This one to three day training session will focus on the development of a comprehensive family assessment that will increase participant’s ability to:
Objectives
- Engage families in the assessment process
- Understand informed decision making
- Conduct assessments that empower families
- Provide assessment that are culturally competent
- Use multiple tools and techniques in performing family preparation and assessment
- Build knowledge and skill in writing a family preparation and assessment summary that contributes to family empowerment
- To develop strategies for collaboration with colleagues
- Understand the different dynamics of foster parent and kinship adoption
- To share and examine strategies for engaging the foster family in the adoption process
- To enhance the capacities of participants to deal with difficult decisions that may be present in foster parent adoption situations
