Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Educational Advocacy

Location

Dining Hall

When you take foster children, many times their education has never been a priority for anyone. How do you advocate for your child’s education? How do you help them get to grade level? How do you get an IEP for your child?
Our presenter: Sue Hines Educational Advocate for JCCD
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team;
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

RAD respite

Location

Dining Hall

Susan Peach suspeach@gmail.com

Time

8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

CPR/First Aid

Location

Dining Hall

Joanie Stover jstover50@aol.com

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Allegations- How do you plan for the before, during, and after of allegations.

Location

Dining Hall

Most of us know that its not if you get a hotline, its when. What are some things you can do to prevent it? How do you manage it when you get that call? How do you move forward after the hotline?
Our presenters: Jennifer Johnson and Tammy Spears foster parent
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team;

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Planned Moves- Planning transitions from family to family.

Location

Dining Hall

How do we make child focused plans for transitions? When do you tell the child? How do you get to the best plans? Should you ask for stability staffing before you give notice?
Our presenters: Virginia Fatseas
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team;
o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal;
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

STARS Pre Service

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 2/4/2012 until 2/25/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainers :TBD

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

STARS Pre Service

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 2/4/2012 until 2/25/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainers :TBD

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Addiction prone kids- Why is it that our children in foster care/former foster children who have been adopted seem so prone to addictions?

Location

Dining Hall

Pills, pot, pornography, and all items in-between? How do we help them? What are good strategies to help them gain more control over the things that seem to control them??
Our presenters: Regina Staves, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Avila University
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;
Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team;

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

STARS Pre Service

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 2/4/2012 until 2/25/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainers :TBD

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

STARS Pre Service

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 2/4/2012 until 2/25/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainers :TBD

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Sibling Abuse- You have taken a sibling group and not they are hurting each other?

Location

Dining Hall

How do you change that unhealthy family dynamic in your home? Do you separate the children? Do you suggest that to the team? Physical, sexual, and psychological abuse does occur in sibling groups, how do you ease the pain and keep children together?
Our presenters: Kealey Williams
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;
o    Support the relationship between children and their parents, siblings and kin to the fullest Our extent;
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team;

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Older Youth- How so we move them forward for success?

Location

Dining Hall

How do we prepare them for adult living? How do we address getting them into college? What if college is not in the plans, what then? What is out there for our youth?
Our presenters: Joe Seabrooke @mcc
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team;
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;
o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

LGBTQ- How do we support families and children that are a part of this community?

Location

Dining Hall

What hurdles to our children in care face beyond being in foster care? How do our foster and adoptive parents navigate the system when their families don’t look like the traditional view of families? Our own support group leaders are going to share some real facts and some helpful information to help us all support ALL foster/adoptive families and children in care.
Lynn Barnett, LMSW MidAmerican Family Treatment Center LLC
o Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Homeless youth- It may be difficult to even conceive it but there are many of our children that age out, run away, and otherwise find themselves homeless.

Location

Dining Hall

How is this addressed in the school districts? What programs are there to provide help to these young people?
Our Presenters: Macha Greenleaf-Maple Homeless youth program director in Independence school district.
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team
o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

Stars Pre-Service

Location

Drumm Farm Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 4/28/2012 until 5/19/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainer : TBD

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

Stars Pre-Service

Location

Drumm Farm Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 4/28/2012 until 5/19/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainer : TBD

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

Stars Pre-Service

Location

Drumm Farm Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 4/28/2012 until 5/19/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainer : TBD

Time

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Subject

Stars Pre-Service

Location

Drumm Farm Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs every Saturday effective 4/28/2012 until 5/19/2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Trainer : TBD

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Transcultural parenting- What on earth, there is more than just skin color when it comes to culture?

Location

Dining Hall

How many times have we thought that was it? We were wrong! Culture of families is as varied as it gets. Christian families, Muslim families, single parent families, two mom families, children grow up with cultural identity of those they are raised with. How do we accurately address those cultural norms children come to us with? How can we be sensitive and accommodate them without having to give up your own identity?
Our presenter: Heidi Elmore and Tanisha Bronston
o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Health care assessments and needs for adolescents

Location

Dining Hall

It is frequently difficult to manage the needs of our teens in care. Shots, vitamins, birth control, and beyond are valid concerns for parents these days. What shots should you opt in for or opt out? How do we know?
Our Presenters: Daryl Lynch Director of Adolescent Services CMH
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;
Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;

Time

8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

CPR/First Aid

Location

Dining Hall

Joanie Stover HYPERLINK "mailto:jstover50@aol.com" jstover50@aol.com

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Parenting Across Racial Lines

Location

Dining Hall

Its more than hair and skin! Although those things are super important, families that are allowing their love to know no boundaries need some help parenting across racial lines? How do you integrate a child into your family while still addressing and respecting that child’s need for their own cultural competence?
Our presenters: Joseph N. Beck, MSW, LCSW
Community Support Supervisor
o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Five Love Languages of Children

Location

Dining Hall

How does your children learn to love? What ways do they need to be shown affection so that they can receive it in the way that means the most? How can you figure out what their language is and how to do the things you need to as parents to meet your child’s need for love when your styles vary?
Presenter: Susan Peach LMSW Lifeworks Family Treatment Group
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs
o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Residential Treatment centers- How do we get children in, through, and successfully out of these programs?

Location

Dining Hall

How do children earn their levels and move through treatment to return home healthier people?
Our presenters: Michelle Pendzimas, Director of Therapy at Spofford
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team
o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

CPR/First Aid

Location

Dining Hall

Joanie Stover jstover50@aol.com

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

What to do when your child is a bully/tease/or a victim

Location

Dining Hall

Bullying had become a deadly problem with today’s teens. It is no longer just harmless taunting but has extended itself into the cyber world as well as pushing many youths to suicide. How do we address the needs of all parties in bullying?
Our presenters: Ken Johnson/Rudy Summerfield
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team;

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Parenting traumatized children

Location

Dining Hall

How can we parent children that have experienced trauma without traumatizing ourselves? How do we protect ourselves from PTSD and similar maladies? How do we prevent foster/adoptive parent burnout? How do we avoid adoption/placement disruptions?
Presenter: Bethany Roberts, M.S.W., J.D. The Strong Families Project KU School of Social Welfare

o    Help connect children to safe and nurturing lifetime relationships, with reunification with parents or kin as the primary goal
o    Work collaboratively with the agency as an effective and essential member of a professional team

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Parenting Children With Multiple Diagnosis

Location

Dining Hall

How do you manage children with multiple challenges? Which diagnosis takes precedence and how do you plan for helping that child make progress? What goals do you use and how do you measure success?
Our presenters: Diane Moran, Clinical Director of the Developmental and Behavioral Sciences Clinic at Children’s Mercy Hospital
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Putting dignity in discipline

Location

Dining Hall

how do we take all the yelling an anger out of teaching children to make better choices. Realistically speaking how can parents teach replacement behaviors without blowing up? Strategies to teach children to change as we show them positive ways of manage frustration.
Presenter: Justin Newkirk, LMSW Lifeworks Family Treatment Group

o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

What does it take to prosecute a parent for abuse?

Location

Dining Hall

Many times our children come into care for situations that seem to merit law enforcement seeking to press charges to protect the child and other children in the community. What documentation is necessary for justice to be served in our cases that seem so heinous, the have to be prosecuted? How do you prepare children and their caregivers for this process?
Our presenter: Sgt. Phil Hininger, Sex Crimes unit, IPD
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served

Time

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Subject

Bist in the Schools

Location

Dining Hall

what is Bist and what does it look like in the schools? Many of you have taken the courses and now implement this program in your home. What does it look like at school? Are you all on the same page? Does it really work?
Our presenters: Trudy Lee or Linda Hosman
o    Protect and nurture children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, emotionally maltreated, abandoned, neglected and/or who have special medical needs;
o    Meet the developmental needs of these children and address their developmental delays;

Time

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Subject

RAD support group

Location

Dining Hall

Recurrence

Occurs the first Wednesday of every 1 month effective 1/4/2012 until 12/5/2012 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Mary LeFebvre
Lunch will be served