by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 10, 2023 | Advocacy
Trainer: Dr. John DeGarmo Description: This session will focus on the many challenges of crisis and stress that foster parents face on a daily basis. This session is designed for case workers and social workers to better understand the times of stress and crisis that...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 10, 2023 | Advocacy
Trainer: Ms. Coleen LaCosta Description: An interactive workshop for local FAPAs, licensing, foster support and and others to learn how supporting a foster home during an allegation can help to retain foster homes. F.A.S.T. supports foster parents during allegations....
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 5, 2023 | Advocacy
Trainer: Justin Black Description: This workshop discusses strategies and techniques developed by foster care alumni, Justin and Alexis Black, as they combined the information they’ve learned from healthy foster parents, counselors, advocates, and ultimately their...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 5, 2023 | Advocacy
Trainer: Ashley Rae Klinger Description: Inspired by the growth of her family and their journey through infertility, adoption, and foster care, Ashley Rae has introduced the Family Shrub and the “shrub not a tree” philosophy as an alternative concept to...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 5, 2023 | Advocacy
Trainer: Mrs. Jennifer Patrick Description: Advocacy for FAK Parents! Too often, foster parents get licensed before they inform or invite relatives and friends into their journey. In this working session, foster, adoptive and kinship parents will learn how to present...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 5, 2023 | Advocacy
Trainer: Sara Clements Description: Regardless of the interest group, policy area, or issue, getting a legislator to listen and engage is a challenge; it’s even more so when the policy area is as complex as child welfare and the issues can be downright depressing. In...
