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Training and Conference Announcements -
May 7, 2012
“Supporting
Early Brain Development during Brain Awareness Week and Beyond.”
From
Georgia Family Connection Partnership: "Check out our latest blog
entry by guest blogger Diane Bales, a specialist in child and family
development at the University of Georgia. She offers some practical
tips on how we can raise children with healthy brains, and raise
awareness of early brain development in our communities."
Find Your Flow Part 5: Truly Forgive
Date: May 11
Time: 11 a.m.-noon CT
Cost: Free
This is the fifth in a series of nine webinars designed
to empower professionals to live their authentic lives. This
session specifically will focus on how to truly forgive. -
Alliance for Children and Families
Register online
May
14-18, 2012 - Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI)
Train-the-Trainer - Columbia, SC. (registration deadline April
11)
more information
Communicating with People of Diverse Backgrounds
Date: May 22
Time: 1-2:30 p.m. CT
Cost: Free for Alliance for Children and Families members,
$35 for AACRC or UNCA members, and $45 for nonmembers
This webinar explores the nature of diversity today, going beyond
the usual focus on race and gender. It will delve into the complex
relationships between aspects of diversity and human communication.
- Alliance for Children and Families
Alliance for Children and Families members:
Register online
Nonmembers:
Pay online
Find Your Flow Part 6: Glean Benefits and Resolve Re-Occurring
Problems
Date: May 25
Time: 11 a.m.-noon CT
Cost: Free
This is the sixth in a series of nine webinars designed to
empower professionals to live their authentic lives. This session
specifically will focus on how to glean benefits and resolve
re-occurring problems. -Alliance for Children and Families
Register online
Writing Thank-You Letters that Inspire Future Gifts
Date: May 30
Time: Noon-1 p.m. CT
Cost: Free for Alliance for Children and Families
members (Members only webinar)
In this webinar, participants will look at ways to
improve thank-you letters and build long-term relationships
with supporters. Attendees will examine effective thank-you
notes for a variety of situations, from first and repeat
donors, to event and corporate sponsorships. -Alliance for
Children and Families
Register online
Improving
the Lives of Children through Healthy Couple Relationships and
Stable Homes: The Healthy Relationships and Marriage Education
Training
Date: June 20, 2012 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Family Connections, 235 Peachtree St, Suite 1600 Atlanta,
GA 30303
This training
will prepare professionals to understand and support healthy
co-parenting, couple and marital relationships for underserved and
overrepresented populations in the child welfare system. The
Healthy Relationships and
Marriage Education Training (HRMET) project, funded by the
Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children's Bureau,
seeks to meet the safety, permanency, and well-being needs of
vulnerable children in the child welfare system by increasing child
welfare workers’ access to and implementation of relationship and
marriage education. Child Welfare providers in Georgia are fortunate
to have the opportunity to participate in this 1-day pilot training
designed to serve as a research model leading to an evidence-based
national training resource.
In 2011,
child welfare private agency staff who work with foster families
participated in the first HRMET pilot in Georgia. Participants in
the roll out of the Georgia pilot responded very favorably to the
potential of HRMET for enhancing positive outcomes for children and
families. The next training is scheduled June 20, 2012 from 9:00
a.m.-5:00 p.m. at Family Connections, 235 Peachtree St, Suite
1600 Atlanta, GA 30303.
Leading the
training is Dr. Ted Futris, Associate Professor in Child and Family
Development and a State Extension Family Life Specialists in Family
and Consumer Sciences Extension at the University of Georgia. Dr.
Futris provides state and national leadership for Extension programs
in family life, with a particular focus on parenting education,
relationship and marital enrichment, and stepfamily relations. In
addition to programmatic evaluation, his primary areas of research
include fathering, adolescent parenting, and co-parenting
relationships. In particular his work focuses on the influence of
couple and co-parenting relationships on parenting quality. His
research and outreach programming has been funded by the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIH), USDA-Cooperative State Research
Education and Extension Service, Administration on Children, Youth
and Families (ACF) Children’s Bureau as well as the Office of
Community Services, Deputy under Secretary of the Army, and Georgia
Department of Community Affairs.
This is a no-cost event to participants. The pilot includes pre and
post training surveys, which are then used as part of the data and
research. A preregistration fee is required and is reimbursed on
completion of the training. A travel stipend and lunch is also
provided the day of the training.
Although space is limited, you may register more than one
participant per agency.
Click here to register.
HRMET
Brochure and
Fact Sheet
This
training is being co-sponsored by University of Georgia Cooperative
Extension, Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children,
and Georgia Family Connections Partnership.
June 17-22, 2012
- The Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations
(ELPNO):
The Executive Leadership Program
for Nonprofit Organizations (ELPNO), a partnership of Georgia State
University, the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, is accepting
applications for early registration for its next session on June
17-22, 2012 at UGA’s Fanning Institute in Athens, GA. At
ELPNO, nonprofit executives work side by side with a nationally
known prominent university faculty on issues such as nonprofit
finance, governance, ethics, resource development and the theory and
practice of leadership. This week long, small group, intensive
learning experience offers practical opportunities for participants
to share experiences and explore the latest knowledge in nonprofit
management and leadership. Participants who confirm their
registration by January 31, 2012 will be eligible for a 10% discount
on tuition. For more information, visit
www.elpno.org
or contact Kate Smith at
ksmith@fanning.uga.edu
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July 22-25, 2012 - FFTA 26th Annual
Conference on Treatment Foster Care: Building Permanent Connections -
Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Join over 600 family-based services professionals and foster parents
to learn how treatment foster care is establishing permanent connections
at the only North American-based Conference on Treatment Foster
Care. The conference features over 70 workshops highlighting the best
practices being applied in the field.
http://www.ffta.org/conference/
2012 Georgia Conference
on Children and Families:
The Georgia Conference on Children and
Families is the largest annual interdisciplinary event
in Georgia designed to bring together the community that
serves children and families. The conference will
feature specialized tracks, plenary sessions and
networking opportunities with the goal of improving
outcomes for the children and families that we serve.
This conference includes a full spectrum of disciplines
and organizations serving Georgia’s children and
families which includes child advocacy, juvenile
justice, social service, education, and the faith-based
community. The conference provides a forum to improve
competencies, learn from experts in the field and
network with other professionals who have a wealth of
experience. This event is traditionally held in the fall
- details TBA
GCCF website
Training Resources and
Calendars:
Foster
Parent College
Governor's Office for Children and Families
Nonprofit University
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