It's All Relative: Supporting Family Engagement Through Innovation in Kinship Care

Jennifer Marcelli, L.C.S.W.
CE Hours: 1.5

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Online Test and Certificate: $10.00

"PLEASE NOTE; this item is for the purchase of the post-test and CE certificate only."

Foster Care as a Support to Families, Not a Substitute for Parents
The need for strong relationships and parental support continues when a child enters foster care. Children need to feel loved and cared for by their mothers, fathers, siblings, and maternal and paternal relatives. Even when parents are unable to keep their children safe at home, they can remain actively involved with their children in foster care in safe and healthy ways. Foster and birth families must work together to support children in and after care to help ensure successful reunification.

Community-Based, Collaborative Programs That Support Families
Primary prevention of maltreatment and a focus on well-being best occur in the communities where children and families live. Community-based programs provide families with access to critical services in supportive environments that enhance protective factors. Child welfare agencies cannot and should not do this work alone. A wide array of stakeholders and systems must work together guided by the communities they serve.

Child welfare (title IV-E) waiver demonstration projects, funded by CB, provide states with opportunities to use federal funds to test innovative approaches to child welfare service delivery and financing. The need for strong relationships and parental support continues when a child enters foster care. Children need to feel loved and cared for by their mothers, fathers, siblings, and maternal and paternal relatives. This webinar will highlight placements with relative caregivers through the provision of supports (home assessment, support planning, and service referral and provision).

Continuing Education

Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid course fee, completed evaluation, and completed post-test with passing grade of 75% in order to receive a certificate. Failure to complete and submit these materials will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Cosponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
IL-MFTs: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141. (1.5) hours.
NY-LMHCs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0015. (1.5) contact hours. Live in-person.
NY-LMFTs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. (1.5) contact hours. Live in-person.

Creative Arts Therapists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0005. (1.5) contact hours. Live in-person.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.