7 Gifts for Foster/Adoptive Parents
Dr. Karyn Purvis gives 7 valuable gifts for foster/adopt parents.
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- By Dr. Karyn Purvis
7 Insights For Foster/Adopt Parents
Dr. Karyn Purvis gives 7 valuable insights for foster/adopt parents.
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- By Dr. Karyn Purvis
Children From Hard Places
In this presentation, Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about what everyone needs to know about children from hard places.
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- By Dr. Karyn Purvis
Communicable Disease Training
Introduction to Communicable Disease Training
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency
Cultural Diversity
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
Cybersecurity Training
What is a Certified Cybersecurity Training Program? Texas Government Code 2054.519 State Certified Cybersecurity Training Programs requires DIR, in consultation with the Texas Cybersecurity Council, to certify at least five cybersecurity training programs for state and local government employees and Section 2054.5191 requires state and local government employees and officials to complete a certified training program. The statute also requires state government contractors to complete a certified training program.
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
Discipline in Foster Care - Managing Our Behaviors to Manage Theirs
This training will examine the importance of discipline based on the child’s age, developmental level, past experiences, and their current situation and discusses how foster parents own behavior can impact a foster child’s behavior.
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
Extended Reach - Log In Training
This training teaches you how to login to the Foster Parent Website, called Extended Reach
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
How to talk so kids listen to you
How to get your child to open up
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- By Josh Shipp
Human Trafficking
Identifying Human Trafficking
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
IDEAL response for foster parents
This is a highly effective strategy for parents to use in order to both correct behavior while staying connected with their child.
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- By Dr. Karyn Purvis
Making A Difference
Introduction to PRIDE video
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
Medical Consent Training for Caregivers
This training is for any person authorized to make medical decisions for children in the legal custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). This includes foster parents, case managers for child placing agencies, professional staff of emergency shelters, cottage parents, relative and kinship caregivers, and certain DFPS staff and youth medical consenters.
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- By TDFPS
Need for Normalcy - A Training for Foster Parents
Learning Goals This course will help you understand the need for children in your care to have a normal living environment. We call this normalcy. After this training you will be able to: - Understand what the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of 2014 means to you. - Define normalcy. - Discuss reasonable and prudent (careful) parenting. - Determine activities that are right for a child’s age. - Recognize that normal activities are important to all children and teens. - Understand social media and how kids can use it safely. - Understand Minimum Standards on normalcy that apply to child placing agencies.
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- By TDFPS
Need for Normalcy: Training for Foster Parents
This training will provide an Introduction to Normalcy, an Overview of Legal Definitions and Guidelines for Normalcy.
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Learn about ODD
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- By Josh Shipp
Preparing for the home study
In this episode we share a list of the initial steps we took towards becoming licensed foster parents.
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- By Donald and Abby
QIC-EY NOW:
By walking you through a few simple steps, QIC-EY NOW will help you to validate and to deepen your child-and-youth engagement skills via audio and video examples on demand plus concrete tips. Participants will hear from people with lived expertise discuss why authentic child and youth engagement is a foundational element for successful child welfare systems and learn practical information that workers, supervisors, and leaders can use to transform how children and youth are engaged. The QIC-EY is led by Spaulding for Children and is working in close partnership with four national partners.
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Shaken Baby Syndrome Training
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) Training for Caregivers
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services
The Power of One Caring Adult
One Caring Adult Is All That It Takes
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- By Josh Shipp
Wrapround Service Model
These short animated videos, developed by NWI, NWIC and WERT in collaboration with The Institute for Innovation & Implementation, illustrate key concepts about Wraparound.
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- By Amazing Grace Child and Family Services