outstanding program results with families. |
Also See: Growing Great Kids - Preschool to 36 Months
