National Foster Care Month: Implementing Parent Partner Programs and Supporting Reunification

Jennifer Marcelli, LCSW, Taffy Compain, Cory Best, Denise Moore
CE Hours: 1.5

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Online Test and Certificate: $10.00

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This webinar provides child welfare professionals with an overview of the benefits of designing and implementing parent partner programs and how these programs support reunification. 

When parents lose custody of their children, the court-mandated services they must comply with in order to reunify may seem daunting. Currently, there is little data to determine why parents do or do not enter into social service programs in order to regain custody of their children. However, the factors of class, education, parenting status, and lack of knowledge about the child welfare system seems to hinder parental engagement with social workers. 

The Parent Partner Program provides mentors with whom parents can consult in order to understand how to navigate and comply with the services and processes necessary for court-supported reunification with their children. The mentors within the Parent Partner Program are not child welfare professionals but parents who previously lost and eventually regained custody of their children. Mentors within the Parent Partner Program can advise, coach, and guide parents through the services and processes necessary to demonstrate positive changes of social behavior in order to provide evidence of appropriate parental behavior. 

This webinar discusses the components of the Parent Partner Program that facilitate positive change and how parent partner mentors guide and motivate parents in utilizing services in order to have constructive interactions with the child welfare system and courts and supports reunification. 

A total of 1.5 CEUs are available for those who have attended this webinar. To register, click the “Purchase” box. Following payment of $10, you will fill out your information to receive a digital copy of your CEU Certificate.

 

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.

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Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
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IL: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141.  (1.5) hours.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (1.5) clock hours, #RCST110701
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Chemical Dependency Counselors
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