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Foster/GRO/RTC Training
Foster Pride/Mini Pride - These courses are mandatory for foster and adoptive parents. The courses are now offered individually over the course of the month. Parents, CPA's, etc., may now schedule required trainings more easily on a monthly basis. If your company wants these topics offered for your individual group, please contact us for more information on group rates. The topics covered and fees are as follows:
1. Connecting with Pride - Approximately 3 hours.
2. Teamwork Towards Permanence - Approximately 3 hours.
3. Meeting Developmental Needs: Attachment - Approximately 3 hours.
4. Meeting Developmental Needs: Loss - Approximately 3 hours.
5. Strengthening Family Relationships - Approximately 3 hours.
6. Meeting Developmental Needs: Discipline - Approximately 4 hours.
7. Understanding & Responding to the Issues of Sexual Abuse - Approximately 3 hours.
8. Continuing Family Relationships - Approximately 3 hours.
9. Planning for Change - Approximately 3 hours.
10.Taking PRIDE: Making an Informed Decision - Approximately 3 hours.
Other required trainings that are not included in the Pre-Service training module include:
* Transportation Safety * CPR & First Aid * Bloodborne Pathogens. (check calendar for dates, times, and fees)
Physical holds and Restraints initial training - approximately 4 hours $45 per person. (check calendar for dates and times offered)
Physical holds and Restraints renewal training - approximately 2 hours $35 per person. (check calendar for dates and times offered)
Psychotropic Medications Renewal - approximately 2 hours $25 per person. (check calendar for dates and times offered)
Ongoing Connections - This is a module training course designed to assist foster/adoptive parents on making community connections. This course will assist foster/adoptive parents on identifying connections within the community that can assist them; identifying self-concept, etc. The course is 3 hours long. The course covers all levels (check calendar for dates and times offered)
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Annual Training Hour Topics
Annual training must be in areas appropriate to the needs of children for whom the caregiver provides care, which include (but is not limited to):
* developmental stages of children
* constructive guidance and discipline of children
* fostering children's self-esteem
* positive interaction with children
* strategies and techniques for working with the populatin of children served
* supervision and safety practices in the care of children, and
* preventing the spread of communicable diseases (bloodborne pathogens)
Any topic in the pre-service training may also be repeated for annual training hours if needed.
NOTE: Other topics of interest may be listed under Childcare Training, Parenting Classes, CDA/CDDC, or other tabs on the website. Foster/Adoptive parents may take any trainings that Kimbro's Training & Consultation Services offers that are of relevance, interest or important to the agency, parent(s) or provider.
Annual Training Requirements for CPA's
If you/your parent only provide child-care services, programmatic services, and/or treatment services for primary medical needs, then you will require the following training hours:
* if the home has 2 foster parents, the foster parents must receive a total of 20 hours of annual training, of which 4 hours must be on training specific to the emergency behavior interventions allowed by your agency
* for all other caregivers, each caregiver must receive 20 hours of annual trainingt, of which 4 hours must be on training specific to the emergency behavior interventions allowed by your agency
* for foster group homes only, each person's annual training must include 2 hours of transportation safety training if the person transports a child in care whose chronological or developmental age is younger than 9 years old
If you/your parent care for children receiving treatment services for emotional disorders, mental retardation, or pervasive developmental disorders, then you will require the following training hours:
* if the home with 2 foster parents, the foster parents must receive a total of 50 hours of annual training of which 8 hours for each foster parent must be on training specific to the emergency behavior interventions allowed by your agency
* these 50 hours must be distributed appropriately, and each foster parent must receive some amount of training
* for those with 1 foster parent, 30 hours are required, of which 8 hours must be on training specific to the emergency behavior interventions allowed by your agency
* all other caregivers will require 30 hours, of which 8 hours must be on training specific to the emergency behavior inteventions allowed by your agency
* for foster group homes only, each person's annual training must include 2 hours of transportation safety training if the person transports a child in care whose chronological or developmental age is younger than 9 years old
If you/your Child placement staff has less than 1 year of child-placing experience, then you will require the following training hours:
* 30 hours for the initial (first) year
* 20 hours after the initial (first) year
* no annual training requirements for emergency behavior interventions. However, if there is a substantial change in techniques, types of intervention, or agency policies regarding emergency behavior intervention, then the staff must be re-trained
* annual training must include 2 hours of transportation safety training if the person transports a child placed in a foster group home whoch chronological or developmental age is younger than 9 years old.
If you/your Child placement staff with at least 1 year of child-placing experience, then you will require the following training hours:
* 20 hours
* annual hours must include 2 hours of transportation safety training if the person transports a child placed in a foster group home whose chronological or developmental age is younger than 9 years old
* there are no annual training requirements for emergency behavior interventions. However, if there is a substantial change in techniques, types of intervention, or agency policies regarding emergency behavior intevention, then the staff must be re-trained.
Child placement management staff annual hours requirments:
* 20 hours
* hours must include 2 hours of transportation safety training if the person transports a child placed in a foster group home whose chronological or developmental age is younger than 9 years old
* there are no annual training requirements for emergency behavior interventions. However, if there is a substantial change in techniques, types of interventions, or agency policies regarding emergency behavior intervention, then the staff must be re-trained.
Child placement administrators, executive directors, treatment directors, and full-time professional service providers who hold a relevant professional license:
* 15 hours, however, annual hours used to maintain a person's relevant professional license may be used to complete the required hours
* there are no annual training requirements for emergency behavior interventions. However, if there is a substantial change in techniques, types of intervention, or agency policies regarding emergency behavior interventionm then the staff myst be re-trained.
* annual training must include 2 hours of transportation safety training if the person transports a child placed in a foster group home whose chronological or developmental age is younger than 9 years old.
Child placement agency administrators, executive directors, treatment directors, and full-time professional service providers who do not hold a relevant professional license:
* 20 hours
* hours must include 2 hours ot transportation safety training if the person transports a child placed in a foster group home whose chronological or developmental age is younger than 9 years old
* there are no annual training requirements for emergency behavior interventions. However, if there is a substantial change in techniqesm types of interventions, or agency policies regarding emergency behavior intervention, then the staff must be re-trained.
