Recognizing the Ability in Every Child

                    

Kids Included Together Inclusion Symposium

Dual Support: Strategies for Working with Children and Their Families

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Speakers
Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:00pm-4:00pm
Mike Ashcraft, Founder and CEO of Children’s Choice Child Care Services

Fantastic Family Forces: It’s All About the Relationships

The relationships we have with the families of the children we care for are an integral part of our work. This training provides practical strategies for building strong provider-parent relationships. Come learn powerful tactics to use when communicating your concern about a child. Learn effective methods to use when listening to and helping alleviate parent concerns. Attend this workshop and discover how to ensure your parents are huge, raving fans of your staff and program. About Mike Ashcraft.

 

 

Friday, March 12, 2010 9:00am-4:00pm
Dennis Bumgarner, ACSW, LCSW, The Behavior Coach

Helping Kids Solve their problems

With involved adults increasingly less available to today’s kids, their opportunities to learn how to manage the emotional and social challenges of childhood and adolescence have significantly diminished. To address this, this training adapts the concepts and skills of cognitive-behavioral and solution-oriented counseling to the day-to-day interactions that youth workers have with children.

Participants will learn fundamental conceptual notions of these problem-solving approaches and the skills that flow from those concepts as they relate to the everyday, real-world challenges faced by young people. Particular attention will be given regarding kids troubled by anger, anxiety, and depression. Armed with this knowledge, youth workers can transform themselves from mere advice-givers to engaged adults who help young people tap into their personal resources for change as well as learning new approaches for problem-solving.

About Dennis Bumgarner, ACSW, LCSW