Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children
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Class Description:

This day and a half training will assist foster/adoptive parents to develop strategies for parenting emotionally disturbed or challenging children. Co-trained by a foster/adoptive parent and an experienced caseworker, participants will also learn skills to cope with the stresses of parenting challenging children.

 

Target Audience:

Foster parents, kinship care providers, adoptive parents, and interested child welfare professionals.

Care givers will be given preference over child welfare professionals when registering.

 

Competencies:
  • Understand the principles of good parenting
  • Understand the difference between behavior management and behavior modification
  • Understand how abuse and neglect impact brain development and child development
  • Understand the effects of prenatal substance exposure and mental illness on children
  • Understand the characteristics of successful foster parenting

 

 

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Trained by:
Dan Mills
Beth Woods

 

Class Dates:
September 10-11, 2010
February 25-26, 2011
June 24-25, 2011

 

Training Hours:
11

 

Training Flyer:
Strategies_Sep2010.pdf

 

Training Location:

September 10-11, 2010
Holiday Inn & Suites
300 S. Colorado Hwy 13
Craig, CO 81625

 

February 25-26, 2011
Denver, CO
Location TBA

 

June 24-25, 2011
Pueblo, CO
Location TBA

 

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Time:

4:30 pm - 9:00 pm on Friday
8:30 am - 4:30 pm on Saturday

Attendance is required on both days

 

Cost:

FREE for all Colorado County Foster Parents/Kinship Care Providers, and Colorado County Caseworkers.

$25.00 if you are with a Private Agency or an Adoptive Parent.