Toward Successful Adoption: Training for Foster Care & Adoption Workers

This full-day training is approved for six social work continuing credit units and is designed for foster care and adoption workers who are working with foster families and others who are adopting children from the child welfare system.

AM Session: Temperament, Attachment, Trauma & the Brain, Grief & Loss & Common Diagnosis:
How to Better Understand the Children You Are Working With

This three-hour session will focus on the unique needs of children who are being adopted from the child welfare system. The focus will be on the interplay between children’s temperament, attachment styles, trauma, grief and loss, and diagnostic labels. Information will be disseminated that is designed to help caseworkers gain an understanding of the needs of children in foster care to enhance their work with families interested in adopting these children.

PM Session: Helping Children & Families Make Transitions to Adoption

This three-hour session is designed to help participants look at how best to prepare and support foster families and others who are adopting children from the foster care system. Information will be provided about shifting dynamics in foster families who are planning to adopt as well as helping children and families when adoption means moving children. Improving effectiveness in collaboration between foster care and adoption staff during adoption transitions will also be explored.

This program is funded by the Michigan Department of Human Services, thus registration is FREE.

Find all the details and registration instructions in the attachment below.

The Michigan State University School of Social Work Continuing Education Fall 2010 Catalog features courses in adoption, crisis intervention with children, ethics, pain management, psychoeducational groups, self-care, and much more! On November 12-13 is an Art & Play Therapy conference, with renowned art therapist Cathy Malchiodi. Click here to find a downloadable catalog and online registration.

Back by popular demand, MSU School of Social Work is holding on July 14–16 the second annual Great Lakes Summer Institute (GLSI), a professional development experience comprised of two-day, one-day, and half-day intensive courses on a variety of current topics taught by experts in their fields. Designed to blend meaningful learning with maximum relaxation, the GLSI is held at the Great Wolf Lodge in beautiful Traverse City. A special room rate is available to GLSI attendees until June 15, 2010, so register today! Find details about the GLSI and the entire CE Summer 2010 Catalog at the School’s website: http://www.socialwork.msu.edu/ and/or download the full summer catalog below.