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Effects of Removal & Placement on Children & Their Parents

Effects of Removal & Placement on Children & Their Parents

Monday, November 24, 2014

Core Curriculum Course: Trauma: Effects of removal and placement on children,
effects of removal on parents and how to address it

When children are removed from their parents’ care, there are emotional, physiological, and mental consequences
that are best understood as a trauma response. Their parents most often experience the effects of removal in these same
areas, which affects their ability to engage with workers, engage with their children, and participate in services. This
workshop will identify common reactions of children and their parents, while exploring methods of responding to children
that promote an understanding of their experience of removal, and maximize their parent’s ability to cope and engage in
services. This workshop will utilize role playing, exercises, small and large group discussions, and visual displays.

Date/time: January 23, 2014 • 8:45 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Western Michigan University, College of Health & Human Services
1240 Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Social Work CECHs: 6 hours • Approval pending
Cost: Free to all MDHHS and private agency child welfare workers; $110 all others
Presenters: Connie Black-Pond, MA

Target audience:
-Children’s Protective Services Workers
-Foster Care Workers
-Adoption Workers

Training objectives: As a result of this workshop, participants will be prepared to:
• Identify three consequences of removing a child and methods of responding to minimize traumatization.
• Identify three ways that parents often respond to their children’s removal from their care and methods of responding to maximize their engagement,
including how to respond to their children the first time they visit.
• Identify five brief interventions to foster a child’s accurate understanding of their move into placement.
• Prepare children and parents for visitation.

How to register: https://secure.touchnet.net/C21782_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=1&CATID=3
Contact: Rebecca Schrock-Herdeck
Phone: 269-387-3158
E-mail: rebecca.schrock-herdeck@wmich.edu
Website: http://www.wmich.edu/socialwork/academics/continuing
 

To receive in-service training credit, your training facility coordinator must document completion on OTP/JJOLT. For questions regarding documentation of in-service training on OTP/JJOLT contact the Help Desk at DHS-CWTIOTP@michigan.gov or call (313) 465-2603.