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Foster Parent Training Program: Evaluation Report 1983-1984, Carole Davis
Foster Parent Training Program: Evaluation Report 1983-1984, Carole Davis
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Over the past two years, the Foster Parent Training project, in close cooperation with the Department of Social Services, has been successful in training over 1,000 foster parents and caseworkers in the Basic and Adolescent curricula. A statewide network capable of providing on-going support to local foster parents has been developed. In addition to the 16 regional trainers, over 55 local people interested in foster care have participated as co-trainers. The involvement of other local resource people such as judges, counselors, caseworkers, and attorneys has increased the number involved in training even more. The following report presents a summary of …
Fostering The Adolescent: Trainer's Manual, Diana Kraus
Fostering The Adolescent: Trainer's Manual, Diana Kraus
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Fostering the Adolescent is designed as a curriculum to meet the needs of foster parents who have (or soon will have) adolescent foster children in their homes. Trainers will get to know the parents in their groups and use some flexibility in meeting the needs of those parents. The commitment made by the Foster Parent Training Project is one of providing parents with materials and training that will be helpful to them in fostering their adolescents. The curriculum is designed in ten separate segments, and those segments or sessions may be delivered in any sequence helpful to both the parents …
Foster Parent Training Program Evaluation Report 1982-1983, Carole Davis, Floyd T. Waterman
Foster Parent Training Program Evaluation Report 1982-1983, Carole Davis, Floyd T. Waterman
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The Center for Applied Urban Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is proud to have been the developers of the Nebraska Foster Parent Training Program materials. These materials have received national recognition and have been adopted for foster parent· training by other states as well. Evaluations of the previous CAUR Foster Parent Training Program (May, 1978 and December, 1981) indicated a high degree of acceptance and utilization of the training. With funding provided by Title XX and co-sponsored by the Nebraska Department of Public Welfare and the Center for Applied Urban Research, the Basic Course was continued throughout …
Share Newsletter 1980-1984, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)
Share Newsletter 1980-1984, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)
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Issues of the SHARE Newsletter, dating 1980 - 1984.
This Way To Foster Parenting: A Training Manual For People Who Want To Be Foster Parents - Participant's Manual, Barbara Kendrick, Carol Ertl
This Way To Foster Parenting: A Training Manual For People Who Want To Be Foster Parents - Participant's Manual, Barbara Kendrick, Carol Ertl
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It is a well-known fact that in our society today there are many problems-and these problems often strike first and hardest in the family. Families today often need help, and one form of help is having the children removed temporarily and placed in foster care.
The foster families that care for these displaced children are in actually helping more than the children in their care; they are helping families get back on their feet and reunite if at all possible. Thus, foster parenting requires more than the skills learned as a parent of one's own children; it requires helping families …