Here are short sample videos of our training. Full versions are available.
This essential course provides resource parents with strategies on how to conduct effective short term care for needy children and youth placed into protective custody. Full Play Time: 21:57
Helping Children Adjust to Emergency Care
- Introduction to Helping Children Adjust to Emergency Care
- Protective Custody Placement and Child Trauma
- Helping Children Adjust to New Care Schedules
- Working with the Child Welfare Team Members
- Care Provider Adjustments
- Pop-Up Issues in Care
- Prudent Parent Decision-Making
- Emergency Care Timelines
- Key Elements of Emergency Care
This training presents key child and youth discipline elements care providers can utilize to develop an organized care home environment – for all family members. Full Play Time: 31:37
Creative Discipline in Care
- Introduction to Creative Discipline in Care
- Discipline in Care
- Positive Discipline Model
- Care Home Discipline Reviewed
- Care Home Discipline Basics
- Care Home Discipline Challenges
- Understanding New Children in Care
- Care Home Preparation
- Tailoring the Care Home Discipline System
- Adjusting Using Options
- Creative Discipline in Action Examples
Example 1, Example 2 - Creative Discipline in Care Review
Includes provider supplemental handout*
Home Supervision is a critically important part of quality care for children and youth. This includes monitoring home safety, child management and reporting unusual incidents. Care providers and agency staff will benefit from essential training concepts and case examples. Full Play Time: 34:11
Effective Supervision in Care
- Introduction to Effective Supervision
- Protective Custody Placement
- Supervision Strategies: First Contact
- Care Home Meetings
- Child Monitoring
- Care Provider Role Modeling
- Off-Grounds Activities
- Unusual Incidents in Care
- Case Examples: Introduction
Example 1, Example 2 - Care Provider Professional Mindset
- Effective Supervision in Care: Review
Includes provider supplemental handout
This video concentrates on 4 common child welfare teams – care providers are likely to encounter over time – and how caretakers can provide critical input that helps child services agencies assess child adjustment to home care. Full Play Time: 18:59
Working with Child Welfare Teams
- Goals of the Child Welfare System
- Protective Custody for New Children
- Home Care for New Children
- Behind the Scenes
- Why Child Welfare Teams?
- Child Welfare Team Meeting Types
- Speaking the Team Language
- Home Care Monitoring Tasks
- Reporting Home Care Progress to the Team
- Child Welfare System of Care Updates
- Review and Making a Difference
In this review of an important federal law protecting youth in care, trainees will learn essential RPPS concepts that promote child well-being, normalcy and prudent decision making for children and youth. Full Play Time: 20:11
Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard of Care
- Introduction to RPPS Goals:
- Providing Normalcy for Children in Care
- Helps Youth Testing Boundaries while in Care
- Helps Providers Teaching Youth to Make Good Decisions
- Child Welfare Teams in Action: Examples
- Provider Care Decisions are Reviewed
- Essential Tools for Care Providers
- Provides Positive Adult Role Modeling
- Adjusting to Children in Care over Time
Includes provider supplemental handout
In this course providers will learn how to conduct a home safety inspection circuit using a system crafted by the author. A technique that is simple-to-follow – and implement – helping to ensure the care home remains safe for all family members. Full Play Time: 30:48
Care Home Security
- Introduction To Care Home Security
- Keeping Your Care Home Safe
- Care Home Inspection:
Station 1: Exterior Front of Care Home
Station2: Family Room
Station 3: Kitchen
Station 4: Bathroom and Laundry Area
Station 5: Children’s Room
Station 6: Master Bedroom
Station 7: Rear and Side Yards
Station 8: Pools and Spas
Station 9: Garage
Station 10: Reviewing the Self-Inspection - Care Home Security: Review
- Care Home Self-Inspection and Peace of Mind
Full Play Time: 11:22
Child Records in Care – is designed – to help providers ensure that key confidential child documents – are secured, reviewed and used effectively. And – features two case examples of provider care documents issues.
Child Records in Care
- Introduction to Child Records in Care
- Care Home Organization
- Assemble and Review Child Reports
- Home Care Examples
- Care Example : Quick Planning
- Care Example: Teen Injury
- Child Records in Home Care Review
Includes provider supplemental handout*
Full Play Time: 13:43
Part One of Our MQB2 care provider training centers on important elements of child medication oversight including:
Children’s Medications in Care – Part 1
- Child Medication Storage and Administration
- Working with Health Professionals and Agency Workers
- Medical Issues in Home Care (Examples)
- Medication Care Tactics
- Special Medications for Children and Youth in Care
Includes provider supplemental handout*
Full Play Time: 12:52
In Part 2 of Child Medications in Care – we review psychiatric medication treatment updates – for children and youth in treatment foster care.
Children’s Medications in Care – Part 2
- Psychiatric Medications for Children and Youth
- Treatment Foster Care Training
- Common Psychiatric Child Medications (Examples)
- Psychiatric Medications – Case Example
- The Future of Child Psychiatric Medications
Includes provider supplemental handout*
Full Play Time: 14:19
Our MQB2 Video Series has been structured so that resource care providers can review – and use – key home care strategies – identified as effective – in protective Home Care. These include:
Effective Planning for Children in Home Care
- Home Safety and Organization
- Child Monitoring in Home Care
- CPS Child and Youth Home Care Adjustment Reports
- Resource Provider Training
- Child Collaborative Welfare Teams
- Child and Youth Permanency Goals
Includes provider supplemental handout*