#9325 Our Home - Your Home & A Common Sense Guide to Culture and Foster Care

Combined Trainer's Guide

The Guide includes four types of trainer's tools: A outline the Workbook; a list of transparency masters and handouts; a set of overhead transparency masters plus additional extra study materials serving to expand the training; and, a set of handouts to support the content of the Workook but in addition to the content of the Workbook. The Trainer's Guide does include a copy of the Workbook and the Common Sense Handbook. Combined Set contains the content of both trainer's guides.

#9325 $60.00

Our Home - Your Home
A Parenting Skills Workbook for Foster Families

Gary A. Crow, Ph.D. & Letha I. Crow, MSW

The Workbook: Curriculum Objectives

  • To use a diagnostic approach i.e., to recognize signs of difficulty in the child\youth, to understand the significance of the signs, and to work with the child\youth to minimize their negative affects.
  • To understand the interrelationship and influence of the child's past and present environments in shaping his/her personality, adjustment, and behavior.
  • To identify the most common signs of problems and difficulties occurring with school-age foster children.
  • To increase skills in documenting and communicating observations as part of the child's treatment team.
  • To increase awareness and use of specialized foster parenting skills such as communication, acceptance and support, logical and natural consequences, teaching life management skills, and using family, agency, and community resources.
  • To increase knowledge and skills that enable foster parents to better understand and help foster children with problems related to: stress, low self-esteem, school and learning problems, interpersonal difficulties, behavior problems, suicidal feelings and behavior, and mental illness.

The Workbook focuses on helping the child\youth with stress; helping the child\youth with low self-esteem; helping the child\youth with learning and school problems; helping the child\youth get along with other people; helping the child\youth with behavior problems; helping the child\youth with suicidal thoughts and feelings; and, helping the mentally ill child\youth.

#9321 Our Home - Your Home: Book One $13.00 Ea. 10+ Copies-$9.90 Ea.

#9323 - A Common Sense Guide to Culture and Foster Care

A Handbook for Foster Families

Culture is a lot of things. It is art and music. It is history and architecture. Culture is how people dress and what they like to eat. It is science and literature. It is all that defines a group of people. In this book, however, our main interest is in the behavior, attitudes, and adjustment of foster children. Within this important context, foster parents learn to be culturally sensitive and responsive to foster children placed with them. They learn about cultural elements, cultural differences, and prejudice.

They then learn about cultural ingredients and outcomes and how they can be either desirable or undesirable. Using cultural elements from several groups, foster parents learn how to evaluate the elements. With the assistance of the trainer, they also may add elements of their own. Through this activity, foster parents learn when to support and nurture the child's culture and when there are problems needing their attention.

They next learn how to get to know their foster children's culture. They learn what they need to observe, what questions to ask, and what they should tell each child about the foster family's culture.

Finally, foster parents learn about child development. They see how culture shapes the developing child. In the final activity, they are challenged to identify positive cultural elements in their foster children. They finish by explaining how they will support and nurture them. In this section of the book, the trainer has a special opportunity to enrich the learning experience by adding insights and information about the specific cultural groups of children with whom the participants will be working. The overall cultural goal is to help each foster child become the best he or she can be, with style and pride, all the time, on purpose.

#9323- $6.50 Ea., 10+ Copies - $5.55 Ea.

#9324 A Common Sense Guide to Culture and Foster Care: Trainer's Guide

In support of #9323 A Common Sense Guide to Culture and Foster Care - A Handbook for Foster Families the Trainer's Guide provides a twelve page monograph utilizing Training Tips for each of the also provided seventeen (17) overhead transparency masters. The Trainer's Guide is packaged in a doubled pocketed presentation folder. The Trainer's Guide also includes a copy of #9323 A Common Sense Guide to Culture and Foster Care - A Handbook for Foster Families.

#9324 A Common Sense Guide to Culture and Foster Care: Trainer's Guide - $20.00 Each.