FASD Training Possibilities and Child Welfare
Child Welfare Workers
- Updated research including diagnostic guidelines (Canadian)
- General overview of “What is FASD?”
- Principles and strategies for working with children, youth, families
- Working with families affected by FASD
- Best practice approaches
- Multi-systems approaches
- Intergenerational Issues – when parents are alcohol affected
- Navigating systems – (school, justice, CFS, etc)
- “How do I talk to my client (s) about FASD?”
- Understanding and care- fronting resistance and opposition
- Supporting families – pre- during and post –diagnosis
- Limitations versus strengths
- Preventing secondary disabilities
- Risk Reduction and Potential Promotion
- Modifying Treatment Response and Interventions
- FASD sensitive case planning approaches
- Co-occurrence Issues (MH, Addictions, DSM…)
- Transitioning youth to adult services
- Understanding and accessing available resources
Foster Parents and Direct Service/Support Workers
- Alphabet soup of FASD
- Early intervention approaches
- “How do I talk to my child about FASD?”
- How do I take care of my child
- Relationships, Discipline, Learning/Teaching
- Understanding and care- fronting resistance and opposition
- Working with difficult behaviours (‘lying,’ ‘stealing’)
- Principles and strategies for working with children and youth
- Proactive versus reactive approaches
- Balancing limitations and strengths
- Working with families affected by alcohol
- Self-care
Youth Care Workers
- General overview of “What is FASD?” and Canadian diagnosis
- Principles and strategies for working with children and youth
- “How do I talk to youth about FASD?”
- Relationships, Discipline, Learning/Teaching
- Understanding and care- fronting resistance and opposition
- Working with difficult behaviours (‘lying,’ ‘stealing’)
- Proactive versus reactive approaches
- Balancing limitations and strengths
- Preventing secondary disabilities
- Risk Reduction and Potential Promotion
- Modifying Interventions with Youth
- Co-occurrence Issues (MH, Addictions, DSM…)
- Transitioning youth to adult services
- Self-care