CE: Family Engagement Bootcamp: Establishing Lifetime Networks for Children
Trainers: Kevin Campbell and Jill Borgeson
Ventura County Human Services Agency (Meeting on the second floor)
855 Partridge Drive Ventura
Resource Families, Foster Parents and relative caregivers are invited to attend the 2018 training in Child Welfare Excellence, "Family Engagement Boot Camp: Establishing Lifetime Networks for Children." Internationally renowned Kevin Campbell and our own Jill Borgeson will train caregivers in strategies that successfully establish lifelong supports for children and youth in foster care. Food and child care provided.
Participants will receive training in the following practical skills:
* Family and Safety Network Engagement throughout the life of a case
* Mapping for lifetime safety networks
* Fostering connections with children and youth
Kevin Campbell is an internationally known youth permanency expert, founder of the Center for Family Finding and Youth Connectedness and developer of the Family Finding model. Kevin has helped over 10,000 youth achieve permanency and continues to help up to 80 foster youth per week through his advanced permanency trainings and technical assistance with agencies nationwide. Kevin also played a major role in the passing of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, one of the most significant pieces of child welfare legislation in the last 15 years. Kevin's work has been featured in dozens of national publications including being twice been featured on CBS' 60 MINUTES with Lesley Stahl, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Time Magazine.
Read more: https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/child-welfare-2/path-foster-care-crisis-runs-family/28707
Participants will receive a certificate for 2 hours of training upon completion the class.
Please RSVP directly to Foster VC Kids at by emailing fostervckids@ventura.organd indicate if you will need childcare.
Sponsors: Foster VC Kids and Oxnard & Ventura Colleges FKCE
