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| Site purpose: Training; share information between foster, adoptive families, and all other professions working with abused and neglected children. | Check our chat schedule for guest speakers. Please feel free to participate in our chats and email discussions. Share information and get questions answered by other care providers on our discussion boards. We hope you find this visit to be very informative and supportive. |
FCAC Online Training offers 66 courses with new topics added continuously. Complete mandated training hours from the comfort of your home. Training online offers flexible hours.....train around your schedule. No need for baby sitters. Courses are developed by professionals with extensive experience in the foster care arena, and most hold a Masters or Ph.D. Certificates of completion are immediately generated with the passing of 80% correct on test at the end of each course. Certificates may be emailed or downloaded from the screen to your computer, printed out and presented to your agency. Certificates are beautiful and contain your name, course title, hours credited, and date. FCAC has contracted with a number of agencies and the States of Oklahoma, Maine and Idaho to provide online training at no cost to their Resource Families. Kudos to those agencies, Oklahoma, Maine and Idaho for the support to their Resource Families! | FCAC is pleased to announce we have been approved as a provider of Continuing Education (CE) for Alabama social workers. | |||||||
FCAC Welcomes Dr. Karyn Purvis & Dr. David Cross to Our
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Available soon ........
Dr. Rita Laws will present an interactive online training course.
This course will have you sharing the joys and the not so joyous moments of parenting. Click here for more info |
Now
Available "Creating A Healing Environment for Children”
is a course which has grown out of many years of research by Karyn
Purvis, Ph.D. and David Cross, Ph.D. Karyn and David are co-founders
of the Adoption Project, which is an outreach program of the Developmental
Research Lab at TCU, directed by David. The Adoption Project is multi-faceted
and consists of research and intervention; student, parent, and professional
training; as well as advocacy in the greater child-welfare community.
The Hope Connection is the centerpiece of the Adoption Project and
consists of a five-week summer day camp for at-risk adopted children
and their parents. The camp program is unique in that it is a research-based
intervention and has gathered dynamic data for six years, which have
been used to empower adoptive parents and their children. Although
the project is a research effort, it is also a matter close to the
heart for both David and Karyn. David was a foster child himself,
and Karyn served as foster parent to many children in addition to
having two adopted grandchildren of her own. In addition to working
in the Adoption Project and Hope Connection, David and Karyn work
actively in child advocacy and speak frequently at parent and professional
meetings.
FCAC
is proud to present Mary Goodearle's Difficult Children Workshop Series.
Coming Soon "Multi-Symptom Kids".
Mary is a foster parent trainer, consultant and author. Mary and
her husband, Allen, fostered over 40 children, and are the parents
of seven adopted children and two biological children. Mary is a former
Child Protection Social Worker, Foster Care Coordinator, and State
Adoption Social Worker. She taught classes in Foster Care and Adoption
at a community college for nine years and trained in partnership with
the University of Wisconsin providing workshops and seminars for both
foster parents and social workers. Mary holds a Bachelor's Degree
in Sociology and Psychology, and a Master's Degree in Human Services
Management and Public Administration.