El curso trata la educación pos preparatoria y cómo los padres de apoyo pueden ayudar a jóvenes del sexto al décimo grado a prepararse para ella. (Para los padres en California, este curso equivale al programa Convertir Sueños en Títulos, Curso de Educación 1). [Spanish version of "Preparing Teens for Postsecondary Education"]
Explores how parents can use motivational interviewing techniques to help build trust with the youth in their home, engage them in conversation, and encourage behavior change. Designed for parents of teens, but may be helpful for parents of younger youth as well.
Explores common eating and food issues for children in care, including hoarding food and excessive eating, eating food from unhealthy sources, overweight and obesity, and picky eating.
In these expanded courses, participants will share their ideas in online discussion boards, submit short answers to assigned questions, and develop strategies for addressing children's behaviors. Like other FPC courses, these workshops are available online, 24/7. Parents can log in and out at their convenience and will have 30 days to complete the workshop.
Before enrolling in an Advanced Parenting Workshop, please keep in mind:
You will be required to submit short assignments to a teaching assistant and to participate in the in-course discussion boards.
The teaching assistant must review and approve your work before you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
After all work has been satisfactorily submitted, it may take up to 2 business days before your Certificate of Completion is available.
Completion of a workshop yields 6 training credits and a Certificate of Completion.
Lying (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
Workshop participants learn about the types of lying and why children lie. Then they look at the case of a 16-year-old boy who lies constantly, and at his foster parents' reaction. With the help of Dr. Richard Delaney and his teaching assistants, participants work together to develop an action plan for the parents, with concrete steps for coping with and curbing the boy's chronic lying.
Problematic Sexual Behaviors (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
When children in care demonstrate a sexual behavior, it can be difficult for resource parents to understand. This Advanced Parenting Workshop addresses problematic sexual behavior in children in care. Several family studies are presented and, with the help of Dr. Silovsky and the teaching assistant, participants learn how to determine whether a child's sexual behavior is problematic and how to respond to a child's sexual behavior.
Self-Injury (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
Children and teens who self-injure often do so as a way to cope with past trauma or current stress, and to communicate strong emotions. This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores non-suicidal self-injury and other forms of self-harm, including high-risk behavior and hair-pulling. Several short case studies and one in-depth case study are presented and, with the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants use the Trauma-Sensitive Review Form to understand the children's behavior and develop an action plan.
Social & Physical Aggression (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
It is complicated for parents to know how to handle children who act aggressively towards adults or other children. Two in-depth family studies are presented and, with the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants use the Social Information Processing (SIP) approach to understand aggressive behavior and support their children.
Taking Things without Permission (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores the common reasons for taking things. Two case studies are presented, and participants work together to determine the reasons behind the children's taking things and how their parents can teach them more acceptable behaviors. With the help of Dr. Rick Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants then develop an action plan for one case family.
Understanding Noncompliance (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This Advanced Parenting Workshop introduces the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, and explores how trauma can affect a child's ability to cooperate. Two family studies are presented and, with the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants use the Trauma-Sensitive Review Form to understand the children's behavior.
Explores common mental health issues for children entering care, how disorders are diagnosed and treated, and how parents can work with professionals to support their children's mental health needs. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores common physical health issues for children entering care, and how parents can collaborate with health care providers to support their children's medical needs. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores common eating and food issues for children in care, including hoarding food and excessive eating, eating food from unhealthy sources, overweight and obesity, and picky eating.
Explores escalation, its causes, and strategies for de-escalation. Before taking this course, it is strongly recommended that trainees take Trauma-Informed Parenting. [Also available in Spanish]
Examines the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, from fearful cooperation to defiance, including the zone in the middle of the spectrum called self-assertion.
Examines four types of sleep problems in children: fears about sleeping alone, frequent waking and roaming, nightmares and night terrors, and sleep problems and depression.
Explores commercial sexual exploitation of children, what it is, and how parents can recognize signs that a child is being sexually exploited. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores how parents can use motivational interviewing techniques to help build trust with the youth in their home, engage them in conversation, and encourage behavior change. Designed for parents of teens, but may be helpful for parents of younger youth as well.
Explores the emotional and behavioral effects of child sexual abuse on children in care and offers strategies to help overcome the challenges foster parents face. [Also available in Spanish]
A pre-service course designed for individuals interested in caregiving which focuses on child maltreatment. Learn about the characteristics, symptoms and reporting standards for child maltreatment. Caution: contains graphic images. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores typical child development, developmental domains and stages, temperament and goodness of fit, and the effects of abuse and neglect on a child's health and behavior. [Also available in Spanish]
Michael F. Quinn, M.A., uses a professional childcare worker's approach to child safety, providing foster parents with effective supervision strategies and tools for collecting background information, making in-home observations, and making supervision adjustments.
Examines how parents can support children’s cultural differences, including differences in customs, beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity, and why that is important to healthy growth and development. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores the process and challenges of moving from foster care to adoption and offers insight and advice for helping adoptive family members through those challenges. [Also available in Spanish]
Charley Joyce, LICSW, discusses grief and loss related to removal and placement of a child, and how grief and loss impacts the child, birth parents, and foster caregivers. [Also available in Spanish]
This course explores the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores postsecondary education and how resource parents can help youth in grades 6 to 10 prepare for it. (For parents in California, this course is equivalent to Turning Dreams into Degrees, Education Course 1.) [Also available in Spanish]
Explores adding a foster child to the family and offers insight into how to preserve the family structure and reduce stress caused by a changing dynamic. [Also available in Spanish]
Dr. Robert Nickel and Susan Edelstein, M.S. discuss the issues and challenges faced by parents who care for substance-exposed infants, including the effects of legal and illegal drugs, multiple substance abuse, working with the child's professional team, and successful parenting strategies. [Also available in Spanish]
Covers how the child welfare system works, purpose and goals of the system, key terms, who the child welfare team members are, as well as their roles and responsibilities, and includes a bonus section on supporting sibling relationships of children in care. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores the challenges foster families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores the role and challenges mandated child abuse reporters face during the reporting process and offers strategies for helping ensure subsequent investigations are not compromised. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores problematic behavior in foster children and how foster parents can better understand the purpose of a child's behavior through careful observation. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores the benefits and challenges of building a working relationship between foster and primary families, and offers strategies for developing respectful, positive communication. [Also available in Spanish]
What to expect before, during, and after visitation with birth parents and strategies for helping the foster child transition back to their foster home are examined in this course.
Explores the emotional and behavioral effects of child sexual abuse on children in care and offers strategies to help overcome the challenges foster parents face. [Also available in Spanish]
A pre-service course designed for individuals interested in caregiving which focuses on child maltreatment. Learn about the characteristics, symptoms and reporting standards for child maltreatment. Caution: contains graphic images. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores typical child development, developmental domains and stages, temperament and goodness of fit, and the effects of abuse and neglect on a child's health and behavior. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores common mental health issues for children entering care, how disorders are diagnosed and treated, and how parents can work with professionals to support their children's mental health needs. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores common physical health issues for children entering care, and how parents can collaborate with health care providers to support their children's medical needs. [Also available in Spanish]
Examines how parents can support children’s cultural differences, including differences in customs, beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity, and why that is important to healthy growth and development. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores the process and challenges of moving from foster care to adoption and offers insight and advice for helping adoptive family members through those challenges. [Also available in Spanish]
This course explores the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores adding a foster child to the family and offers insight into how to preserve the family structure and reduce stress caused by a changing dynamic. [Also available in Spanish]
Covers how the child welfare system works, purpose and goals of the system, key terms, who the child welfare team members are, as well as their roles and responsibilities, and includes a bonus section on supporting sibling relationships of children in care. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores the challenges foster families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores problematic behavior in foster children and how foster parents can better understand the purpose of a child's behavior through careful observation. [Also available in Spanish]
Explores the benefits and challenges of building a working relationship between foster and primary families, and offers strategies for developing respectful, positive communication. [Also available in Spanish]
Cubre la diferencia entre el apego saludable y el adverso, cómo la separación y la pérdida afectan el apego, y cómo la teoría del apego se aplica a la vida real. [Spanish version of "Parent-Child Attachment"].
El Dr. Robert Nickel y Susan Edelstein, tratan los desafíos a los que se enfrentan los padres que proveen cuidados a bebés expuestos a sustancias, incluyendo los efectos de drogas legales e ilegales, múltiples casos de abuso de drogas, el trabajo con el equipo de profesionales asignado al bebé, y estrategias exitosas en la crianza. [Spanish version of "Substance-Exposed Infants"]
Aquí exploramos las intensificaciones, sus causas, y estrategias para aplacamientos. Antes de tomar este curso, se recomienda encarecidamente que los participantes primero tomen Crianza sensible al trauma. [Spanish version of "Escalating Behavior Unwrapped"]
Explora cómo los padres pueden cuidar de un niño y al mismo tiempo ser sensibles a sus experiencias pasadas. [Spanish version of "Trauma-Informed Parenting"]
Examina cómo los padres pueden apoyar las diferencias culturales del niño, incluyendo las relativas a costumbres, creencias, orientación sexual e identidad de género, así como por qué es importante para un crecimiento y desarrollo general saludables. [Spanish version of "Cultural Issues in Parenting"]
Analiza el proceso y los desafíos de pasar del cuidado temporal a la adopción y ofrece sugerencias y consejos para ayudar a los miembros de la familia adoptiva en esa transición. [Spanish version of "Foster Care to Adoption"]
Explora el desarrollo típico de un niño, los campos y las etapas de desarrollo, el temperamento y la compatibilidad, y los efectos del abuso y la negligencia en la salud y la conducta del menor. [Spanish version of "Child Development"]
Charley Joyce, trabajador social licenciado, trata el duelo y la pérdida sufridos por un menor que es retirado de su familia y asignado a un hogar temporal, y cómo la situación también afecta a los padres biológicos y a los proveedores de cuidados. [Spanish version of "Grief & Loss in the Care System"]
Analiza los efectos emocionales y de conducta del abuso sexual infantil en menores en crianza temporal y ofrece estrategias para ayudar a superar los retos a que se enfrentan los padres temporales. [Spanish version of "Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused"]
Analiza los desafíos a que se enfrentan las familias temporales en la pre-asignación, durante la asignación y después de la asignación, y ofrece sugerencias y consejos para ayudar a los hijos biológicos de la familia temporal durante esas etapas. [Spanish version of "The Impact of Fostering on Birth Children"]
Cubre cómo funciona el sistema de bienestar del menor, propósitos y objetivos del sistema, términos clave, y quiénes son los miembros del equipo, así como sus funciones y responsabilidades, e incluye una sección adicional que trata sobre la forma de apoyar las relaciones entre hermanos de menores en cuidado temporal. [Spanish version of "The Child Welfare Team"]
Explora los beneficios y desafíos de establecer una relación de colaboración entre la familia temporal y la primaria, y ofrece estrategias para crear una comunicación respetuosa y positiva. [Spanish version of "Working Together with Primary Families"]
Explora la explotación sexual de menores, en qué consiste, y cómo los padres pueden reconocer señales de que el menor esté siendo explotado sexualmente. [Spanish version of "Understanding Sex Trafficking"]
Analiza comportamientos problemáticos en niños en crianza temporal y cómo los padres pueden entender el propósito de la conducta del niño mediante una observación detenida. [Spanish version of "Understanding Behavior in Foster Children"]
Explora la función de los denunciantes obligatorios y los desafíos a los que se enfrentan en el proceso de efectuar una denuncia, y ofrece estrategias para garantizar que posteriores investigaciones no se vean comprometidas. [Spanish version of "The Role of Mandated Child Abuse Reporters"]
Un curso de pre-servicio diseñado para personas interesadas en proveer cuidado temporal, centrado en el maltrato infantil. Aprenda las características, los síntomas y las normas de denuncias de maltrato infantil. Advertencia: contiene imágenes gráficas. [Spanish version of "Child Abuse & Neglect"]
Explora problemas de salud física comunes en niños que entran en cuidado temporal, y cómo los padres pueden colaborar con los profesionales que les proveen atención médica. [Spanish version of "Children Entering Care: Physical Health Issues"]
Explora las condiciones más comunes de la salud mental en menores en cuidado temporal, cómo los trastornos se diagnostican y se tratan, y cómo los padres pueden trabajar con los profesionales en favor de la salud mental de sus niños. [Spanish version of "Children Entering Care: Mental Health Issues"]
El curso trata la educación pos preparatoria y cómo los padres de apoyo pueden ayudar a jóvenes del sexto al décimo grado a prepararse para ella. (Para los padres en California, este curso equivale al programa Convertir Sueños en Títulos, Curso de Educación 1). [Spanish version of "Preparing Teens for Postsecondary Education"]
Analiza diferentes aspectos de agregar un niño a la familia y ofrece sugerencias de cómo preservar la estructura familiar y reducir el estrés causado por el cambio de dinámicas. [Spanish version of "Reducing Family Stress"]
Explora cómo ofrecer normalidad a los menores en cuidado temporal usando las normas razonables y prudentes de crianza. [Spanish version of "Supporting Normalcy"]
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