Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work: Concrete Supports & Social-Emotional Competence
Since the introduction of the Strengthening Families approach, advances in knowledge have deepened our understanding about child development and behavior, developmental impacts of trauma, and pathways to child and family well-being. We now know that families gain what they need to be successful when key protective factors are robust in their lives and communities.
LEARNING GOALS
- Recognize how lack of support, when under stress, can sometimes lead to child maltreatment.
- Give examples of how workers can provide welcoming, non-threatening support to families.
- List several ways workers can link to partners in the community to help families in need.
- Identify the challenges and opportunities culture and tradition present as we try to help families.
- List several characteristics of children who are emotionally healthy and who demonstrate social skills appropriate for their age or environment.
- Identify what is realistic to expect in terms of social and emotional skills for children at different developmental stages.
- Recognize how this protective factor can help make child maltreatment less likely to occur.
- Give examples of how parents and other caregivers can develop strategies that will help children to grow emotionally and socially.
Courses Presented by Certified Trainers of the National Alliance of Children’s Trust & Prevention Funds
Training is offered free of charge by the TEAM for West Virginia Children, with support from the West Virginia Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health through combined funding from federal Project Launch, Home Visitation and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems grants.
CEU application will be made for STARS WV.
CEU’s pending approval from the Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health for Nursing through the WV Board of Examiners for Registered Nurses, License # WV1999-0297, Social Work through the WV Board of Social Work Examiners, License # 490089.
For more information, email
info@strengtheningfamilieswv.org
- Lunch will be served.
SPACE LIMITED TO THE FIRST 33 INDIVIDUALS TO REGISTER
BY AUGUST 22, 2016!