The Butte College Foster/Kinship Care Education Program strives to provide support for foster parents, kinship care providers and other members of the community to help them meet the changing and increasingly challenging needs of youth and families through many diverse types of workshops.
The Butte College Foster/Kinship Care Education Program provides to any member of the community diverse education to benefit those working with children, teens and families. Workshops are provided all year round, and include ongoing weekly meetings as well as intensive two-day workshops. Some of the workshops offered include Foster Parenting Pre-Service, Nurturing Parenting, Positive Discipline, Active Parenting of Teens, Six Core Strengths for Healthy Childhood Development and Developing Capable Young People. Topic specific workshops are also offered to support families and other adults who work with youth.
The Butte College Foster/Kinship Care Education Program provides a "Training Evaluation" at the conclusion of each one-day, two-day, six-week and ten-week series. Trainers are Aministrators review the "Training Evaluation" forms always looking for ways to make imporvements in future workshops.
Outcome: Successful application of strategies to support positive child development
Target Students: Parents/Child Caregivers
What behaviors do students demonstrate when outcome is achhieved?
Students will expand their knowledge of the developmental needs of children.
Students will recognize the effects of their thoughts, feelings and actions on the behavior of their children.
Students will be able to recognize factors that lead to misbehavior in children.
Students will know how to reduce frustration and stress in their homes.
Students will be able to respond to their children with appropriate expectations, limits and effective responses to misbehavior.
Current interventions in dept. that relate to the outcome:
Multiple parent education and child development curriculum.
Multi-media trainings.
Experiential exercises, role play, journaling, pre-post testing.
Outcome: Successful Family Life
Target Students: Parents/Child Caregivers
What behaviors do students demonstrate when outcome achieved?
Students will gain awareness of how to establish safety and security for the family.
Students will gain emotional competence by learning intrapersonal and interpersonal skills to support personal and family management.
Students will broaden their ability to effectively communicate needs and wants.
Students will gain awareness of their role as “first teachers” of their children.
Students will learn how to access resources in times of need.
Current interventions in dept. that relate to the outcome:
Multiple parent education and child development curriculum.
Multi-media trainings.
Experiential exercises, role play, journaling, pre-post testing.
Outcome: Effective use of community resources for families and children
Target Students: Parents/Child Caregivers
What behaviors do students demonstrate when outcome is achieved?
Students will gain greater awareness of a variety of community resources that support children and families.
Students will learn how to expand their family’s support network.
Students will learn how to access basic need resources for children, including educational support services.
Students will expand their awareness of health and recreation activities for family fun and social connection.
Current Interventions in dept. that relate to the outcome:
Training discussions
Resource Tables
Handout materials
Caregiver self-care training
Outcome: Promotion of high family value for education
Target Students: Parents/Child Caregivers
What behaviors do students demonstrate when outcome is achieved?
Students will gain awareness of their role as “first teachers” of their children.
Students will model and promote reading in the home.
Students will ensure regular school attendance for their children.
Students will gain skill in learning to communicate effectively with school personnel if problem behaviors arise in children.
Students will learn how to support their children’s rights to an educational assessment for special needs.
Students will learn barriers to effective educational development and best practices to ensure educational development.
Current interventions in dept. that relate to the outcome:
Curriculum updates
Class discussions
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Goal Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty, and Staff Success
3. Using Data-Informed Processes for Continuous Improvement
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
5. Modeling Sustainability
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness
Motto: The More We Know, the More They Grow. Mission: The Foster/Kinship Care Education Program provides quality education and support opportunities for care givers of children and youth in out-of-home care so that these providers may meet the educational, emotional, and behavioral and development needs of children and youth.
Guiding values:
1. Children/youth feel they belong to families that are strong, safe, and nurturing.
2. There is consistency in care.
3. Care providers are qualified, caring and knowledgeable.
4. Care providers are retained.
5. Care providers are linked to and collaborate with community support services.
6. There is permanecy that is in the best interest of the child.
Strategy 1 - Community Collaboration
None.
Categorical Funding: $311,151