Family Strengthening Course Resources
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Lesson 101
- TEAM for West Virginia Children
- Training opportunities
These online training courses are designed to provide users with materials on partnering with families and addressing promising strategies to strengthen families for practitioners. Users can either take the course for free without receiving CEU’s or state credit or pay $15 for 0.2 CEUs or state credit.
- Training opportunities
- ACEs Trainings
These online trainings are designed to help users understand, recognize, and prevent ACEs from occurring in the first place. There is an introductory Training Module as well as modules with information for professionals working directly with and on behalf of kids and families. - Connecting the Dots
A free, online training that helps users implement prevention strategies that address shared risk and protective factors across multiple forms of violence. - Promoting Positive Community Norms
This guide provides information about creating a context for increasing safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families by promoting positive community norms. - Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments for All Children
This document describes a framework to guide community activities that will support safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and their families.
Lesson 201
- ACEs Trainings
These online trainings are designed to help users understand, recognize, and prevent ACEs from occurring in the first place. There is an introductory Training Module as well as modules with information for professionals working directly with and on behalf of kids and families. - Promoting Positive Community Norms
This guide provides information about creating a context for increasing safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families by promoting positive community norms. - Connecting the Dots
A free, online training that helps users implement prevention strategies that address shared risk and protective factors across multiple forms of violence. - Children’s Trust Fund Training Alliance
This training helps providers obtain new materials on how they can partner with parents and learn new strategies for strengthening families. - Brazelton Training
This training helps providers learn the challenges that providers, families, and children face inclduing culturally responsive relationships, surfacing implicit bias, working towards racial equity and inclusion, productive conversations about sensitive concerns, trauma, resilience, and healing, and mental-health, well-being, and self-care.
Lesson 301
- Principles of Strength Based Practice
This resource discusses the principles of strength-based practice, implementing strength-based practice, and outcomes of strength-based practices. - Solution focused therapy
This article discusses the implementation and importance of Solution Focused Therapy. - Children’s Trust Fund Training Alliance
This training helps providers obtain new materials on how they can partner with parents, and learn new strategies for strengthening families.