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Training Opportunities
Youth Care Professionals Training Institute ...utilizing over 93 years of child and family care expertise to promote excellence in the treatment and care of children and their families. High-quality, convenient, and low-cost training for you and your staff CEUs and certifications available All Church Home's staff has a broad range of expertise in child
care and social services. Through the Youth Care Professionals Training
Institute (YCPTI), ACH's staff can share this expertise and the expertise
of other child care professionals with parents, foster parents, child
care workers, and other social service providers. This exchange of
ideas and information promotes excellence in the treatment and care
of children.
2008 Schedule Monthly Workshops
Using Love and Logic to Prepare Teenagers for the Real World Friday, August 29 9:00am-12:00pm Cost $35 Credit: .3 CEUs The Parenting with Love and Logic approach is a valuable tool for handling the challenging issues the teenage years present. Whether you're parenting a teenager at home or working with teenagers in the community, this approach can give you a framework for addressing everyday challenges and helping teenagers become responsible adults. Carla Storey, LCSW is Residential Campus Director at All Church Home for Children. She is a certified Love and Logic trainer and has taught the course in a variety of settings. She also applies these principles on a daily basis with the children she works with in the residential programs. Solution-Focused Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents Friday, September 19 9:00am-12:00pm Cost $35 Credit: .3 CEUs Participants will learn the basic theoretical constructs of solution-focused therapy and their application to working with children and adolescents in the group setting. Extensive case studies will be discussed and opportunities to do role plays and experience the solution-focused process firsthand will be made available. Participants will be ready to implement the ideas immediately after the training.
Linda Metcalf, PhD, LPC, LMFT is a leader in the field of solution-focused therapy. She has published five books and several articles on this approach, including Counseling Toward Solutions, the first solution-focused book to address school issues of children and adolescents. She continues to apply the principles as a therapist in a limited private practice, international trainer, and school consultant. She is an assistant professor at Texas Woman's University and an associate professor at Texas Wesleyan University.
Staying Ethical in Your Conversations with Youth Wednesday, October 29 1:00pm-4:00pm Cost $40 Credit: .3 CEUs In this workshop we will be considering how to work ethically with youth; protecting their confidentiality while maintaining the ability to discuss important issues with their parents and caretakers when needed. Counselors, caseworkers, therapists and others working with children and adolescents must develop rapport and trust with youth in order to counsel them and yet when youth know we will share certain information with their parents (or others), they become reticent to talk at all. Many of youth’s behaviors are risky and give us cause for concern. In today’s world, the act of notification can increase or decrease our personal and agency’s exposures to liability. The question, many times is not “what must we report?” but “how can we act ethically without undermining our attempts to build a trusting relationship with youth?” Jack Nowicki, LMSW-ACP is a program development specialist at TNOYS working with STAR providers to identify and coordinate their technical assistance needs. Jack has over 25 years of experience working with families and youth; including four years in children’s protective services, three years working in psychiatric residential treatment with adolescents and over ten years in a marriage and family private practice. Jack taught the Family Therapy course at the U.T. Graduate School of Social Work for six years and now teaches the first upper-division graduate class in Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). Jack has co-authored several journal articles on brief counseling with youth and families, has a chapter on SFBT Crisis Intervention in the new Social Work Desk Reference and is currently a consulting editor for Social Work in Education Journal. He has been teaching ethics courses since 2000 and completely revised the curriculum in 2006 to address concerns by providers about talking with youth without parents’ permission. Working in the Light: Resilience Strategies for Human Services Agencies Friday, November 21 9:00am-12:00pm Cost $35 Credit: .3 CEUs This seminar will focus on resilience strategies as protective measures against burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. Practical strategies both for direct services staff and managers/supervisors will be offered.
Janice Harris Lord, LMSW, LPC is a Fellow in Thanatology with the Association of Death Education and Counseling and is a member of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. Janice has worked in the crime victims’ movement since 1976, beginning with child abuse and neglect, followed by domestic violence. Janice is a consultant for a number of crime victim organizations with special interest in the role of spirituality in services to victims of crime. She consults on ethics in human services work and serves as a media representative for victims of crime. She has published two books, many journal articles, curricula, brochures, booklets, research reports, and other publications. Janice received the U.S. Presidential Award for "Outstanding Service on Behalf of Victims of Crime” from President Bill Clinton and U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno, in 1994.
Health and Safety Trainings
Satori Alternative to Managing Aggression (SAMA) Two-Day Training - Wednesdays and Thursdays 1:00pm-5:00pm each day Cost: $50 covers both sessions of this two-day workshop CEUs not available Limited Class Size July 23 and 24 August 20 and 21 September 17 and 18 October 22 and 23 November 19 and 20 The SAMA trainers are All Church Home for Children employees with direct care and supervisory experience. Psychotropic Medication Management Wednesdays 8:30am-11:00am Cost: $40 CEUs not available July 16 August 13 September 10 October 15 November 12 Donna Chicotsky, RN is a nurse for All Church Home for Children where she provides medical care for the children in the residential programs and provides training for direct care staff and foster parents.
Becoming a Love and Logic Parent – Training for Parents and Professionals
Weekend Trainings Saturdays, August 16 and 23 Saturdays, November 1 and 8 9:00am-2:30pm each day Cost: $30 covers both sessions of this two-day workshop (including lunch and parent handbook) CEUs not available The Parenting with Love and Logic trainers are clinical personnel of All Church Home for Children who utilize the Parenting with Love and Logic skills as professionals and parents.
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