Workshops/How To Work With Families

• Child Focus
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Foster Parent Training - Options For Youth
• Inclusion in Schools: Real and Perceived Views of Full Inclusion - Dark Ages? Bright Futures
• Infants and Toddlers in Your Care: How to Nurture 0-3 Year-Olds in Group Care and at Home
• Learning and Teaching Styles
• Preparing Personnel to Work With Parents and Families
• Reducing Stress in the Lives of Young Chlldren
• Sample Forms for Teachers
• Ask Dr. Susan

First Aid

 

Job and Family Services - Foster Family Training

The ABC’s of Positive Parenting for Foster Parents

 

I.   THESE ARE EMERGENCY ACTION PRINCIPLES - CERTIFICATION IS ESSENTIAL;  Take a Red Cross Course

 

 

A.  Supplies - make a kit and place it in the kitchen; place second one in the bathroom; buy mouth guard, rubber gloves and plastic bags.

 

 

B.  Safe rescue for breathing, bleeding, poisoning, choking, burns, punctures and rashes:

 

                        Assess the situation - “Are you okay”? - observe carefully 

 

                        Care (head tilt, chin lift)  slow check  2 slow full breaths, 1 every 5 seconds

 

                        Telephone - when safe

 

1. Breathing - use CPR - watch carefully, have another person monitor the air puffs
2. Bleeding - use heel of hand; elevate; keep pressure constant
3. Poisoning - call 9-1-1, administer Ipecac syrup, side position
4. Choking or obstruction - fist into abdomen, lift, Heimlich maneuver from rear position, or                                    
   front chest lift
5. Burns - no butter, no ice, nothing, or cool water
6. Puncture wounds, abrasions - knees and elbows - clean with soap and water/astringent,  
   pretreated pads, large gauze pads laid loosely over wound, taped - no vaseline
7. Rashes, bee stings, hives - ice therapy