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An Introduction to DCF's Case Practice Model- 3 Credit Hours |
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In this training, you will learn about the Case Practice Model that is used by the Department, the mission and outcomes of DCF, the families and children that they serve, the values and principles that underlie everything that they do at DCF and most importantly for you, what you can expect to see from DCF staff as they move forward to fully implement this model.
Hours: 3
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All About Asthma- 3 Credit Hours |
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In this course, emphasis is given to recognizing and treating asthma attacks, including technical information on prevention relievers, nebulizers, and peak flow meters.
Hours: 3
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Autism Across the Spectrum- 3.5 Credit Hours |
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This course offers an insightful look into the developmental disability of autism. It focuses on the causes and characteristics of autism, different treatment strategies, and educational philosophies from two private schools for children with autism.
Hours: 3.5
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Bullying: It's A Real Problem- 4 Credit Hours |
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An overview of the different forms of bullying, general characteristics of a child who bullies and a child who is bullied, short and long-term effects, and how to recognize warning signs. The course will discuss the importance of adult intervention and bully prevention in schools and at home. It will offer strategies for helping children who are involved in bullying. It will also touch on workplace bullying.
Hours: 4
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Chew on This! A Guide to Diet and Nutrition- 4 Credit Hours |
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This course was designed to be a guide for you to educate and motivate yourself into eating healthy. For children and adults alike, this course discusses healthy ways to lose weight, manage weight and eat appropriately for every body type!
Hours: 4
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Childhood Allergies- 3 Credit Hours |
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The incidence of allergies in childhood has increased significantly in the last two decades. This course will look at what allergies are and how a child develops them; it will go through the different types of allergies and their treatments. It will also cover myths about allergies and discuss in detail of the 2 most common allergies.
Hours: 3
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Communication: A Two Way Street- 4 Credit Hours |
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The communication process between adults and children are similar, but the process of receiving and decoding the message can be very different. This course develops the process of sending messages and decoding messages between adults and children. Learn about the styles of communication and develop your skills to determine the proper meanings of messages.
Hours: 4
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Disaster Preparedness Part 1: Preparing Your Family- 3 Credit Hours |
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Part 1 of 4: This course will cover important steps of preparation such as developing a family emergency plan, making emergency kits, and how to psychologically prepare children for disastrous events. It will also discuss the types of natural disasters most common to New Jersey so you know what to expect.
Hours: 3
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Disaster Preparedness Part 2: Staying Safe During an Emergency- 3 Credit Hours |
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In part two of this four part training series, you will learn how to protect your family while a disaster is occurring.
Hours: 3
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Disaster Preparedness Part 3: Recover and Coping with Disaster- 3 Credit Hours |
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In the third part of this four-part training series, you will begin to learn how to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of a disaster. As a committed resource parent, you may be accustomed to always being the one to help others, instead of the one asking for help. This course will detail the many types of assistance available following catastrophic events so you are aware of the resources available to you and your family.
Hours: 3
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Disaster Preparedness Part 4: More than Mother Nature- 3 Credit Hours |
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In the fourth and final part of the disaster preparedness series, you will find out more about man-made disasters such as acts of terrorism, hazardous materials accidents and active shooter scenarios. This course will teach you what to do in these situations and how to help your children through them.
Hours: 3
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Educational Stability Act- 1.5 Credit Hours |
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This course covers the Educational Stability, which ensures the stable education of kinship, foster, and adoptive children throughout New Jersey. It will discuss changing school districts, transportation, the NJFC Scholars program, and other important topics that will help you provide the most stable educational experience possible for children in your care.
Hours: 1.5
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From X-ray Vision Carrots to BMI's, Dealing with Childhood Obesity- 3 Credit Hours |
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This course will explore the growing concern among parents and caregivers of childhood obesity and what roles they can play in the child’s weight loss and lifestyle changes. It will look at the causes of obesity, explore ways you can get your child involved in exercise and how to get him/her to eat fruits and vegetables. This course will also teach you to calculate the Body Mass Index and what is a good number to be at for all ages.
Hours: 3
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Gangs - The Need to Belong- 2 Credit Hours |
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This course will give an overview of the gang culture, tips on how to recognize if your child is becoming involved in a gang, and what you can do as a parent to help prevent that involvement from occurring. You will also learn the many reasons some young people join gangs.
Hours: 2
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Grasping the Core Policies of CP&P- 2.5 Credit Hours |
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The New Jersey Department of Children and Families serves and safeguards vulnerable children and families in the state. In order to do so, policies had to be established. There is a lot of technical information in these policies relating to your child in out of home placement. As a resource parent, you need to understand this information and know where to find it quickly. This course will give examples of important policies and define terms you will need to understand.
Hours: 2.5
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Hair Care for African-American and Biracial Children and Adolescents- 3 Credit Hours |
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This course will cover basic hair care for African-American/Biracial children, teens and babies. It will discuss appropriate tools, products and daily hair care management. It will provide carious styling techniques and highlight common hair styles for girls and boys. This online course contains a 43 minute video presentation done by a licensed professional hair stylist.
Hours: 3
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Human Trafficking: What You Need to Know- 2 Credit Hours |
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As a resource parent, it is important for you to learn about human trafficking because the children placed in your home are at an increased risk of being trafficked. Human trafficking involves commercial sex acts, labor or services that are induced through force, fraud or coercion. In this course, you will learn about both sex trafficking and labor trafficking, how to recognize the signs that your child might be a victim, and how to implement prevention strategies in your home.
Hours: 2
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Issues in Kinship Care- 3.5 Credit Hours |
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This course will discuss issues that are faced by kinship caregivers, including social and emotional challenges, discipline, self-care, getting help and legal issues. It will discuss kinship legal guardianship and adoptive, and detail the legal and financial differences between the two. it will also provide information about mediation as an option to resolving issues concerning children in the care of DCP&P.
Hours: 3.5
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Meditation- 2.5 Credit Hours |
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Throughout this module, you will learn a brief history and several different types of meditation that can be helpful for both you as a parent and the youth you care for. The benefits of meditation and ways to tailor it to specific populations such as children with AD/HD and autism are explained. You will be provided with practical ways to incorporate some form of meditation into your family’s daily routine, and the opportunity to complete a meditation. This course also includes a guided meditation you can revisit at any time by clicking on the resources tab on your online training account.
Hours: 2.5
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Navigating Transportation in New Jersey- 2 Credit Hours |
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Traveling on trains and buses can be overwhelming for the first-time rider, but navigating public transportation is a useful life skill that is worthy of learning. This training explains the different types of transportation available as well as transportation etiquette. It also covers how to prepare for and take trips, and goes into detail about accessible services. It is recommended to share the information in this course with older youth in your care.
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NJFC Scholars: Gaining Access To Post-Secondary Education- 1.75 Credit Hours |
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This training, developed by the FAFS Scholarship Department, will help guide you through the ins and outs of the NJFC Scholars Program, designed to help students in foster care gain greater access to post-secondary education.
Hours: 1.75
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NJFC Scholars: Post-High School Options for Youth- 1.5 Credit Hours |
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This course, developed by the FAFS Scholarship Department, is aimed at showing you how to help children in your care make the most of their various post-High School opportunities.
Hours: 1.5
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On Solid Ground: Permanency Planning for Children in Care- 2.5 Credit Hours |
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This course looks at the available methods and procedures used for achieving permanency in the life of a child in care. It explores the critical, psychological and social impact on a child when permanency is not achieved within a reasonable time frame. The course develops the role of the resource parent as an advocate for permanency and offers insights into the resulting feelings of loss.
Hours: 2.5
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Positive Discipline: It can work for you- 3.5 Credit Hours |
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This course will explain the difference between discipline and punishment. It covers different methods of positive discipline and the reasons for choosing them.
Hours: 3.5
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Preparing Your Home For Office of Licensing Inspections- 2 Credit Hours |
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This course develops and explains the process, actions and procedures of an Office of Licensing inspection. This course also offers tips to making your home compliant!
Hours: 2
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Schizophrenia in Childhood and Adolescence- 4 Credit Hours |
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This course provides an in-depth look at schizophrenia, a debilitating mental illness, by examining the causes, symptoms, and current treatment options. In addition, this course includes important information for caregivers on substance abuse, suicide, and violence as they relate to children and adolescents who have schizophrenia.
Hours: 4
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Self-Injury: That Hurt and I Did it Myself- 3.5 Credit Hours |
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This course will explain self-injurious behaviors with a specific focus on cutting, which is self-mutilation with sharp objects like razors.
Hours: 3.5
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Sleep Disorders in Children- 5.5 Credit Hours |
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This course discusses the most commonly experienced sleep disorders in children and the phenomenon of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Hours: 5.5
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Social Emotional Learning: An Introduction (SEL)- 4 Credit Hours |
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Social Emotional Learning: An Introduction (SEL) focuses on what social emotional learning is, why it is important for school and life success, how childhood development and the brain relate to social emotional skills, and more!
Hours: 4
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Special Education: Answers to Important Questions- 3.5 Credit Hours |
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The course provides useful information on the complex maze known as the special education system. We will help you find your way by providing information concerning the Child Study Team, Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), current laws, and the various classifications of learning disabilities.
Hours: 3.5
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Stress is Stressing Me Out!- 4 Credit Hours |
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Are you aware of the signs of stress you may be exhibiting? Do you know how to effectively deal with the stress in your life? This course will examine what stress is, the causes, warning signs and symptoms that adults, teenagers and children may experience. It will also offer useful and practical techniques on how to relieve the stress present in your life and your children's lives.
Hours: 4
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*Successfully Dealing with Lying Behaviors- 3 Credit Hours |
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This course on the behavior of lying in children will help you understand why children lie. This course discusses ways you can recognize when a child is lying and how to appropriately react when lied too. This course also discusses ways to help children stop this behavior and ways to distinguish between lying as a learned behavior, compared to lying connected to the effects of mental disorders.
Hours: 3
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The Child Health Program and You- 2 Credit Hours |
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This course was written by the child health nurses of NJ. This course thoroughly discussing the recent changes to the Department of Children and Families "Child Health Program." "The Child Health Program and You" discusses the ways the health needs of a child in placement will be planned, met and monitored.
Hours: 2
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Trans-racial Trans-cultural Part 1- 2 Credit Hours |
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This course is Part 1 of a two-part series. It will discuss various aspects of caring for a child of a different race or culture. It will talk about the challenges that families may face, define culture, look at societal issues, discuss childhood identity, and explore caregiver motivations for wanting to care for a child of a different race or culture.
Hours: 2
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Trans-racial Trans-cultural Part 2- 2.75 Credit Hours |
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This course is Part 2 of a two-part course. It will discuss elements involved in the process of preparing for change and the development positive racial and cultural identity. It will provide strategies for dealing with awkward or intrusive questions, including the CENTER Method and different response techniques. It will also discuss how the child may interpret awkward or intrusive questions.
Hours: 2.75
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Understanding and Supporting LGBTQI Youth in Care- 3.5 Credit Hours |
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This course covers the basics of LGBTQI youth in care.
Hours: 3.5
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Understanding Child Development: Helping Children Become All They Can Be- 4 Credit Hours |
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This highly interactive online course employs a range of e-learning technology to explore the developmental journey children take, accomplishing necessary skills and abilities as they grow. It also looks at the important role resource parents play in facilitating the development of those skills and abilities and alerting others to developmental delays. The course focuses primarily on development from birth to age twelve.
Hours: 4
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Under One Roof: Keeping Siblings Together- 3 Credit Hours |
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This online course looks at the importance and dynamics of sibling relationships and the impact on siblings in care who are separated from each other. The course discusses the benefits, challenges, and barriers to placing siblings together from the perspective of the children, the agency, the resource parent, and the biological parents.
Hours: 3
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*Visitation: A Path To Healing- 2 Credit Hours |
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This course develops and explains the issues surrounding visitation both before and after in care placement. Discussing topics such as resource parents roles in visitation as well as tips to make visitation easier on yourself and your in-care children.
Hours: 2
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