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Welcome all to the Essentials Newsletter!
Hennepin County is excited to share with you this new email approach to updating you with what is going on in Foster care, Adoption, and Kinship homes. The Newsletter will be sent to your email address quarterly. If there is information that needs to be shared before the next scheduled Newsletter, you will receive an email bulletin.
In the Newsletter you can expect to see articles regarding various topics pertaining to Foster Care/Adoption/Kinship, and Training. In addition, we will be highlighting our success stories and our foster and adoption parents’ milestones. If you would like to share your story please contact your Worker.
To the left of the Newsletter is the Date, Table of Contents, Contact information, Accounting information, and the phone number/email address to Report Child Abuse or Neglect in Hennepin County. The date and Table of Contents will change in this section for each Newsletter. The other information will remain the same for each Newsletter.
If you know of someone that is interested in becoming a foster parent in Hennepin County, or would like to adopt a Hennepin County child, please pass on information for our Informational Training session. Please go to Foster care and click the plus sign next to Attend a foster care information session. For Adoption go to Adoption and click the plus sign next to Adoption information meetings and training.
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*FREE class for Hennepin County licensed families*
Creating Permanency for Foster and Kinship Families with Tina Feigal, M.S., Ed. in Minneapolis
This training is part of an ongoing collaboration with Hennepin County, Lutheran Social Service, Children’s Home Society and Raising Relative’s Children a program at LSS
Presentation:
1. Join author and parent coach Tina Feigal as she discusses the typical barriers to permanency for foster children. Tina knows that when foster placements and adoptions fail, it is often due to the child’s challenging behaviors, which often becomes unmanageable.
2. This training identifies why the typical responses of medication, respite, therapy and displacement often feel unsatisfactory by offering real-life techniques that help create solutions to permanency. This includes:
· Understanding that behaviors are formed in relationships, and are best healed in relationships
· Bolstering ongoing support for parents and children with challenging behaviors
· Building a bridge that promotes healing and engagement for the hurt child
Tina Fegial, M.S., Ed. Is the Director of Family Engagement at Anu Family Services/Center for the Challenging Child. A former school psychologist, a grandmother, and mother to three wonderful sons, Tina’s passion is bringing peace into homes and schools by helping adults heal challenging behaviors with specific, highly effective “Present Moment Parenting and Teaching”. Since 2000, she has operated her business, The Center for the Challenging Child, now a branch of Anu Family Services. As a coach and trainer, Tina supports adults in applying the techniques in her books, The Pocket Coach for Parents and The Pocket Teacher Coach. Tina shares part of her vision that every adult who wants a parent coach can pick up the phone and find one! Tina has been featured as the Minneapolis Star Tribune and KARE 11’s Extra’s “Supernanny”. Learn more about parent coaching and training at www.parentingmojo.com
When: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Check in 6:00 to 6:30pm
Where: Lutheran Social Service
2400 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
*Free parking lot in the back of the building off of Oakland Avenue*
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General Training for Current Foster Parents:
Registration is required, and you must sign up at least three days in advance. Call 612-348-5840, and leave a message, including the class title, your name, your licensing worker's name, and a daytime phone number. You can also register with licensing worker.
Other details:
- You are welcome to bring your own meal. Light snacks will be provided for training classes that are three or more hours.
- Please remember that children are not allowed at any training sessions. Child care is not provided.
For weather cancellations, call 612-348-5840 after 5 p.m.
Initial Training for Relative/Kin Providers:
- April 8th, 2014 1pm-5:30pm. Human Services Building, Room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
- May 15th, 2014 2-5pm. Human Services Building, Room 111, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
- June 10th, 20124 2-5pm. Human Services Building, Room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
Foster Care Information Meeting:
- April 24th, 2014 5:30-8pm. North Regional Library, 1315 Lowry Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411
- May 20th, 2014 5-8pm. Hosmer Library, 347 E 36th St, Minneapolis, MN 55408
Sudden infant death syndrome/shaken baby syndrome and car seat safety
Classes on preventing sudden infant death syndrome and shaken baby syndrome are paired with car seat safety seminars to give busy foster parents the opportunity to take one or both classes on the same night.
Car Seat Training:
All classes are at Human Services Building, Room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
- Thursday March 27th, 2014 6-9:15pm
- Saturday April 5th, 2014 9am-12:15pm
- Tuesday April 15th, 2014 6-9:15pm
- Saturday May 3rd, 2014 9am-12:15pm
- Tuesday May 13th, 2014 6-9:15pm
- Thursday May 29th, 2014 6-9:15pm
- Saturday June 14th, 2014 9am-12:15pm
- Tuesday June 24th, 2014 6-9:15pm
- Thursday July 10th, 2014 6-9:15pm
SIDS/Shaken Baby:
All classes are at Human Services Building, Room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
- Thursday March 27th, 2014 4:30-6pm
- Saturday April 5th, 2014 12:30-2pm
- Tuesday April 15th, 2014 4:30-6pm
- Saturday May 3rd, 2014 12:30-2pm
- Tuesday May 13th, 2014 4:30-6pm
- Thursday May 29th, 2014 4:30-6pm
- Saturday June 14th, 2014 12:30-2pm
- Tuesday June 24th, 2014 4:30-6pm
- Thursday July 10th, 2014 4:30-6pm
*SIDS/Shaken Baby Syndrome and car seat classes are free only to Hennepin County foster parents. Class fees for private agencies and certain other individuals are $25 for sessions fewer than four hours and $50 for sessions that last more than four hours. Prepayment for classes is preferred but payments will be accepted at the door. No cash payment; checks or money orders only, made out to the Hennepin County Treasurer.
Discipline and Permanency Issues for Children:
May 3rd, 2014 8am-5pm. Human Services Building, Room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
Recognizing Early Warning Signs:
May 5th, 2014 5pm-9pm. Human Services Building, Room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
Recognizing Early Warning Signs of Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents – is a three hour class that builds an understanding of typical development, early warning signs in children and youth, and an understanding of mental illnesses and their impact on students at school. Participants will learn strategies to help students as well as suicide warning signs and resources.
- Understand typical development
- Identify early warning signs in children and youth
- Understanding mental illnesses and their impact on students at school
- Learn how to talk to parents about mental health concerns
- Learn strategies to help
- Learn suicide warning signs and resources
Crisis Planning for Families (Mental Health Training):
June 4th, 2014 6-9pm. Human Services Building, room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
Mental Health Crisis Planning for Families - Having a child with challenging behaviors or mental illness can be stressful and at times families need help. Learn the role of county crisis teams, de-escalation techniques and how to create effective crisis plans. This workshop also provides information about resources in the community. Class is approved for one-hour training for foster care families.
Foster care adoption option training:
Wednesday, June 18, 6-9 p.m.at the Hennepin County Health Services Building, Room 112, 525 Portland Avenue South, Minneapolis
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Adopting from Foster Care: Our Adoption Day Story
Kristen Howerton is a marriage and family therapist and professor of psychology at Vanguard University, California. She is the author of the blog Rage Against the Minivan, where she explores issues of identity, race, adoption, parenting, and the sometimes embarrassing indignities of motherhood. In addition to her own blog Kristen is the editor of ShePosts, an online magazine dedicated to women in social media. She is also a regular contributor to Disney’s parenting site Babble, as well as to Huffington Post and OC Family Magazine. Kristen has made numerous television appearances to talk about parenting issues, including CNN, The View, The Ricki Lake Show, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. In the spring of 2010, Kristen lost her long and passionate battle against the minivan. It now sits in her driveway covered in crushed cheerios and remnants of her self-esteem. ~ Micha Boyett, Patheos.com
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