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FREE SAMPLE: Foundations for Strong Families and Supportive Communities
CourseFostering Our Future offers a 100% online pre-license training course: Foundations for Strong Families and Supportive Communities. This course has been approved by the Florida Department of Children and Families.
$25
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Central Florida Foster Care Review Training
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A SNAPSHOT OF THE COURSE:
An Overview of Core Concepts in Foster Care: From System Basics to Advocacy and Transition
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The Florida Foster Care System: How the system works and its goal; why children are removed from home; what is neglect and abuse.
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The Effects of Entering the Child Welfare System: The signs of grief; trauma and its triggers; how the system impacts child development; attachment styles.
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Standards for Licensed Caregivers: Standards for foster homes; Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard; Multi-Ethnic Placement Act and Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Introduction to Family Systems Thinking: Murray Bowen’s Family Systems Theory; Edwin Friedman’s concept of Family Systems Thinking; concepts of Triangles and Differentiation.
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Family Advocacy: Foster parent rights and advocate responsibility; your role and responsibility in court; your role in the multidisciplinary team.
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Working Together as Part of the Treatment Team: Visitation types; effective co-parenting; develop a Life Book; roles of the multidisciplinary team.
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Transitioning Out of Care: Exiting the Florida child welfare system; termination of parental rights; children’s transition to permanency; behaviors of grief and loss.