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

Family Action Plan Steps 1 Through 9

 

 

Job and Family Services - 

Foster Family Training

The ABC’s of Positive Parenting for Foster Parents

Step 1 Start the habit of having routine family meetings to talk (not lecture) about issues and think together as a family about real life goals

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Step 2 Talk in a conversational style, the way you talk when you are telling about your best friend; give compliments; smile, share ideas

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Step 3 Brainstorm about positive solutions to situations that bother members of the family; think of brainstorming as three-way conferencing, although there may be more than three people there

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Step 4 Use a family meeting notebook to write down all brainstorming ideas: write them in two columns- first strengths, then negative behaviors that impact on the family and need to change

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Step 5 Set the tone for action planning by saying that adults (parents) are in charge, but everyone can help suggest family rules that are important to everybody

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Step 6 Talk about each person's temperament, and how it determines a person's talents, strengths and behavior

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Step 7 Make lists of personal favorites, rewards and privileges that each person can work for; make a list of problems each person will have if the plan is not followed

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Step 8 Give encouragement whenever a person “catches” another person doing or saying the right thing, not just when they are not complying with the plan; catch someone being good!

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Step 9 Remember - Family meetings take place anywhere-in cars, at the store, at the kitchen table, in school or at home; go over the plan and change it, if needed

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