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Delaware In-Service Training

Training Topic: Independent Living: Aging out of Foster Care
Trainer: Dr. Kietra Winn, DSW
Location: Progressive Life Center, 262 Chapman Rd, Suite 103 Newark, DE 19702
Date: April 13, 2019
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Child Care Available: Yes
Lite Refreshments Available: Yes
Description: The independent living program is a federally funded program which assist current and former foster youth between the ages of 14 and 21 achieve self-sufficiency prior to, and after, exiting the foster care.
Participants in the independent living program receive training in life skills, personal development, mentoring, tuition assistance and support with transitional living. This training will educate foster parents on the independent living program and how foster parents can be supportive in the transition out of care. This training will provide foster parents with tips that they can use to nurture and prepare their foster youth into adulthood, information on independent living services available, ASSIST, educational and training vouchers and housing programs.

Training Topic: Transitioning from Foster Care: How to be supportive through the Adoption process
Trainer: Dr. Kietra Winn, DSW
Location: Progressive Life Center, 262 Chapman Rd, Suite 103 Newark, DE 19702
Date: May 11, 2019
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Child Care Available: Yes
Lite Refreshments Available: Yes
Description: If you are a foster parent adopting a child, children or youth currently in your care you have the primary role of helping them to adjust to adoption along with the assistance of their adoption worker. The adoption process is an ongoing journey that continues past the day the adoption is finalizes. There are several ways that foster parents can help ease the transition. The transition to adoption is a gradual process and the adjustment period can be a vulnerable time as your foster child begins to understand they will not return to their birth family. Some children feel relief about having a forever family while others may feel a deep sense of loss. In this training we will discuss the difference between adoption and foster care; we will review how to discuss the transition to adoption with your foster child, helping your foster child understand and cope; and review resources available to foster parents.

Training Topic: How to Appropriately Respond to a Crisis
Trainer: Dr. Kietra Winn, DSW
Location: Progressive Life Center, 262 Chapman Rd, Suite 103 Newark, DE 19702
Date: June 8 , 2019
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Child Care Available: Yes
Lite Refreshments Available: Yes
Description: Each child is unique in how he or she responds to crisis. Some children may become quiet and withdrawn, while others may become irritable and act out to get more attention. It’s important to remember that these are all normal reactions to trauma and to respond in a calm and caring way. This training will focus on educating foster parents on the appropriate way to respond when their foster youth is in crisis. We will review the foster parent’s role as an emotional container and how to be supportive in retaining all of the foster youths overwhelming emotion s and behaviors until the crisis has subsided. Foster parents will be educated in resources available when youth are in crisis and agency protocol. This training will help foster parents create a sense of safety in their home, effective ways for youth to process overwhelming emotions ,and learn healthy coping skills.