The ABCs to Foster Care is our parent training course.This is an eight session course, developed to train, support, and educate you on becoming a “Teaching Parent” As a teaching parent you will be given the skills needed to effetely nurture, support and redirect the youth placed in your home.Experienced Parent Educators provide a curriculum which is based on theABC model and the Parent Skills Training: Teaching and Learning with Children in Care developed by People Place, Inc.
What you will learn and gain from the course:
Build upon a set of "core" postive parenting skills
Excercises will help you focus on yourself and your families needs
Focus on self-awareness and self-management to help all parents be mindful of their own attitudes and behaviors as they seek to help youth with theirs
Formation of deep meaningful trusting relationships with the youth
Ability to empathize - to accurately read and respond to a child's feeling
Build on effective communication
An understanding of the nature of true "disciple" as an internalized set of principles that guides behaviors rather than as a set of external punishment procedures
