In addition to the events listed below, the Statewide Training Opportunities List is also available, courtesy of the Maui Training Collaborative. It includes a list of mainland trainings. Click here to download the most current Training List.
Support Groups – Statewide. Family Programs Hawai‘i (FPH) presents parent support groups that provide networking and sharing of information and resources. Current groups include Halawa (Oahu), Wai‘anae (Oahu), Kailua (Oahu), Hilo (Island of Hawai‘i), Kona (Island of Hawai‘i), and Wailuku (Maui). Child care and food are provided. Eligibility: All families who provide care for children from the Department of Human Services Child Welfare System. This includes resource (foster), guardianship, adoptive, permanent custodial, respite and kinship families.
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2012 Resource Family Appreciation Day
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Teen Day:Dream4Real
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Follow this link to download handouts from the Foster Care Training Committee (FCTC) training, Improving Children’s Behavior: Re-energizing the Traumatized Brain in Children, featuring Dr. Steven Choy.
The winter 2012 newsletter of the Children, Youth, and Families Office of the American Psychological Association includes several articles about the mental health needs of children and youth who have experienced foster care, including challenges faced by adoptive families and the mental health services they have used. Follow link for more information.
We’ve assembled a list of some of the best books ever written about parenting, foster care and adoption and given you an easy way to read about them and purchase them online by clicking through from this website. When you do, ITAL receives a portion of the proceeds from that sale and from everything else you purchase on Amazon in that session! It’s a great way to support our work with foster and adoptive families.
This book provides the foundation, resources, and tools to help professionals, parents, and other to support children for whom the journey through placement is part of their road to adulthood. Chapter titles include: 1) Attachment and Separation, 2) Child Development, 3) Separation and Loss, 4) Minimizing the Trauma of Moves, 5) Case Planning, and 6) Behavior Problems.
Achieving Permanency addresses the legal, medical, psychological, economic and social issues that often pose challenges to teens seeking permanent families. This book offers guidelines that describe different case types and propose specific solutions and approaches, including step-by-step legal and casework strategies.
