Vol.
5, No. 2 May 2001
Training
opportunity for foster parents
Here's an opportunity for foster
parents to learn how to facilitate a training class for foster parents
AND help foster teens prepare for to live on their own.
Independent Living
Resources, based in Durham, is recruiting foster parents interested
in spending the weekend of November 2-4, 2001 in Burlington to learn
what it takes to be a foster parent trainer on topics related to foster
teens.
The course, "Helping
Youths Reach Self-Sufficiency," will cover the basics of independent
living, including assessing youths, making decisions, and building assets,
as well as how to use education, employment, and the community in the
process.
Foster parent participants
will also learn how to organize a two-hour training for other foster
parents in their area. Participants will have an opportunity to practice
training skills at the seminar. Upon returning home, the foster parent
trainers will be asked to conduct trainings locally. A follow-up class
will be offered several months later for the participants to share their
experiences, receive new curriculum, and learn new training techniques.
The course is sponsored
by the N.C. Division of Social Services LINKS program and is offered
FREE to foster parents. The LINKS program will pay lodging and meals
for foster parents to attend. Prior to registering for the course, foster
parents are asked to seek support from their licensing worker to provide
training for agency foster parents.
The seminar begins
at 3 p.m. on Friday, November 2 and ends at 1 p.m. on Sunday, November
4. To register please complete the following registration form and return
to ILR, Inc., 411 Andrews Road, Suite 230, Durham, NC 27705 or fax to
(919) 384-0338. Registration Deadline: October 5, 2001. For more
information, please contact Nancy Carter (800/820-0001; [email protected].
"Helping
Youth Reach Self-Sufficiency"
Residency Training Registration Form
Independent Living
Resources, Inc.
411 Andrews Road, Suite 230, Durham, NC 27705
(919) 384-1457 or fax (919) 384-0338
Fill out this form (please print)
and mail or fax to above address.
Registration Deadline:
October 5, 2001.
Registrant Information
Name:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Phone: Fax:
Agency:
Agency Address (if different than
above):
Participant
Interest:
How do you plan to
use the skills learned in this seminar?
Do you have training
experience?
When do you anticipate
conducting your first foster parent training?
Time and Location: Friday,
Nov. 2 through Sunday, Nov. 4, 2001 at the Comfort Inn, Burlington,
NC (exit 145 off I-40). Hotel telephone: 336/227-3681.
Friday, 11/02: 3:00 - 8:00
p.m.
Saturday, 11/03: 9:00 a.m.
- 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, 11/04: 9:00 a.m. -
1:00 p.m.
Copyright �
2001 Jordan Institute for Families