FCSP offers trainings for frontline workers, supervisors and administrators in child welfare, mental health, social service, health care and educational settings.  We customize our workshops to fit the needs of your particular agency or program, and have offerings that are applicable to outpatient mental health clinics, child welfare and mental health residential settings, home-based and school-based settings, hospitals and community health clinics, educational settings and child protective services.  We have worked with a variety of community agencies and state departments to develop single workshops, multi-session training series, and intensive year-long professional development programs.

Some of the trainings we offer include:

*  Collaborative helping: A practice framework for family centered services  

*  Collaborative child welfare practice

*  Recasting resistance: Engaging reluctant families

*  Assessment as intervention: Building resourcefulness while examining difficulties

*  Collaborative approaches to proactive treatment planning

*  Asking questions that change lives

*  Helping families build communities to sustain positive change

*  Invitations to responsibility: Working with people who have been abusive and violent

*  Collaborating with families in crisis situations

*  Building a resilient organization to manage the effects of working with trauma

*  Facilitating difficult conversations with staff and families

*  Teaming with families and colleagues

*  Managing risk and uncertainty in child welfare decision-making

*  Sustaining collaborative practice in the “real world”

*  Strength-based supervision to support family-centered practice

*  Reflective leadership in community agencies

*  Outcome measurement: Measuring what is valuable vs. valuing what is measurable   


For more information about training possibilities that might be customized to your particular context and needs, please contact us.