Comprehensive Child and Family Assessment (CCFA) Advanced Skills Training

Prerequisite: Back to Basics training

Date:
June 29, 2010

Time:
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location:
34 Peachtree Street NW, Suite 2240, Atlanta, GA 30303
Fee:
$50.00
Registration Deadline: June 25, 2010

Program Overview:
The Georgia Department of Family and Children Services contracts with providers to deliver Comprehensive Child and Family Assessments (CCFA). Providers under contract are required to maintain certificates of attendance for individuals who will complete Family and/or Adolescent Assessments and for supervisors responsible for supervising assessors.
This one-day presentation reviews the Comprehensive Child and Family Assessment standards and covers the Psychological Assessment and Family Assessment.

Objectives of the Program:
Participants will develop an understanding of the CCFA standards, tools and goals with a clinical emphasis and develop skills using model assessments.

About the Trainer:
Wendy Haus Hanevold, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in working with families who are undergoing major life transitions. Her interests revolve around building positive and healthy attachments, acceptance of grief and loss issues, and helping children and families bloom where they are planted. The creation of successful parenting teams is a key component in her work and training. Dr. Hanevold maintains a private practice in Atlanta specializing in children, teens and families struggling with attachment and other disorders secondary to complex trauma. Wendy is a popular lecturer in child, teen and family, assessment ,coaching and treatment.  Wendy is also the clinical consultant to the  Georgia Division of Family and Children’s Services-Comprehensive Child and Family Assessment Program (CCFA). She has been with CCFA since the pilot project and designed the components of the Child and  Family Assessment in consultation with the CCFA committee. For twelve years she was  also the consulting psychologist to Georgia’s Therapeutic Foster Care Management Team. 

Target Audience:
CCFA Providers who have completed the
Back to Basics training.

Click here to register. (Space is limited)

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