Vol.
6, No. 2 May 2002
Training
opportunity for foster parents
Heres an opportunity
for foster parents to learn how to teach a course for foster parents
AND help foster teens prepare to live on their own.
Independent Living
Resources, based in Durham, is recruiting foster parents interested
in spending the weekend of October 1820, 2002 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 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 conduct trainings locally. A follow-up class will be offered several
months later for the participants to share their experiences and learn
new training techniques.
The course is sponsored
by the NC 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, attendees must ask their licensing worker
to support them in this effort to train foster parents.
The seminar begins at 3
p.m. on Fri., October 18 and ends at 1 p.m. on Sun., October 20, 2002.
To register, complete this registration form and return it to ILR, Inc.,
411 Andrews Road, Suite 230, Durham, NC 27705 or fax to (919) 384-0338.
Registration Deadline: September 13, 2002. For more infomation, 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:
September 13, 2002
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,
October 18 through Sunday, October 20, 2002 at the Ramada Inn, Burlington,
NC.
Friday, 10/18: 3:00 - 8:00
p.m.
Saturday, 10/19: 9:00 a.m.
- 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, 10/20: 9:00 a.m. -
1:00 p.m.
Copyright �
2001 Jordan Institute for Families