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.

Social Workers 
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 1.5 contact hours self-study.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (1.5) clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists 
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio Board includes Counselors and MFTs.
IL: 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. 
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.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (1.5) clock hours, #RCST110701
TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. (1.5) CE Hours. Provider #151                                                                                                                                                           

This course is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402

 

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.