Vol. 5, No. 1 • Fall 2000

Training Opportunities for Foster Parents

For more information about the following training opportunities for foster parents, see your county DSS�s copy of the current N.C. DSS Training Calendar.

Finding Teaching Moments
This seminar will help you identify teaching moments, learn how to use those moments to motivate youth toward self-sufficiency, and learn to apply simple teaching methods.

Teaching Moments Dates
Nov. 13, 6�8 p.m. Elizabeth City
Nov. 28, 6�8 p.m. Greenville
Nov. 30, 6�8 p.m. Lumberton

Maintaining Connections Using the Lifebook as a Tool
This class teaches social workers and foster parents to help foster children create life books. These therapeutic tools help children identify and maintain important connections, retain valuable attachments, express his or her feelings, and collect pertinent personal history and documents.

Lifebook Course Dates
Feb. 15�16: Fayetteville/Lumberton
March 15�16: Greensboro
April 25�26: Kinston
May 10�11: Asheville
May 23 �24: Charlotte

Foster and adoptive parents can really benefit from taking this course. To register for Maintaining Connections Using the Lifebook as a Tool, contact Clarence Lamb (919/733-7672; [email protected]).

 

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