Strive Online for Family Time Providers (eLearning)



Strive Online for Family Time Providers serves to train family time supervisors in the principles for supporting parents, ensuring greater consistency in family time supervision across a state and maximizing the quality of family time. We utilize a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach to increase the quality of family time between parents and their children; reduce the trauma; and increase the likelihood of successful reunification. The course is composed of three parts: Foundational Learning, Tools for Supporting Parents, and a Rapid Training Library.

Target Audience

CASAs
Caregivers (general)
DCYF Social Workers (case carrying)
DCYF Supervisors (case carrying)
Kinship Caregivers
Program Managers
Tribal Workers

Learning Objectives

Foundational Learning: (approximately 3 hours)
Module 1: Engaging Parents:  
•    Define parent engagement and why it matters
•    Understand the principles of cultural humility
•    Identify strategies to engage parents
Module 2: Impact of Trauma on Child Development
•    Understand the five major areas of child development and developmental milestones for children
•    Identify the impact of trauma on child development
•    Describe ways that you help support responsive interactions between parents and their children
Module 3: Trauma-Informed Family Time Services
•    Define the types of trauma and potential traumatic responses in children
•    Define and explain adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how they impact families
•    Identify ways to be trauma-informed during transport and family time
Tools for Supporting Parents (approximately 5 hours)
Module 1: Getting Started with Family Time:
•    Describe the importance of family time for children and parents
•    Use strategies to help parents to prepare for family time
•    Identify ways to develop a collaborative partnership with parents
Module 2: Connect and Reassure:
•    Define attunement and attachment and their connection to healthy development
•    Use strategies to help parents plan to connect with their children during family time
•    Support parents in developing and using a family time routine
Module 3: Safe & Healthy Family Time Environments:
•    Describe ways to improve children's safety during sleeping, eating, and playing
•    Develop a plan with parents to identify potential safety hazards in family time spaces 
•    Support parents in using monitor, celebrate, distract and redirect techniques during family time
•    Understand the purpose and use of calming spaces
Module 4: Communication Counts:
•    Define the different types of communication 
•    Identify the steps to Communicating Using Feelings and Needs (CFN)
•    Model using clear and effective communication with parents and their children 

Module 5: The Importance of Play:
•    Recognize the importance of play in children's development
•    Describe play by stage of development
•    Understand the benefits and steps of child-directed play
•    Support parents in using short periods of child-directed play 
Rapid Training Library (10-15 minutes each)
1.    Intimate Partner Violence and Awareness
2.    Redirecting Inappropriate Conversations
3.    Reducing Challenging Behaviors
4.    Setting Expectations and Boundaries for Family Time
5.    Supporting the Parent-Caregiver Relationship
6.    Supporting Sibling Relationships
7.    Using Trauma-Informed Language with Families
8.    What is Neurodiversity
9.    Supporting Neurodiverse Parents and Children
10.    Working with Racially and Ethnically Diverse Families

Course summary
Course opens: 
03/04/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2035
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