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Class Description:
Participants of this half-day Distance Learning Training session will gain an understanding of normal sexual development in children and adolescents. The workshop will provide a review of how child abuse and neglect can disrupt healthy sexual development and will address the medical aspects and identification of sexually transmitted diseases. This course will also facilitate an understanding of how to work most effectively with the medical and mental health professionals regarding a child or adolescent’s sexual development.
Target Audience:
Foster parents, kinship care providers, adoptive parents, and interested child welfare professionals.
Competencies:
- Learn the dynamics of adolescent sexuality and teen pregnancy
- Learn facts and issues related to birth control, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and multiple sexual partners
- Learn strategies to support and help youth cope with issues and problems related to sexual development and sexuality
- Learn how to conduct age and developmentally appropriate discussions and sex education with children and adolescents
- Learn the ways that a sexually abused child or youth might affect foster family members and can appropriately intervene in instances of sexual exploration and exploitation between the sexually abused child or youth and other children and youth
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Trained by:
Catherine Arnold
Lori Parker
Class Code & Date:
SHFC102008D: Oct. 20, 2008
SHFC102008SE: Oct. 20, 2008
SHFC120108D: Dec. 1, 2008
SHFC120108SW: Dec. 1, 2008
SHFC042709D: April 27, 2009
SHFC042709SW: April 27, 2009
Training Flyer:
SHFC_Oct2008.pdf
SHFC_Dec2008.pdf
Oct. 20, 2008
Broadcast from:
University of Denver
Craig Hall, Room 417
2148 S. High Street
Denver, CO 80208
Oct. 20, 2008
Broadcast to:
Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo
1600 W. 24th St.
Building 120, Room GE-6
Pueblo, CO 81003
Dec. 1, 2008
Broadcast from:
University of Denver
Craig Hall, Room 417
2148 S. High Street
Denver, CO 80208
Dec. 1, 2008
Broadcast to:
Grand Junction Regional Center
2800 D Road
Laundry Building Conference Room
Grand Junction, CO 81501
April 27, 2009
Broadcast from:
University of Denver
Craig Hall, Room 417
2148 S. High Street
Denver, CO 80208
April 27, 2009
Broadcast to:
La Plata County
Durango, CO
(Exact location TBA)
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Time:
Oct. 20, 2008 (9:00am to 1:00pm)
Dec. 1, 2008 (9:00am to 1:00pm)
April 27, 2009 (5:00pm to 9:00pm)
This training is eligible for 4 continuing training hours.
Cost:
FREE for all Colorado County Foster Parents/Kinship Care Providers, and Colorado County Caseworkers.
$15.00 if you are with a Private Agency or an Adoptive Parent.
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